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The Old Cape House

by Barbara Eppich Struna

Published: 2013-10-28

Paperback: 296 pages

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Nancy Caldwell relocates to an old sea captain’s house on Cape Cod with her husband and four children. When she discovers an abandoned root cellar in her backyard containing a baby’s skull and gold coins, she digs up evidence that links her land to the legendary tale of Maria Hallett and her pirate...

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte

Published: 2014-08-02

Paperback: 302 pages

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The novel is set somewhere in the north of England, during the reign of George III (1760–1820), and goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends...

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My Mantelpiece: A Memoir of Survival and Social Justice

by Carolyn Goodman, Brad Herzog, Maya Angelou (Foreword)

Published: 2014-05-01

Hardcover: 216 pages

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Carolyn Goodman's life was punctuated by tragedy, including a brother's premature death, childhood molestation, a father's suicide, and a son's infamous murder. But hers is foremost a tale of survival, of turning personal anguish into social conscience. When her twenty-year-old son, Andy, was one of...

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Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

by Roy Peter Clark

Published: 2008-01-10

Paperback: 288 pages

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One of America's most influential writing teachers offers a toolbox from which writers of all kinds can draw practical inspiration."Writing is a craft you can learn," says Roy Peter Clark. "You need tools, not rules." His book distills decades of experience into 50 tools that will help any...

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The Cow in the Parking Lot: A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger

by Susan Edmiston, Leonard Scheff

Published: 2010-06-24

Paperback: 197 pages

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Road rage. Domestic violence. Professionally angry TV and radio commentators. We’re a society that is swimming in anger, always about to snap. Leonard Scheff, a trial attorney, once used anger to fuel his court persona, until he came to realize just how poisonous anger is. That and his i...

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The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust: A Memoir

by Noam Chayut

Published: 2013-06-04

Hardcover: 288 pages

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“She took from me the belief that absolute evil exists in this world, and the belief that I was avenging it and fighting against it. For that girl, I embodied absolute evil ... Since then I have been left without my Holocaust, and since then everything in my life has assumed a new meanin...

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Bestest. Ramadan. Ever.

by Medeia Sharif

Published: 2011-07-08

Paperback: 312 pages

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No pizza. No boyfriend. (No life.) Okay, so during Ramadan, we're not allowed to eat from sunrise to sunset. For one whole month. My family does this every year, even though I've been to a mosque exactly twice in my life. And it's true, I could stand to lose a few pounds. (Sadly, my mom's...

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Walking from East to West: God in the Shadows

by Ravi Zacharias

Published: 2010-07-10

Paperback: 240 pages

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For more than three decades, apologist Ravi Zacharias has shared bits and pieces of his personal life and experience. In Walking from East to West, now in softcover, Zacharias invites you to follow him on a journey through his life: to see and smell the neighborhood in India where he grew up, to feel...

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Soy Sauce for Beginners

by Kirstin Chen

Published: 2014-01-07

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Gretchen Lin, adrift at the age of thirty, leaves her floundering marriage in San Francisco to move back to her childhood home in Singapore and immediately finds herself face-to-face with the twin headaches she’s avoided her entire adult life: her mother’s drinking problem and the mach...

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Manga Classics: Pride & Prejudice Softcover

by Jane Austen

Published: 2014-08-19

Paperback: 376 pages

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Beloved by millions the world over, Pride & Prejudice is delightfully transformed in this bold, new manga adaptation. All of the joy, heartache, and romance of Jane Austen's original, perfectly illuminated by the sumptuous art of manga-ka Po Tse, and faithfully adapted by Stacy E. King.