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Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom

by John Hollway, Ronald M. Gauthier

Published: 2010-05-18

Hardcover: 496 pages

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The wrongful conviction of an innocent death row inmate and his fight for exoneration. In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola Prison and confined to his cell for twenty-three hour...

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The Killing Tree: A Novel

by Rachel Keener

Published: 2009-03-18

Paperback: 324 pages

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It's the summer after Mercy Heron graduates from high school, and she's living in the household of her domineering grandfather and a grandmother whose behavior has always been erratic--some folks even call it crazy. They've raised Mercy since her mother died giving birth to her under the J...

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The Killings at Badger's Drift (Inspector Barnaby Mysteries)

by Caroline Graham

Published: 2005-06

Paperback: 252 pages

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Kim (Aula de Literatura)

by Rudyard Kipling

Published: 2005-02-17

Paperback: 448 pages

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When his father, a soldier stationed in India, dies suddenly, young Kimball O'Hara is left to fend for himself on the streets of Lahore. A proper English lad, Kim is plunged into an exotic and unfamiliar world of crowded bazaars and noisy markets, gilded temples, sahibs and fakirs, beggars, whirling...

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Kim (Penguin Classics)

by Rudyard Kipling

Published: 1987-09-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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When his father, a soldier stationed in India, dies suddenly, young Kimball O'Hara is left to fend for himself on the streets of Lahore. A proper English lad, Kim is plunged into an exotic and unfamiliar world of crowded bazaars and noisy markets, gilded temples, sahibs and fakirs, beggars, whirling...

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Kim: Illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling

by Rudyard Kipling

Published: 2010-04-25

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Kim is an orphan boy in India in the late 1800s. He becomes involved in an old Lama's search for a sacred river, and in a British spy ring, playing the "Great Game".This text of this edition is taken from the 1937 ?Sussex? edition, which contained the last corrections and revisions to the ...

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The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You

by Dorothy Bryant

Published: 1997-03-25

Paperback: 228 pages

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art love story, part utopian fantasy, part spiritual fable, The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You is "a beautiful, symbolic journey of the soul" (Berkeley Monthly). Into the world of the Ata comes a desperate man, running from a fast life of fame and fortune, drugs and crime. He is led by the kin of Ata...

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The Kindness of Strangers

by Katrina Kittle

Published: 2013-04-23

Kindle Edition: 402 pages

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On a quiet street in the suburban Midwest, a popular, seemingly stable family keeps a terrible, dark secret behind closed doors -- a secret that will have life-changing consequences for all who know themSarah Laden, a young widow and mother of two, struggles to keep her family together. Si...

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The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America

by Mike McIntyre

Published: 2014-03-02

Paperback: 260 pages

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A Wall Street Journal bestseller."Could you survive a cross-country trip relying only on the kindness of strangers? Well, Mike McIntyre did. He put our country to the test, and what he found out sure surprised me."--Oprah Winfrey Stuck in a job he no longer found fulfilling, journalist Mik...

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Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

Published: 2003

Paperback: 264 pages

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The visionary authorâ??s masterpiece pulls usâ??along with her Black female heroâ??through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her ...