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The Renegade Queen (Rebellious Times) (Volume 1)

by Eva Flynn

Published: 2015-12-04

Paperback: 328 pages

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The highly acclaimed, richly researched novel that sheds light on the haunting choices made by the first woman to run for President, Victoria Woodhull and the love of her life, radical James Blood.It's 1869 and Victoria has a choice to make. She can stay in an abusive marriage and continu...

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This Was Not the Plan: A Novel

by Cristina Alger

Published: 2016-02-02

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From the acclaimed author of The Darlings comes an incisive, hilarious, and tender exploration of fatherhood, love, and family life through the story of a widower who attempts to become the father he didn’t know he could be.Charlie Goldwyn’s life hasn’t exactly gone according to plan...

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The Death of Fidel Perez

by Elizabeth Huergo

Published: 2013-03-26

Hardcover: 288 pages

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On July 26, 2003, the 50th anniversary of the Moncada Army Barracks raid that sparked the Cuban revolution, something unexpected happens. When Fidel Pérez and his brother accidentally tumble to their deaths from their Havana balcony, the neighbors' outcry, "Fidel has fallen!" is misinter...

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Rock Crystal (New York Review Books Classics)

by Adalbert Stifter

Published: 2008-09-16

Paperback: 76 pages

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Seemingly the simplest of stories—a passing anecdote of village life— Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense. This jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann praised as "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the most secretly daring and the most strangely...

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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

by Vicki Myron, Bret Witter

Published: 2008-09-05

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How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear th...

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Dear James: A Novel

by Jon Hassler

Published: 1996-08-27

Paperback: 438 pages

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When St. Isidore's Elementary in Staggerford, Minnesota is closed, Miss Agatha McGee, who has taught there her whole life, is thrown back on her friends to sustain her. She finds her friends wanting. Fleeing unhappiness at home, Agatha sets off on a pilgrimage to Italy, unaware that her ol...

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The Point Is: Making Sense of Birth, Death, and Everything in Between

by Lee Eisenberg

Published: 2016-02-02

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In this engaging and provocative new book, Lee Eisenberg, bestselling author of The Number, dares to tackle nothing less than what it takes to find enduring meaning and purpose in life. He explains how from a young age, each of us is compelled to take memories of events and relationships a...

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I'll See You in Paris

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Other Men's Daughters

by Richard G. Stern

Published: 1973

Hardcover: 244 pages

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Written by one of America's finest contemporary novelists, Other Men's Daughters is the story of an intense love affair between a middle-aged professor and a young woman, wise and worldly beyond her years.One reviewer writes, "I...was struck not simply by its psychological depth but partic...

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Wolf's Mouth

by John Smolens

Published: 2016-02-01

Hardcover: 267 pages

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In 1944 Italian officer Captain Francesco Verdi is captured by Allied forces in North Africa and shipped to a POW camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where the senior POW, the ruthless Kommandant Vogel, demands that all prisoners adhere to his Nazi dictates. His life threatened, Verdi es...