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Stranger Things

by Erin Healy

Published: 2013-12-31

Paperback: 368 pages

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In the burnt-out hollow, a house of dark secrets and an eerie beauty beckon. Serena Diaz’s life is imploding. A troubled student has accused the young biology teacher of sexual misconduct, cutting off her promising career just as it was starting to blossom. But that’s just the beginni...

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Dracula: Complete, Original Text (Forgotten Books)

by Bram Stoker

Published: 2007-11-07

Paperback: 397 pages

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Book Description: "The very first appearance of "Count Dracula" is in Bram Stoker's novel DRACULA (1897). But Stoker did not make up the name "Dracula". There was a Dracula in the 15th century: Vlad the Impaler. Stoker didn't know much about him... but he came across his name in a book he ...

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Brooklyn NY: A Grim Retrospective: A Memoir

by Jerry Castaldo

Published: 2012-04-18

Paperback: 228 pages

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This explosive autobiographical volume is a gripping account of entertainer Jerry Castaldo growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn, NY, his agonizing descent into the darkness of the city's underbelly and his desperate struggle back to normalcy.Celebrated NY Post columnist, author and p...

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The Valley Of Decision

by Marcia Davenport

Published: 1989-07-28

Paperback: 640 pages

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On the eve of World War II  writer Marcia Davenport, best known for her biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, spent several years in Pittsburgh, her imagination caught by the drama of American industry.  In 1942, Charles Scribner’s sons published her Pittsburgh novel, The Valley of Dec...

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Black Beauty (Signet Classics)

by Anna Sewell

Published: 2011-01-04

Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages

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One of the best loved animal stories ever written, the dramatic and heartwarming Black Beauty is told by the magnificent horse himself, from his idyllic days on a country squire's estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse. No one can ever forget the gallant Black Beauty, a horse with ...

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Dead End in Norvelt

by Jack Gantos

Published: 2013-05-07

Paperback: 384 pages

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Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year’s best contribution to children’s literature and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months ...

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Beggars in Spain (Beggars Trilogy)

by Nancy Kress

Published: 1994-03-01

Paperback: 0 pages

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Born in 2008, Leisha Camden is beautiful, extraordinarily intelligent . . . and one of an ever-growing number of human beings who have been genetically modified to never require sleep.Once she and "her kind" were considered interesting anomalies. Now they are outcasts -- victims of blind h...

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Run, Brother, Run: A Memoir of a Murder in My Family

by David Berg

Published: 2013-06-11

Hardcover: 272 pages

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A searing family memoir of a tempestuous Texas boyhood that led to the vicious murder of the author’s brother As William Faulkner said, “The past is not dead, it’s not even past.” This observation seems especially true in matters of family, when the fury between generations is ofte...

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American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

by Steven Rinella

Published: 2009-09-15

Paperback: 304 pages

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From the host of the Travel Channel’s “The Wild Within.”A hunt for the American buffalo—an adventurous, fascinating examination of an animal that has haunted the American imagination. In 2005, Steven Rinella won a lottery permit to hunt for a wild buffalo, or American bison, in th...

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I Will Lead You Along: The Life of Henry B. Eyring

by Robert I. Eaton; Henry J. Eyring

Published: 2013

Hardcover: 640 pages

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Henry Bennion Eyring was born on May 31, 1933, in Princeton, New Jersey, bearing the first name of his father, who was fast building a reputation as a brilliant scientist, and the family name of his mother, who didn't care for the name "Henry" and insisted that he be called Hal. In 1970, Hal received...