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Spider Woman's Daughter: A Leaphorn & Chee Novel

by Anne Hillerman

Published: 2014-06-24

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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Anne Hillerman, the talented daughter of bestselling author Tony Hillerman, continues his popular Leaphorn and Chee series with Spider Woman’s Daughter, a Navajo Country mystery, filled with captivating lore, startling suspense, bold new characters, vivid color, and rich Southwestern atm...

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An Officer and a Spy

by Robert Harris

Published: 2014-10-28

Paperback: 429 pages

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A whistle-blower.  A witch hunt. A cover-up. Secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government corruption. Welcome to 1890s Paris. Alfred Dreyfus has been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment on a far-off island, and publicly stri...

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The Christmas Diary

by Elyse Douglas

Published: 2013-06-14

Paperback: 284 pages

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A young woman, traveling to meet her wealthy fiancé for a Christmas wedding, loses her way in a snowstorm and is stranded at a Bed & Breakfast. In her room, she finds an old diary written by a man who had once owned the house 15 years ago. Moved by what she reads, she sets off on a journey to learn...

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The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine

by Francis S. Collins

Published: 2011-01-18

Paperback: 368 pages

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"His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease.” —Barack Obama From Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of Health, 2007 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and 15-year head of the Human Genome Project, comes...

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If I Die in Juárez (Camino del Sol)

by Stella Pope Duarte

Published: 2008-03-27

Paperback: 352 pages

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From the red-light districts in Ciudad Juárez to remote villages hidden away in the mountains of Chihuahua comes a tale of one of the darkest crimes to be recorded in the history of humankind. If I Die in Juárez traces the lives of three young women—Evita, a street child; Petra, a maqu...

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Astonished: A Story of Healing and Finding Grace

by Beverly Donofrio

Published: 2014-02-25

Paperback: 240 pages

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?A narrative composed of brutal honesty, tenderness, and an aching love for God. I could not put it down.” ?Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees In the middle of her life, acclaimed memoirist Beverly Donofrio thought she’d found a safe haven in a beautiful town in M...

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The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe

by Peter Godwin

Published: 2011-10-12

Paperback: 400 pages

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In 2008, memoirist and journalist Peter Godwin secretly returned to his native Zimbabwe after its notoriously tyrannical leader, Robert Mugabe, lost an election. The decision was severely risky--foreign journalists had been banned to prevent the world from seeing a corrupt leader's refusal...

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Gabby: A Story of Courage, Love and Resilience

by Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly

Published: 2012-10-09

Paperback: 336 pages

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Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly’s story is a reminder of the power of true grit, the patience needed to navigate unimaginable obstacles, and the transcendence of love. Their arrival in the world spotlight came under the worst of circumstances. On January 8, 2011, while meeting with her...

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All New People

by Anne Lamott

Published: 1999-12-17

Paperback: 166 pages

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With generosity, humor, and pathos, Anne Lamott takes on the barrage of dislocating changes that shook the Sixties. Leading us through the wake of these changes is Nanny Goodman, one small girl living in Marin County, California.. With generosity, humor, and pathos, Anne Lamott takes on the barrage...

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Joe Jones: A Novel

by Anne Lamott

Published: 2003-08-05

Paperback: 272 pages

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"If love is details, so is storytelling, and Anne Lamott excels at it. Her way with analogy, metaphor, and evocative detail is subtle; her ability to shift from the specific to the general to the specific again, superb."?The NationJoe Jones is Anne Lamott’s raucous novel of lives gathere...