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Stand Up That Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail

by Jay Erskine Leutze

Published: 2012-06-05

Hardcover: 400 pages

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In the tradition of A Civil Ac tion—the true story of a North Carolina outdoorsman who teams up with his Appalachian “mountain people” neighbors to save treasured land from being destroyed Living alone in his wooded mountain retreat, Jay Leutze gets a call from a whip-smart fourteen-...

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Lost Communities of Virginia

by Terri Fisher, Kirsten Sparenborg

Published: 2011-05-06

Hardcover: 252 pages

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Virginia’s back roads and rural areas are dotted with traces of once-thriving communities. General stores, train depots, schools, churches, banks, and post offices provide intriguing details of a way of life now gone. The buildings may be empty or repurposed today, the existing community...

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Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)

by Saul Bellow

Published: 2012-12-24

Paperback: 352 pages

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"It blazes as fiercly and scintillatingly as a forest fire. There is life here; a great rage to live more fully. In this it is a giant among novels." (San Francisco Examiner) Saul Bellow evokes all the rich colors and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this acclaimed comic nov...

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Oleander Girl: A Novel

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Published: 2013-03-19

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Beloved bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been hailed by Abraham Verghese as a “gifted storyteller” and by People magazine as a “skilled cartographer of the heart.” Now, Divakaruni returns with her most gripping novel yet, a sweeping, suspenseful coming-of-age tale ...

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The Chalice: A Novel

by Nancy Bilyeau

Published: 2013-03-05

Hardcover: 496 pages

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In the midst of England’s Reformation, a young novice will risk everything to defy the most powerful men of her era. In 1538, England’s bloody power struggle between crown and cross threatens to tear the country apart. Novice Joanna Stafford has tasted the wrath of the royal court, dis...

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Why Can't I Be You: A Novel

by Allie Larkin

Published: 2013-02-26

Paperback: 304 pages

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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture"An engaging and smart novel with rich characters.”—She Knows Red Hot Book of the WeekAt one time or another, everyone has wished they could be someone else. Exploring this universal longing, Allie Larkin follows up the success of her debut novel, Stay,...

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Fiesta of Smoke

by Suzan Still

Published: 2013-03-05

Paperback: 524 pages

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Against a backdrop of rebellion and intrigue, love between Javier Carteña, commander of insurgent Mexican forces, and Calypso Searcy, an American novelist at the pinnacle of her career, sizzles with passion across a broad sweep of history. Encompassing time from the Conquest of the 1500s ...

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A Murder at Rosamund's Gate (Lucy Campion Mysteries)

by Susanna Calkins

Published: 2013-04-23

Hardcover: 352 pages

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In Susanna Calkins's atmospheric debut novel, a chambermaid must uncover a murderer in seventeenth-century plague-ridden LondonFor Lucy Campion, a seventeenth-century English chambermaid serving in the household of the local magistrate, life is an endless repetition of polishing pewter, ...

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KEEP NO SECRETS

by Julie Compton

Published: 2013-03-12

Paperback: 344 pages

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After the ultimate betrayal, which is more important: trust or forgiveness?In KEEP NO SECRETS, the controversial follow-up to Compton's debut legal thriller TELL NO LIES, a district attorney struggles to redeem himself after a one-night stand damaged his marriage and professional reputatio...

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A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows: An Outlander Novella

by Diana Gabaldon

Published: 2012-12-03

Kindle Edition: 54 pages

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In this original Outlander novella, Diana Gabaldon reveals what really happened to Roger MacKenzie Wakefield’s parents. Orphaned during World War II, Roger believed that his mother died during the London Blitz, and that his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in combat. But in An Echo in th...