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Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy

by Carlos Eire

Published: 2010-11-02

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In his 2003 National Book Award?winning memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire narrated his coming of age in Cuba just before and during the Castro revolution. That book literally ends in midair as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother leave Havana on an airplane?along with ...

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Learning to Love: Sugar and SpiceLove by Degree

by Debbie Macomber

Published: 2011-11-22

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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Sugar and SpiceLibrarian Jayne Gilbert needs a man?a man she can bring to her high school reunion. She wants to prove to her former classmates that she isn't the lonely bookworm they predicted she'd become. So, naturally, Jayne turns to a book. It's called How to Pick Up a Man. And it work...

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Learning to Swim

by Trevor Hambric

Published: 2011-02-06

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Hannah Sullivan is not looking to have her beliefs challenged. She is not looking to fall in love, either. Her only ambition, when she and her daughter, Lily, take their first summer trip to New Hampshire’s Squam Lake, is a restful, scenic vacation. But she will soon learn that the world has another...

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Learning to Swim: A Novel

by Sara J Henry

Published: 2011-02-22

Hardcover: 304 pages

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"If I'd blinked, I would have missed it. But I didn't, and I saw something fall from the rear deck of the opposite ferry: a small, wide-eyed human face, in one tiny frozen moment, as it plummeted toward the water."When she witnesses a small child tumbling from a ferry into Lake Champlain,...

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Learning to Swim: A Novel

by Sara J. Henry

Published: 2011-02-22

Kindle Edition: 304 pages

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Winner of the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, the Agatha Award for Best First Novel, and the Mary Higgins Clark Award   When she sees what looks like a child tumbling from a ferry into frigid Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives in without thinking. When she gets the child to shore she...

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Leave It to Cleavage

by Wendy Wax

Published: 2004-08-03

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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Leaving Atlanta: A Novel

by Tayari Jones

Published: 2003-08-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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An award-winning author makes her fiction debut with this coming-of-age story of three young black children set against the backdrop of the Atlanta child murders of 1979.

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Leaving Before It's Over: A Novel

by Jean Reynolds Page

Published: 2010-08-10

Paperback: 368 pages

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From the author of The Space Between Before and After comes a compelling novel that explores the true meaning of family. When Roy Vines married his wife, Rosalind, he traded his family and his inheritance for love?a painful choice that has blessed them with years of joy nestled in rural...

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LEAVING CHEYENNE : A Novel

by Larry McMurtry

Published: 2002-08-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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My foot's in the stirrup, My pony won't stand; Goodbye, old partner, I'm leaving Cheyenne. -- Old cowboy song Leaving Cheyenne, Larry McMurtry's second novel, traces the loves of three West Texas characters as they follow that sundown trail: Gideon Fry, the serious rancher; Johnny McClo...

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Leaving Church

by Barbara Brown Taylor

Published: 2009-10-13

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By now I expected to be a seasoned parish minister, wearing black clergy shirts grown gray from frequent washing. I expected to love the children who hung on my legs after Sunday morning services until they grew up and had children of their own. I even expected to be buried wearing the sam...