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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

by Rebecca Solnit

Published: 2010-08-31

Paperback: 368 pages

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From the author of Men Explain Things to Me – “A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters” (The New York Times Book Review)"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben Chosen as a...

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A Long Way Home: A Memoir

by Saroo Brierley

Published: 2014-06-12

Hardcover: 272 pages

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The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home…but an identity long-since left behind.At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own l...

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Pepper, Silk & Ivory: Amazing Stories about Jews and the Far East

by Rabbi Marvin Tokayer, Ellen Rodman Ph.D

Published: 2014-09-01

Hardcover: 300 pages

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There is a missing page in Jewish history. We tend to assume that Jewish history is to be found in the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, and the Americas but not in the Far East. Pepper, Silk & Ivory has discovered that missing page, revealing the amazing stories of Jews who both benefitted from and...

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Not in the Heart

by Chris Fabry

Published: 2012-01-20

Paperback: 432 pages

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2013 Christy Award winner!Truman Wiley used to report news stories from around the world, but now the most troubling headlines are his own. He’s out of work, out of touch with his family, out of his home. But nothing dogs him more than his son’s failing heart. With mounting hospital bi...

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Candle in the Darkness (Refiner's Fire)

by Lynn Austin

Published: 2014-03-18

Paperback: 464 pages

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In this Christy-award-winning novel, now beautifully repackaged, a timid southern belle must find her voice--and her courage--when she joins the Abolitionist cause.

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Private London

by James Patterson, Mark Pearson

Published: 2012-12-04

Paperback: 400 pages

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Private goes on the hunt for London's most feared killer since Jack the Ripper. For Hannah Shapiro, a young American student, the nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when the owner of Private--the world's most exclusive detective agency--saved her from a horrific death. Now, af...

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The Devil's Star: A Harry Hole Novel

by Jo Nesbo

Published: 2012-01-31

Paperback: 464 pages

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“Astonishingly confident. . . . The Devil’s Star scores with an intriguing plot and Nesbo’s mastery of pace and tension.” — The Times (London) From one of the most celebrated crime writers in Europe and the award-winning author of The Redbreast comes an epic thriller featuring Po...

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The Redeemer (Harry Hole)

by Jo Nesbo

Published: 2013-05-21

Hardcover: 416 pages

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A fantastically gripping thriller from the best-selling author of The Snowman.Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry...

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Glock: The Rise of America's Gun

by Paul M. Barrett

Published: 2013-01-15

Paperback: 320 pages

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The Glock pistol is America’s Gun. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists and coveted by cops and crooks alike. Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, the pistol arrived in America at a fortuitous time. Law enforcement agencies had concluded that their agents and officers, armed with stan...

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Riding With Reindeer: A Bicycle Odyssey Through Finland, Lapland, and Arctic Norway

by Robert M. Goldstein

Published: 2010-06

Paperback: 336 pages

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In the summer of 2007, Robert Goldstein departs Helsinki on a self-supported bicycle epic across Finland with the goal of pedaling to the Barents Sea. Aboard a folding bicycle towing a wagon, he weathers furious storms, survives a near-disastrous accident and obsesses whether he will be ea...