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The Runaway Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel (Elm Creek Quilts Novels (Simon & Schuster))

by Jennifer Chiaverini

Published: 2010-10-19

Paperback: 352 pages

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After learning of her family’s ties to the slaveholding South, Sylvia Compson scours her attic for clues and discovers a window into the world of her ancestors: the memoir of her great-grandfather’s spinster sister, Gerda Bergstrom. Gerda’s memoir chronicles the founding of Elm Creek...

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The False Prince: Book 1 of the Ascendance Trilogy

by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Published: 2013-02-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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Choose to lie...or choose to die.In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete...

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Starry River of the Sky

by Grace Lin

Published: 2014-02-11

Paperback: 320 pages

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The moon is missing from the remote Village of Clear Sky, but only a young boy named Rendi seems to notice! Rendi has run away from home and is now working as a chore boy at the village inn. He can't help but notice the village's peculiar inhabitants and their problems-where has the innkee...

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The Lost Conspiracy

by Frances Hardinge

Published: 2009-09-01

Hardcover: 576 pages

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On an island of sandy beaches, dense jungles, and slumbering volcanoes, colonists seek to apply archaic laws to a new land, bounty hunters stalk the living for the ashes of their funerary pyres, and a smiling tribe is despised by all as traitorous murderers. It is here, in the midst of anc...

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Beyond the Sky and the Earth : A Journey into Bhutan

by Jamie Zeppa

Published: 1999

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Concealed in Death

by J. D. Robb

Published: 2014-02-18

Hardcover: 416 pages

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The incomparable J. D. Robb presents the latest moving and suspenseful novel in the #1 New York Times?bestselling Eve Dallas series.   In a decrepit, long-empty New York building, Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband begins the demolition process by swinging a sledgehammer into a wall. When ...

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India Grows At Night: A Liberal Case for A Strong State

by Gurcharan Das

Published: 2012-12-12

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Indians wryly admit that ?India grows at night.” But that is only half the saying; the full expression is: ?India grows at night?when the government sleeps,” suggesting that the nation may be rising despite the state. India's is a tale of private success and public failure. Prosperity ...

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The Workhouse Girl

by Dilly Court

Published: 2013-10-14

Paperback: 496 pages

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Would her life always be one of poverty and struggle? The gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Best of Daughters.      Circumstances force eight-year-old Sarah Scrase and her widowed mother Ellen to enter St Giles and St George's Workhouse in Bloomsbury. ...

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A Life in Men: A Novel

by Gina Frangello

Published: 2014-02-04

Paperback: 432 pages

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The friendship between Mary and Nix had endured since childhood, a seemingly unbreakable bond, until the mid-1980s, when the two young women embarked on a summer vacation in Greece. It was a trip initiated by Nix, who had just learned that Mary had been diagnosed with a disease that would ...

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Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

by Alfie Kohn

Published: 2006-03-28

Paperback: 272 pages

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Most parenting guides begin with the question “How can we get kids to do what they're told?” and then proceed to offer various techniques for controlling them. In this truly groundbreaking book, nationally respected educator Alfie Kohn begins instead by asking, “What do kids need—a...