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Holy Ghosts: Or How a (Not-So) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things That Go Bump in the Night

by Gary Jansen

Published: 2010-09-16

Hardcover: 224 pages

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In this extraordinary true story, the haunting of a Long Island household forces a respected writer and editor to reevaluate the mysteries of life and death as he struggles with the frightening truths of his childhood home and his town's past. Growing up in Rockville Centre, Long Island...

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Holy Hunger

by Margaret Bullitt-Jonas

Published: 2000-10-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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The compelling story of a young woman's recovery from a privileged yet painful childhood and away from the cravings that came to control her life. In public, Margaret Bullitt-Jonas was a superachiever--a stellar graduate student at Harvard and a dutiful daughter in a distinguished family. ...

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Holy Rollers

by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Published: 2014-05-27

Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages

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From #1 Essence bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, a touching and funny story of faith, love, and tenacious friendship.Lifelong friends Coco, Nita, and Tia are fed up with their bad luck in love. The beautiful and demure Coco has endured years of physical abuse from her boyfrien...

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Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind

by Gene Logsdon

Published: 2010-08-30

Paperback: 272 pages

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In his insightful new book, Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure-our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource. He begins by lamenting a modern society that not only throws away both animal and human manure-wo...

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The Holy Thief: A Novel

by William Ryan

Published: 2010-08-31

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Moscow, 1936, and Stalin's Great Terror is beginning. In a deconsecrated church, a young woman is found dead, her mutilated body displayed on the altar for all to see. Captain Alexei Korolev, finally beginning to enjoy the benefits of his success with the Criminal Investigation Division of...

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Home

by Toni Morrison

Published: 2012-05-08

Hardcover: 160 pages

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America's most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.Frank Money is an angry, self-lo...

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Home (Vintage International)

by Toni Morrison

Published: 2013-01-01

Paperback: 145 pages

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A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable Work of FictionA Best Book of the Year: NPR, AV Club, St. Louis DispatchWhen Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, his shattered life has ...

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Home Again: A Novel

by Kristin Hannah

Published: 1996-10-30

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

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At the center of Home Again is Madelaine, a brilliant cardiologist, a loving mother, a tender friend, a woman full of self-doubt. It is the story of her daughter, Lina, a confused and angry rebel and of the two very different men Madelaine loves: Francis, a priest searching for his faith, ...

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A Home at the End of the World. Michael Cunningham

by Michael Cunningham

Published: 2012-03

Paperback: 352 pages

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'It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm blue-green whirl. New York wasn't open to the hopelessness and lost purpose that drifted around lesser places ...' Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three...

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A Home at the End of the World: A Novel

by Michael Cunningham

Published: 1998-11-15

Paperback: 352 pages

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From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his r...