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Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

by Denise Kiernan, Joseph D'Agnese

Published: 2009-05-01

Hardcover: 256 pages

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In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men risked their lives and livelihood to defy King George III and sign the Declaration of Independence--yet how many of them do we actually remember?Signing Their Lives Away introduces readers to the eclectic group of statesmen, soldiers, slaveholders, and...

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* * * * Informative,
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Signora da Vinci

by Robin Maxwell

Published: 2009-01-06

Paperback: 448 pages

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I have to admit I worried about leaving England and Ireland behind after writing six Elizabethan and Tudor novels, but I'm happy to report a soft landing in Renaissance Italy. Well, perhaps “soft” doesn't properly describe the brilliant, bloody cauldron of fifteenth century Florence… or my protagonists...

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Signs in the Blood

by Vicki Lane

Published: 2005-05-31

Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages

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Elizabeth Goodweather and her husband built a rewarding life in the hills and hollows of their adopted Appalachian home. But now Elizabeth is alone, her husband tragically killed, her children grown, the land around her filled with customs and beliefs she cannot share. It’s still a goo...

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Signs of Life

by Natalie Taylor

Published: 2012-03-15

Paperback: 308 pages

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* * * * Informative,
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Signs of Life: A Memoir

by Natalie Taylor

Published: 2011-04-12

Hardcover: 320 pages

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?I know. I know. No one says it but I know?? ?from Signs of Life Twenty-four-year-old Natalie Taylor was leading a charmed life. At the age of twenty four, she had a fulfilling job as a high school English teacher, a wonderful husband, a new house and a baby on the way.  Then, while visi...

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Sikander

by M. Salahuddin Khan

Published: 2010-12-15

Hardcover: 586 pages

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"SIKANDER is the sweeping tale of the son of a Pakistani middle-class family.It's 1986. Seventeen-year-old Sikander, dreams of studying and living in America, but in a blind rage after a family quarrel, he leaves his Peshawar, Pakistan home. Encountering mujahideen warriors, he joins them ...

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Silas Marner

by George Eliot

Published: 2014-05-21

Paperback: 124 pages

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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen weaver, it is notable for its strong realism and its sophisticated treatment of a variety of issues ranging from religion to industrialisation to community. The novel is set...

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Silas Marner (Penguin Classics)

by George Eliot

Published: 2003-04-29

Paperback: 240 pages

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George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics. Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives...

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* * * * Persuasive,
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Silas Marner (Signet Classics)

by George Eliot

Published: 2007-08-07

Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages

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A gentle linen weaver is accused of a heinous crime. Exiling himself, he becomes a recluse, only to find redemption in his love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears one day in his isolated cottage. Somber yet hopeful, Eliot's stirring tale continues to touch the human spirit.

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* * * * * Adventurous,
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Silence (Hush, Hush Saga)

by Becca Fitzpatrick

Published: 2011-10-04

Hardcover: 448 pages

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The noise between Patch and Nora is gone. They've overcome the secrets riddled in Patch's dark past...bridged two irreconcilable worlds...faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal, loyalty and trust...and all for a love that will transcend the boundary between heaven and earth. Armed with no...