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ONE SMALL CANDLE, The Story of William Bradford and the Pilgrim Fathers

by Evelyn Tidman

Published: 2013-11-15

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By the author of GENTLEMAN OF FORTUNE, The Adventures of Bartholomew Roberts, Pirate. William Bradford is just eighteen when he leaves England with the Separatist congregation to move to Holland. The congregation eventually settles in Leyden, but, battling to make a living, they decide to...

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The Short Drop

by Matthew FitzSimmons

Published: 2015-12-01

Paperback: 397 pages

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The bestseller with over half a million readers that People magazine called a “live-wire debut.”A decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard—then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency—disappeared in the most sensati...

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Two If by Sea

by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Published: 2016-03-15

Hardcover: 416 pages

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, an epic story of courage and devotion that spans three continents and the entire map of the human heart.Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami in Brisbane, American expa...

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The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a Fifty Year Search

by Martin Sixsmith

Published: 2010-07-02

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When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for ado...

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River Road: A Novel

by Carol Goodman

Published: 2016-01-19

Hardcover: 288 pages

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From the award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a professor accused of killing her favorite student in a hit-and-run accident.Nan Lewis—a creative writing professor at a state university in upstate New York—is driving home f...

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The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory

by Julie Checkoway

Published: 2015-10-27

Hardcover: 432 pages

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For readers of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat comes the inspirational, untold story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers.In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream ...

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Harry Potter Schoolbooks: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them / Quidditch Through the Ages

by J.K. Rowling

Published: 2001-11-01

Hardcover: 98 pages

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When first released to Muggles in March 2001, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages further enlightened Harry Potter fans about the dangers and delights of the wizarding world. Now these two charming works of non-fiction are available in hardcover -- in a s...

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Harry Potter)

by Newt Scamander

Published: 2015-06-30

Hardcover: 128 pages

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Straight from the library at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a book of magical creatures that no Harry Potter fan should be without!A copy of FANTASTIC BEASTS & WHERE TO FIND THEM resides in almost every wizarding household in the country. Now Muggles too have the chance to dis...

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A Sister's Battle: Neliah vs Nyah

by Jai Wright

Published: 2015-07-30

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Twin sisters Neliah and Nyah Stokes have always dreamed of having that sisterly bond that most twins are born with. Unfortunately their mother Pam had separated them as little girls while favoring Neliah over Nyah. Now at twenty-seven years old Neliah and Nyah are living separate lives no...

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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

by Nick Bostrom

Published: 2014-09-03

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A New York Times bestsellerSuperintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has...