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Things that Fall from the Sky

by Kevin Brockmeier

Published: 2003-07-08

Paperback: 224 pages

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Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier's richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens. In the deftly told ?These Hands,? a man named Lewis recounts his time b...

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* * * * * Dramatic,
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The Things That Keep Us Here

by Carla Buckley

Published: 2010-02-09

Hardcover: 416 pages

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How far would you go to protect your family?Ann Brooks never thought she’d have to answer that question. Then she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now, as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices to protect everyone she loves from a threa...

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* * * Dramatic,
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The Things That Keep Us Here: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

by Carla Buckley

Published: 2011-01-25

Paperback: 432 pages

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Everything seems quiet on Ann Brooks’s suburban cul-de-sac. Despite her impending divorce, she’s created a happy home and her daughters are adjusting to the change. She feels lucky to be in a supportive community and confident that she can handle any other hardship that life may throw ...

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The Things They Carried

Published: 2003

Hardcover: 270 pages

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The soldiers in the Vietnam war carried love letters, pictures of girlfriends, and newly formed memories that fundamentally changed their perceptions of reality. This novel is about these men, the war they fought and the power of storytelling to mend the terrible, life-altering rift that war leaves.

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* * * * Insightful,
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The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien

Published: 2009

Paperback: 233 pages

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A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.   The Things They Carried depicts the...

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The Things We Cherished: A Novel

by Pam Jenoff

Published: 2011-07-12

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Pam Jenoff, whose first novel, The Kommandant's Girl, was a Quill Award finalist, a Book Sense pick, and a finalist for the ALA Sophie Brody Award, joins the Doubleday list with a suspenseful story of love and betrayal set during the Holocaust. An ambitious novel that spans decades and con...

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Things We Couldn't Say: A dramatic account of Christian resistance in Holland during WWII

by Diet Eman, James Schaap

Published: 2008-08-25

Paperback: 352 pages

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This is the true story of Diet Eman, a young Christian woman who joined the resistance movement in the Netherlands during WWII. Together with her fiance' and other Dutch men and women, "Group Hein" risked their lives to save the lives of Jews who were in danger of becoming victims of Hitler's...

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Things We Didn't Say: A Novel

by Kristina Riggle

Published: 2011-06-28

Paperback: 352 pages

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What goes unsaid can sometimes speak the loudest . . . What makes up a family? For Casey it's sharing a house with her fiancÉ, Michael, and his three children, whom she intends to nurture more than she ever took care of herself. But Casey's plans have come undone. Michael's silences ha...

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Things We Didn't See Coming

by Steven Amsterdam

Published: 2010-02-02

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Michael Williams, in Melbourne's The Age, wrote of this award-winning, dazzling debut collection, ?By turns horrific and beautiful . . . Humanity at its most fractured and desolate . . . Often moving, frequently surprising, even blackly funny . . . Things We Didn?t See Coming is terrific.?...

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* * * Romantic,
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The Things We Do for Love: A Novel

by Kristin Hannah

Published: 2005-06-28

Mass Market Paperback: 385 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah ?touches the deepest, most tender corner of our hearts? (Tami Hoag). Her last novel, Between Sisters, was chosen by CBS's The Early Show as one of the best books of the summer. Now she returns with The Things We Do for Love?a poignant, evoca...