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The Children's Book

by A.S. Byatt

Published: 2010-08-10

Paperback: 896 pages

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From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Possession: a deeply affecting story of a singular family. When children’s book author Olive Wellwood’s oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of a museum, she takes him into the storybook world of her...

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The Children's Hospital Guide to Your Child's Health and Development

by Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital Boston

Published: 2002-11

Paperback: 816 pages

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The Children's Story

by James Clavell

Published: 1989-11-02

Mass Market Paperback: 96 pages

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It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell?a talk with his young daughter just home from school?that inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes. He writes, "The Children's Story came into being that day. It was then that I reall...

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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)

by David Laskin

Published: 2005-10-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood no...

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A Child's Christmas in Wales

by Dylan Thomas

Published: 2009-11-01

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In print for fifty years, this gem of lyric prose has enchanted both young and old from its very first edition.Dylan Thomas, one of the greatest poets and storytellers of the twentieth century, captures a child's-eye view, and an adult's fond memories, of a magical time of presents, aunts ...

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Child's Play

by Deborah Wallis

Published: 2011-06-09

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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Eight-year-old Garrett Morrow disappears from a class field trip in New Bern, North Carolina. Within days, his body is found and seven-year-old Tyler Sullivan vanishes from Beaufort, South Carolina. Journalist Abby Weaver is at first puzzled by the striking resemblance between the two boys...

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Chili Con Corpses: A Supper Club Mystery

by J.B. Stanley

Published: 2008-01-01

Paperback: 275 pages

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They're in deep guacamole...When Lindy suggests the supper club members join a Mexican cooking class, the five friends jump at the idea. For James, the cervezas and black bean dip provide a welcome distraction from his relationship woes, since Lucy's romantic feelings for him have turned as frosty as...

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The Chili Queen

by Sandra Dallas

Published: 2003-09-10

Paperback: 304 pages

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Life may have been hard on Addie French, but when she meets friendless Emma Roby on a train, all her protective instincts emerge. Emma's brother is seeing her off to Nalgitas to marry a man she has never met. And Emma seems like a lost soul to Addie-someone who needs Addie's savvy and wary...

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Chill Factor: A Novel

by Sandra Brown

Published: 2005-08-16

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Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town -- the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there's always a blue ribbon left near the spot where each of the wo...

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Chill of Fear

by Kay Hooper

Published: 2006-06-27

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper turns up the heat even as she chills readers to the bone with a new suspense novel that distills the essence of fear itself. In this relentless thriller, two psychics put more than their lives on the line to stop a killer darker and more evil th...