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Lift

by Kelly Corrigan

Published: 2010-03-02

Hardcover: 89 pages

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No matter when and why this comes to your hands, I want to put down on paper how things started with us. Written as a letter to her children, Kelly Corrigan's Lift is a tender, intimate, and robust portrait of risk and love; a touchstone for anyone who wants to live more fully. In Lift, Co...

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Light A Penny Candle

by Maeve Binchy

Published: 2007-11-06

Paperback: 592 pages

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As a child, Elizabeth White was sent from her war-torn London home to a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It was there, in the crowded, chaotic O'Connor household, that she met Aisling-who would become her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her th...

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A Light at Winter's End

by Julia London

Published: 2011-02-22

Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages

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Holly Fisher opens her door one day and finds her estranged sister Hannah standing there with a glassy look and her nine-month old baby on her hip.  Before Holly knows what is happening, Hannah has left her baby with Holly and disappeared.  Three months later, fresh out of rehab for addi...

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The Light Bearer

by Donna Gillespie

Published: 1994

Paperback: 768 pages

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The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

by M. L. Stedman

Published: 2012-07-31

Hardcover: 345 pages

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The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg’s Dreamworks that is “irresistible…seductive…with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page” (O, The Oprah Magazine).After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom...

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Light Fell

by Evan Fallenberg

Published: 2009-01-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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“ Touching. . . . It raises brave questions about the nature of family and betrayal, rupture and healing.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A stirring exploration of obsession, spirituality and the healing power of time. . . . Light Fell is an astonishingly accomplished first novel, wisel...

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Light in August

by W. Faulkner

Published: 2000-10-05

Paperback: 381 pages

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A landmark in American fiction, "Light in August" explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable...

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Light in August (The Corrected Text)

by William Faulkner

Published: 1990-10-01

Paperback: 0 pages

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“Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.” —Willi...

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A Light in the Attic (20th Anniversary Edition Book & CD)

by Shel Silverstein

Published: 2001-10-01

Hardcover: 176 pages

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Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song:Whatif I flunk that test?Whatif green hair grows on my chest?Whatif nobody likes me?Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?...To celebrate its 2...

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Light in the Dark Ages: The Friendship of Francis and Clare of Assisi

by Jon M. Sweeney

Published: 2007-07-12

Paperback: 204 pages

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The Middle Ages were not so very dark, as the old textbooks say. As you will discover in this intriguing portrait of the first Franciscans, we live in dark ages whenever we become preoccupied with power. In this popular history, Jon Sweeney reveals the timeless temptations that come wit...