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The Winter Sea: A Novel

by Di Morrissey

Published: 2014-12-30

Paperback: 432 pages

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Escaping an unhappy marriage and an unsatisfactory job, Cassie Holloway moves to the little Australian coastal town of Whitby Point. There she meets the Aquino family, whose fishing business was founded by their ancestor, Giuseppe, an Italian immigrant, some ninety years before. Life for...

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The Soul of All Living Creatures: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

by Vint Virga D.V.M.

Published: 2014-07-08

Paperback: 240 pages

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As profiled in the New York Times Magazine…Based on the author’s twenty-five years of experience as a veterinarian and veterinary behaviorist, The Soul of All Living Creatures delves into the inner lives of animals – from whales, wolves, and leopards to mice, dogs, and cats – and ...

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Fields of Exile

by Nora Gold

Published: 2014-04-19

Paperback: 424 pages

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Judith finds the courage to stand up for her beliefs and protest anti-Semitic hypocrisy. Judith is a young woman who lived in Israel for a decade, was a peace activist there, and defines herself as "left-wing," yet in graduate school back in Canada, she discovers that vilification of Isra...

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This Side of the River

by Jeffrey Stayton

Published: 2015-01-15

Hardcover: 256 pages

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This Side of the River Told from multiple narrators, this gritty tale takes place in the summer of 1865 after the Confederacy has collapsed. A contingent of young Civil War widows who have survived General Sherman s March to the Sea rally around a teenage, Christ-haunted Texas Ranger named Cat Harvey...

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The House of Hawthorne: A Novel

by Erika Robuck

Published: 2015-05-05

Hardcover: 416 pages

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From Erika Robuck, bestselling author of Hemingway’s Girl, comes a brilliant new novel about a literary couple. The unlikely marriage between Nathaniel Hawthorne, the celebrated novelist, and Sophia Peabody, the invalid artist, was a true union of passion and intellect.?   Beset by crip...

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The Company: A Novel of the CIA

by Robert Littell

Published: 2003-03-25

Paperback: 896 pages

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This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA—known as "the Company" to insiders. Racing across a landscape spanning the legendar...

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The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2006-07-06

Paperback: 162 pages

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A collection of six classic short stories from Edith Wharton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence. Includes "The Last Asset," "In Trust," "The Pretext, "The Verdict," "The Pot-Boiler," and "The Best Man." In the title story, "The Hermit and the Wild Woman," the reader learns that...

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Memoirs of a Certain Sansei: A Japanese American Mother and Teacher

by Elsie Higa

Published: 2015-01-29

Kindle Edition: 104 pages

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Initiated from a child’s and student’s points of view, this memoir shares a seasoned teacher’s thoughts and methods on education and parenting.

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Woman with a Gun: A Novel

by Phillip Margolin

Published: 2014-12-02

Kindle Edition: 309 pages

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New York Times bestselling master of mystery Phillip Margolin transcends his traditional territory in this new and different book, a haunting thriller inspired by an unforgettable photograph.Visiting an art museum displaying a retrospective of acclaimed photographer Kathy Moran's work, asp...

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Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon

by R. Gregory Nokes

Published: 2009-10-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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In 1887, more than thirty Chinese gold miners were massacred on the Oregon side of Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. Massacred for Gold, the first authoritative account of the unsolved crime, unearths the evidence that points to an improbable gang of rustlers and schoolboy...