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Crossing Over: One Woman's Escape from Amish Life

by Ruth Irene Garrett, Rick Farrant

Published: 2003-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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Ruth Irene Garrett was the fifth of seven children raised in Kalona, Iowa as a member of a strict Old Order Amish community. She was brought up with rigid rules and intense secrecy in a world where the dress, buggies, codes of conduct, and way of life differed from that of other Amish soci...

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* * * * Adventurous,
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The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway)

by Elly Griffiths

Published: 2010-01-05

Kindle Edition: 306 pages

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The first entry in the acclaimed Ruth Galloway series follows the "captivating"* archaeologist as she investigates a child's bones found on a nearby beach, thought to be the remains of a little girl who went missing ten years before.Forensic archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is in her late th...

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Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed

by Leslie Maitland

Published: 2012-04-17

Hardcover: 512 pages

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   On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry.  As the Lipari...

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Crossing The Gates Of Alaska

by Dave Metz

Published: 2010-02-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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The snow forms the beginning of a near vertical chute that falls at least a thousand feet. My feet, shaking, manage to hug the thin edge of solid rock. I feel my heart creep to my throat and warm sweat drip down my back, defying the subzero Arctic air. Somehow I reach a plateau and think t...

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* * * * * Romantic,
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Crossing the Tracks

by Barbara Stuber

Published: 2010-07-06

Hardcover: 258 pages

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At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts -- no home, no family, no direction. After her mother's early death, Iris's father focuses on big plans for his new shoe stores and his latest girlfriend, and has no time for his daughter. Unbeknownst to her, he hires Iris out as housekeeper and companio...

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Crossing to Safety

by Wallace Stegner

Published: 1988

Paperback: 341 pages

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one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.

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* * * Difficult,
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Crossing To Safety

by Wallace Stegner

Published: 1987

Paperback: 0 pages

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* * * * Insightful,
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Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics)

by Wallace Stegner

Published: 2007-12-18

Kindle Edition: 370 pages

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?Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins   ?Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the gre...

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Crossing with the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail

by Kathryn Ferguson, Norma A. Price, Ted Parks

Published: 2010-04-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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Over the past ten years, more than 4,000 people have died while crossing the Arizona desert to find jobs, join families, or start new lives. Other migrants tell of the corpses they pass?bodies that are never recovered or counted. Crossing With the Virgin collects stories heard from migrant...

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The Crossing

by Cormac McCarthy

Published: 1995-03-14

Unknown Binding: 426 pages

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In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth.In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old...