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The Distance Between Us

by Reyna Grande

Published: 2012-08-28

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Mago pointed to a spot on the dirt floor and reminded me that my umbilical cord was buried there. ?That way,? Mami told the midwife, ?no matter where life takes her, she won?t ever forget where she came from.? Then Mago touched my belly button . . . She said that my umbilical cord was like...

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The Distant Echo

by Val McDermid

Published: 2004-10-17

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It was a winter morning in 1978, that the body of a young barmaid was discovered in the snow banks of a Scottish cemetery. The only suspects in her brutal murder were the four young men who found her: Alex Gilbey and his three best friends. With no evidence but her blood on their hands, no...

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The Distant Hours: A Novel

by Kate Morton

Published: 2010-11-09

Hardcover: 576 pages

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A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the Blythe spinsters live and where her mother was billeted 50 years before as a 13 year old child during WW II. The elder Blythe sisters are tw...

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Distant Land of My Father, The

by Bo Caldwell

Published: 2002

Paperback: 384 pages

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A Distant Melody (Wings of Glory Book #1): A Novel

by Sarah Sundin

Published: 2010-03-01

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Never pretty enough to please her gorgeous mother, Allie will do anything to gain her approval--even marry a man she doesn't love. Lt. Walter Novak--fearless in the cockpit but hopeless with women--takes his last furlough at home in California before being shipped overseas. Walt and Allie ...

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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Published: 1987-07-12

Paperback: 784 pages

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"Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . A great book, in a great historical tradition." CommentaryThe 14th century gives us back two contradictory images: a glittering time of crusades and castles, cathedrals and chivalry, and a dark time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world plunged into a c...

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Distant Shores

by Kristin Hannah

Published: 2002-01-29

Mass Market Paperback: 342 pages

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In her remarkable New York Times bestseller, Summer Island, Kristin Hannah struck a chord in readers and critics alike with her portrayal of the bittersweet reunion between an errant mother and her unforgiving daughter. Now Hannah once again reveals the fragile ties that bind a family in t...

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Distant Waves: A Novel of the Titanic

by Suzanne Weyn

Published: 2009-04-15

Hardcover: 336 pages

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From the author of REINCARNATION, another historical, supernatural romance, this time focusing on five sisters whose lives are intertwined with the sinking of the Titanic.Science, spiritualism, history, and romance intertwine in Suzanne Weyn's newest novel. Four sisters and their mother ma...

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The Distinguished Guest

by Sue Miller

Published: 1999-02-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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The moving story of a mother and son that touches the deepest concerns about love, art, family, and life Lily Maynard is proud, chilly, difficult, and has become a famous writer at age seventy-two. Now, stricken with Parkinson's disease and staying with her architect son Alan, Lily must c...

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Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age

by Maggie Jackson

Published: 2008-06-04

Hardcover: 327 pages

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Foreword by Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and The Bill McKibben Reader We have vast oceans of information at our disposal, yet increasingly we seek knowledge with brief glimpses at online headlines while juggling other tasks. We are networked as never before, but we communica...