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The House Gun

by Nadine Gordimer

Published: 2001-12-09

Kindle Edition: 300 pages

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Nadine Gordimer's novel is a passionate narrative of the complex manifestations of that final test of human relations we call love. It moves with the restless pace of living itself; if it is a parable of present violence, it is also an affirmation of the will to reconciliation that starts ...

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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans

by John Bailey

Published: 2005-11-29

Paperback: 288 pages

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It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years earlier. But the young woman is property, ...

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The Next Time You See Me: A Novel

by Holly Goddard Jones

Published: 2013-02-12

Hardcover: 384 pages

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“The lonely cast of outcasts in The Next Time You See Me has enough heartache for a whole jukebox full of country songs. Holly Goddard Jones spins a tight if heartbreaking tale, always keeping the reader leaning forward.” —Stewart O’Nan, author of Songs for the MissingIn The Next T...

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The Complete Call the Midwife Stories: True Stories of the East End in the 1950s (Multiple copy pack) By (author) Jennifer Worth

by Jennifer Worth

Published: 2012

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* * * * Informative,
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Shadow on the Crown: A Novel

by Patricia Bracewell

Published: 2013-02-07

Hardcover: 432 pages

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A rich tale of power and forbidden love revolving around a young medieval queenIn 1002, fifteen­-year-old Emma of Normandy crosses the Narrow Sea to wed the much older King Athelred of England, whom she meets for the first time at the church door. Thrust into an unfamiliar and treacherous...

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Dunaway's Crossing

by Nancy Brandon

Published: 2012-04-18

Paperback: 294 pages

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Praise for Dunaway's Crossing:"Brandon paints a beautiful picture of life in middle and southern Georgia at the peak of the 1918 flu epidemic...A very well done first novel." Lisbeth Thom, Author of Row Away from the RocksI found this book riveting...This book offers a glimpse into one of...

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Better Nate Than Ever

by Tim Federle

Published: 2013-02-05

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A small-town boy hops a bus to New York City to crash an audition for E.T.: The Musical.Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life, he’s wanted to star in a Broadway show. (Heck, he’d settle for seeing a Broadway show.) But how is Nate supposed to make his dreams come true when he’s ...

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October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard

by Leslea Newman

Published: 2012-09-25

Hardcover: 128 pages

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WINNER OF A 2013 STONEWALL HONOR!A masterful poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard’s murder on the world.On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was lured from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to ...

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Harvest: A Novel

by Jim Crace

Published: 2013-02-12

Hardcover: 224 pages

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On the morning after harvest, the inhabitants of a remote English village awaken looking forward to a hard-earned day of rest and feasting at their landowner's table. But the sky is marred by two conspicuous columns of smoke, replacing pleasurable anticipation with alarm and suspicion.O...

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Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde: A True Story

by Rebecca Dana

Published: 2013-01-24

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The ultimate fish-out-of-water tale . . . A child who never quite fit in, Rebecca Dana worshipped at the altar of Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, dreaming of one day ditching Pittsburgh and moving to New York, her Jerusalem. After graduating from college, she made her way to the city to be...