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Heaven's Child: A true story of family, friends, and strangers

by Caroline Flohr

Published: 2014-01-22

Kindle Edition: 176 pages

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“A pointed, intelligently told story of a family accepting loss gracefully. Such a book on one’s nightstand, particularly if one is in the midst of the grieving process, could offer solace in a way that fiction never could.” – Kirkus Review “A memoir of hope and serenity, of a...

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Flight of the Dragonfly

by Melissa Hawach

Published: 2010-03-01

Kindle Edition: 320 pages

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Gripping and clear eyed, this is the inside story of a choice no parent should have to make. It was a case which made international headlines in 2006: two small girls, Cedar, 3 and Hannah, 5, were abducted by their Lebanese-Australian father, Joe, and flown into Lebanon in the middle of a war. Their...

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No-No Boy (Classics of Asian American Literature)

by John Okada

Published: 1978-02-01

Paperback: 264 pages

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" No-No Boy has the honor of being the very first Japanese American novel," writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword to John Okada’s classic of Asian American literature. First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanes...

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The Tiger Rising

by Kate DiCamillo

Published: 2002-07-01

Paperback: 128 pages

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The National Book Award finalist from the best-selling author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE - now in paperback Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger - a real-life, very large tiger - pacing back and forth in a cage. What�...

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Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of The World

by Pico Iyer

Published: 1994-04-26

Paperback: 208 pages

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The author of Video Night in Kathmandu ups the ante on himself in this sublimely evocative and acerbically funny tour through the world's loneliest and most eccentric places. From Iceland to Bhutan to Argentina, Iyer remains both uncannily observant and hilarious.

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The Secret Speech (The Child 44 Trilogy)

by Tom Rob Smith

Published: 2010-05-03

Paperback: 440 pages

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Tom Rob Smith-the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called "brilliant" (Chicago Tribune), "remarkable" (Newsweek) and "sensational" (Entertainment Weekly)-returns with an intense, suspenseful new novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families...

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Goodbye Sarajevo

by Atka Reid, Hana Schofield

Published: 2012-04-10

Paperback: 352 pages

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A moving and compelling true story about two sisters fighting for survival in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war.

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The Wallcreeper

by Nell Zink

Published: 2014-10-01

Paperback: 200 pages

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Fiction. "Who is Nell Zink? She claims to be an expatriate living in northeast Germany. Maybe she is; maybe she isn't. I don't know. I do know that this first novel arrives with a voice that is fully formed: mature, hilarious, terrifyingly intelligent, and wicked. The novel is about a bird...

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Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold

by Mark Schultz, David Thomas

Published: 2014-11-18

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The riveting true story?soon to be the subject of a high-profile film?of Olympic wrestling gold medal-winning brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and their fatal relationship with the eccentric John du Pont, heir to the du Pont dynasty On January 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, Olympic g...

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Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou

by Maya Angelou

Published: 2014-10-28

Hardcover: 128 pages

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“Words mean more than what is set down on paper,” Maya Angelou wrote in her groundbreaking memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Indeed, Angelou’s words have traveled the world and transformed lives—inspiring, strengthening, healing. Through a long and prolific career in letters,...