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How Angel Peterson Got His Name

by Gary Paulsen

Published: 2004-08-10

Paperback: 128 pages

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WHEN YOU GROW up in a small town in the north woods, you have to make your own excitement. High spirits, idiocy, and showing off for the girls inspire Gary Paulsen and his friends to attempt:• Shooting waterfalls in a barrel• The first skateboarding• Breaking the world record for spe...

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Cockroaches: The Second Inspector Harry Hole Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original)

by Jo Nesbo

Published: 2014-02-11

Paperback: 384 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhen the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something...

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Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee--A Look Inside North Korea

by Jang Jin-sung

Published: 2014-05-13

Hardcover: 368 pages

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In this rare insider’s view into contemporary North Korea, a high-ranking counterintelligence agent describes his life as a former poet laureate to Kim Jong-il and his breathtaking escape to freedom.“The General will now enter the room.”Everyone turns to stone. Not moving my head, I...

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See Jane Run

by Joy Fielding

Published: 1992-09-01

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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Jane Whittaker has awakened to a nightmare. She doesn't know her name, her age . . .or even what she looks like. Frightened and confused, she wanders the streets of Boston wearing a blood-soaked dress-and carrying $10,000 in her pocket. Her life has become a vacuum--her past vanished. . .o...

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Bleak House (Penguin Classics)

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2003-04-29

Paperback: 1036 pages

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Charles Dickens's masterful assault on the injustices of the British legal systemAs the interminable case of 'Jarndyce and Jarndyce' grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devo...

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The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness

by Eric Lomax

Published: 2014-04-11

Paperback: 288 pages

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Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman. The Railway Man is a remarkable memoir of forgiveness—a tremendous testament to the courage that propels one toward remembrance, and finally, peace with the past. Eric Lomax, sent to Malaya in World War II, was taken pris...

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Out of Warranty

by Haywood Smith

Published: 2013-01-22

Hardcover: 384 pages

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If you’ve ever struggled with a health insurance claim, you’ll love Haywood Smith’s witty send-up of the health insurance industry, the drug companies, the medical profession, and falling apart ten years before Medicare. From the beloved author of The Red Hat Club and Wife-in-Law, Ou...

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Last Night at the Blue Angel: A Novel

by Rebecca Rotert

Published: 2014-07-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s Chicago jazz scene, a highly ambitious and stylish literary debut that combines the atmosphere and period detail of Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility with the emotional depth and drama of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, about a talented but troubled...

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The Second Chance Café (A Hope Springs Novel)

by Alison Kent

Published: 2013-03-05

Paperback: 358 pages

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Growing up, Kaylie Flynn was shuffled from foster home to foster home before being welcomed into Winton and May Wise’s family. It was May who taught Kaylie the comfort of home, and the healing power of baking the perfect brownie. Years later, May leaves Kaylie the money she needs to open...

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Bruiser

by Neal Shusterman

Published: 2011-10-04

Paperback: 352 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman delivers a suspenseful and thrilling novel that's perfect for fans of Unwind and UnWholly.Tennyson is not surprised, really, when his family begins to fall apart, or when his twin sister, Brontë, starts dating the misunderstood bully, Brew...