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This House is Haunted

by John Boyne

Published: 2013-10-08

Paperback: 304 pages

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Written in Dickensian prose, This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occu...

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The Star of Istanbul: A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller

by Robert Olen Butler

Published: 2014-10-21

Paperback: 384 pages

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In the second book in Robert Olen Butler’s Christopher Marlowe Cobb series, The Star of Istanbul is a classic tale of adventure, romance, and war. World War I is in full swing, and foreign correspondent ?Kit” Cobb has been tasked with following a German intellectual and possible secret...

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Big Little Lies: by Liane Moriarty -- Sidekick

by Lauren Krouse

Published: 2014-10-02

Kindle Edition: 49 pages

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Big Little Lies: by Liane Moriarty -- Sidekick Hang Out A Little Longer With The Characters And Stories You Love Most Notice: This is an independent companion to Big Little Lies, meant to enhance your experience of the novel. If you have not yet bought Big Little Lies, make sure to p...

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Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty - A 30-minute Instaread Summary

by Instaread Summaries

Published: 2014-09-05

Paperback: 58 pages

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PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary of the book and NOT the original book. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty - A 30-minute Instaread Summary Inside this Instaread Summary:Overview of the entire bookIntroduction to the Important people in the bookSummary and analysis of all the chapters in t...

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Napoleon: A Life

by Andrew Roberts

Published: 2014-11-04

Hardcover: 976 pages

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The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon   Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greate...

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* * * * Optimistic,
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The Life Intended

by Kristin Harmel

Published: 2014-12-30

Paperback: 368 pages

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Sliding Doors meets P.S. I Love You in this richly told novel from the author of The Sweetness of Forgetting about the struggle to overcome the past when our memories refuse to be forgotten.After her husband’s sudden death over ten years ago, Kate Waithman never expected to be lucky enou...

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Nobody Is Ever Missing: A Novel

by Catherine Lacey

Published: 2014-07-08

Paperback: 256 pages

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Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the ...

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The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)

by Pico Iyer

Published: 2014-11-04

Hardcover: 96 pages

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A follow up to Pico Iyer’s essay “The Joy of Quiet,” The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who h...

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Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution

by Doug Fine

Published: 2014-03-28

Paperback: 192 pages

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The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet’s strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it’s been illegal to grow industrial cannabis in the...

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I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005

by Lauren Tarshis

Published: 2011-03-01

Paperback: 112 pages

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The horror of Hurricane Katrina is brought vividly to life in this fictional account of a boy, a dog, and the storm of the century.Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to ...