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The Difference Engine

by William Gibson

Published: 2011-07-26

Paperback: 512 pages

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The 20th anniversary edition of the classic steampunk novel With new commentary by the authors 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine, and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its ...

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Cinder (Lunar Chronicles)

by Marissa Meyer

Published: 2013

Paperback: 448 pages

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The first book in the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer! See where the futuristic YA fairytale saga all began, with the tale of a teenage cyborg who must fight for Earth's survival against villains from outer space. "An interesting mash u...

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Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives

by Becky Aikman

Published: 2013-01-22

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.   In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world.  In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discov...

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Seedfolks (Joanna Colter Books)

by Paul Fleischman

Published: 1999-04-01

Hardcover: 69 pages

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Common GroundA vacant lot, rat-infested and filled with garbage, looked like no place for a garden. Especially to a neighborhood of strangers where no one seems to care. Until one day, a young girl clears a small space and digs into the hard-packed soil to plant her precious bean seeds. Su...

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The Bells

by Richard Harvell

Published: 2010-09-14

Kindle Edition: 386 pages

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I grew up as the son of a man who could not possibly have been my father. Though there was never any doubt that my seed had come from another man, Moses Froben, Lo Svizzero, called me “son.” And I called him “father.” On the rare occasions when someone dared to ask for clarificatio...

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The Great Santini

by Pat Conroy

Published: 2010-12-28

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Step into the powerhouse life of Bull Meecham. He's all Marine -- fighter pilot, king of the clouds, and absolute ruler of his family. Lillian is his wife -- beautiful, southern-bred, with a core of velvet steel. Without her cool head, her kids would be in real trouble. Ben is the oldest, a born athlete...

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The Sisters Montclair

by Cathy Holton

Published: 2012-07-24

Kindle Edition: 350 pages

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A tale of family secrets and sisterly bonds set against the unlikely friendship of two remarkable women: Stella Nightingale, a twenty-one-year-old runaway from a broken home, and Alice Montclair Whittington, a ninety-four-year-old Southern grande dame with a dry sense of humor, a wicked to...

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Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm

by Monte Reel

Published: 2013-03-12

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beast—the gorilla—only to stumble straight into the center of the biggest debate of the day: Darwin's theory of evolution In 1856 P...

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Lessons in French

by Hilary Reyl

Published: 2013-03-05

Kindle Edition: 352 pages

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It’s 1989, the Berlin Wall is coming down, and Kate has just graduated from Yale, eager to pursue her dreams as a fledgling painter. When she receives a job offer to work as the assistant to Lydia Schell, a famous American photographer in Paris, she immediately accepts. It’s a chance n...

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White Tiger

by Gary Naiman

Published: 2012-04-09

Kindle Edition: 193 pages

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         He walks among us . . .          After twenty years of denial, Janine Landry can stand no more. Her alcoholic husband's latest tirade has destroyed any hope of saving their marriage. With her children grown, she is prepared to build a new life with Charles Haden...