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Running From Mercy

by Terra Little

Published: 2008-01-01

Paperback: 318 pages

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Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

by Richard Bach

Published: 1995-11-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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A half-mile up, suspended by nylon wings and the promise of good lift, life hanges on a pledge.  Richard Bach made that pledge, fifty years before, to return to the frightened child he used to be and teach him everything he had learned from living.  His promise went unfulfilled until o...

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Running In Heels: A Novel

by Anna Maxted

Published: 2002-06-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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"To say that Babs has been my closest friend for sixteen years is rather like saying that Einstein was good at sums. We were blood sisters from the age of eleven (before my mother prized the razor out of Babs's hand)."But now Babs, noisy and as fun as a day at the beach, is getting married...

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Running in the Family

by Michael Ondaatje

Published: 1993-11-30

Paperback: 208 pages

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In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative...

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Running Out of Time

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Published: 1997-02-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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Run For Your Life Jessie lives with her family in the frontier village of Clifton, Indiana, in 1840 -- or so she believes. When diphtheria strikes the village and the children of Clifton start dying, Jessie's mother reveals a shocking secret -- it's actually 1996, and they are living in a...

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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

by Avi Steinberg

Published: 2011-10-04

Paperback: 416 pages

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Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to attend Harvard, he has nothing but a senior thesis on Bugs Bunny to show for himself. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, Steinberg remains stuck at a crossroads, his “romantic” existence as a freelance obitua...

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* * * * Dramatic,
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Running the Rift

by Naomi Benaron

Published: 2012-01-17

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he is thrust into a world where it's i...

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Running Wild

by Michael Morpurgo

Paperback: 196 pages

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* * * Graphic,
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir

by Augusten Burroughs

Published: 2003-06-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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"Running with Scissors" is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. The funny, harrowing and bestselling account of an ordinary boy's survival under the...

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Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways

by Valerie Hemingway

Published: 2005-11-08

Paperback: 325 pages

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A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face to face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked into place. For the next two years, Valerie devoted her life to Hemingway and his wife, Ma...