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Elephants Can Remember: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)

by Agatha Christie

Published: 2006-10-03

Kindle Edition: 243 pages

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A classic Hercule Poirot investigation, Agatha Christie’s Elephants Can Remember has the expert detective delving into an unsolved crime from the past involving the strange death of a husband and wife.Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal ...

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The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class

by Dean MacCannell

Published: 2013-08-31

Paperback: 280 pages

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In this classic analysis of travel and sightseeing, author Dean MacCannell brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. In The Tourist—now with a new introduction fr...

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The Tourist (Milo Weaver)

by Olen Steinhauer

Published: 2012-08-28

Mass Market Paperback: 576 pages

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THE TOURISTOLEN STEINHAUERMilo Weaver has tried to leave his old life of secrets and lies behind by giving up his job as a "tourist" for the CIA?an undercover agent with no home, no identity. Now he's working a desk at the agency's New York headquarters. But when the arrest of a long-sough...

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North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic

by Alvah Simon

Published: 1999-09-14

Paperback: 328 pages

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In June 1994 Alvah Simon and his wife, Diana, set off in their 36-foot sailboat to explore the hauntingly beautiful world of icebergs, tundra, and fjords lying high above the Arctic Circle. Four months later, unexpected events would trap Simon alone on his boat, frozen in ice 100 miles fro...

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Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds

by Charles W. Sasser, Norma Cobb

Published: 2003-02-24

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In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine years old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pulled up stakes in the lower 48 and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land under the Homestead Act. The only land avai...

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The Year of the Runaways: A novel

by Sunjeev Sahota

Published: 2016-03-29

Hardcover: 496 pages

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Short-listed for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeThe Guardian: The Best Novels of 2015The Independent: Literary Fiction of the Year 2015From one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and Man Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota—a sweeping, urgent contemporary epic, set against a vast ge...

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An Undisturbed Peace: A Novel

by Mary Glickman

Published: 2016-02-02

Paperback: 378 pages

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Hailed as “the finest depiction of the infamous Trail of Tears,” this unflinching novel sheds light on a tragic history (Pat Conroy). As the tribes of the South make the grueling journey across the Mississippi River, a trio of disparate characters is united by a “far-reaching story o...

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The Good Neighbor: A Novel

by Amy Sue Nathan

Published: 2015-10-13

Paperback: 272 pages

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When small lies have big consequences...Things are a little rough for Izzy Lane. Still reeling from the break-up of her marriage, the newly single mom moves back to the Philadelphia home she grew up in, five-year-old Noah in tow. The transition is difficult, but with the help of her best f...

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The Unmarried Mother

by Sheila Tofield

Published: 2013-03-28

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Sheila Tofield tells her moving true story about being a single mother in 1950s Britain, in The Unmarried Mother.'A searing, honest testimony' Lesley PearseSheila grew up in Rotherham, the daughter of an uncaring mother who made her believe she was useless, stupid and - most painfully of a...

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The Secret of the Blue Trunk

by Lise Dion

Published: 2013-02-16

Paperback: 168 pages

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2014 Forest of Reading, White Pine Award ? Winner, Nonfiction The true story of how a young Québécois nun ended up a prisoner of war in Buchenwald and how her daughter discovered her secrets. In this true story, Armande Martel, a young nun from Quebec, is arrested by the Germans in 1...