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The Reluctant Midwife: A Hope River Novel

by Patricia Harman

Published: 2015-03-03

Paperback: 432 pages

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The USA Today bestselling author of The Midwife of Hope River returns with a heartfelt sequel, a novel teeming with life and full of humor and warmth, one that celebrates the human spirit.The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry ch...

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A Year After Henry: A Novel

by Cathie Pelletier

Published: 2014-08-05

Paperback: 272 pages

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"Nobody walks the knife-edge of hilarity and heartbreak more confidently than Pelletier."—Richard RussoIn her exquisite new novel, acclaimed author Cathie Pelletier presents a witty and refreshingly candid portrait of grief, intergenerational conflict, and the impact one person can have ...

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The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men

by Michael Gurian

Published: 2000-08-07

Paperback: 416 pages

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Selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 1999, The Good Son is the definitive guide to the moral and emotional development of our boys and young men. Within its pages, Michael Gurian widely credited as the founder of today's "boys movement" takes readers through a comple...

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Busting Bad Guys: My True Crime Stories of Bookies, Drug Dealers and Ladies of the Night

by Mark Langan

Published: 2014-02-03

Paperback: 328 pages

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13 seconds of pure terror in a shootout with a drug dealer... Real crime. Real-life cop stories. In his gripping memoir of, Sergeant Mark Langan relives his front-row seat working the seamier side of crime during his decorated twenty-six-year career from youngest rookie in 1978 to narcotic...

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Of Windmills and War

by Diane H Moody

Published: 2012-11-30

Paperback: 598 pages

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An Amazon Top 100 Bestseller with 50,000 copies sold and over 1,200 "Five Star" reviews.The rumblings of war in distant countries mattered little to Danny McClain.  Growing up in Chicago, his world revolved around after-school jobs, a rescued beagle, his pen pal in Holland, and the Cubs' ...

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The Splendour Falls

by Susanna Kearsley

Published: 2014-01-14

Paperback: 384 pages

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Praise for New York Times bestseller The Firebird: "Kearsley blends history, romance and a bit of the supernatural into a glittering, bewitching tale."?Kirkus An Ancient Castle, a Tragic Love, and a Web of Secrets Begins to Unravel... Emily Braden has stopped believing in fairy tales and h...

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Upstairs at the White House: My Life With the First Ladies

by J. B. West, Mary Lynn Kotz

Published: 1973

Hardcover: 381 pages

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A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at life on Pennsylvania Avenue with America's first families, by the man who spent nearly three decades in their midst.J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?and coordinated its da...

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Funny Girl: A Novel

by Nick Hornby

Published: 2015-02-03

Hardcover: 464 pages

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From the bestselling author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down comes a highly anticipated new novel. Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingé...

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North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

by Cea Sunrise Person

Published: 2014-06-24

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person’s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness—a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival.In the late ...

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Sister Golden Hair: A Novel

by Darcey Steinke

Published: 2014-10-14

Paperback: 336 pages

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When Jesse’s family moves to Roanoke, Virginia, in the summer of 1972, she’s 12 years old and already mindful of the schism between innocence and femininity, the gap between childhood and the adult world. Her father, a former pastor, cycles through spiritual disciplines as quickly as h...