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Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

by Richard Grant

Published: 2015-10-13

Paperback: 320 pages

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Winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize Mississippi's #1 Bestseller of 2015 and 2016 (The Clarion-Ledger) A New York Times BestsellerIn Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mis...

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Radio Girls

by Sarah-Jane Stratford

Published: 2016-06-14

Paperback: 384 pages

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The Great War is over, and change is in the air, in this novel that brings to life the exciting days of early British radio…and one woman who finds her voice while working alongside the brilliant women and men of the BBC.   London, 1926. American-raised Maisie Musgrave is thrilled to l...

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Nos Servo: We Serve (The Chronicles of the Seven Cities Book 1)

by Robert W. Craven

Published: 2015-10-07

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As the end of humanity crashes around them, the diary of an early Christian is discovered. Its pages reveal the unfolding of an ancient prophecy. Two friends, Dryados and Talmun, are sent by the apostle John to deliver a simple letter to Gaius in Pergama. When they stop in Smyrna, a frie...

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Islands Apart: A Year on the Edge of Civilization

by Ken McAlpine

Published: 2009-07-14

Paperback: 272 pages

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Author Ken McAlpine stands in his front yard one night in Ventura, California, trying to see the stars. His view is diminished by light pollution, making it hard to see much of anything in the sky. Our fast-paced, technologically advanced society, he concludes, is not conducive to stargazi...

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Conversations with Saint Bernard: A Novel

by Jim Kraus

Published: 2015-03-17

Paperback: 320 pages

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George Gibson is determined to check off the last item on his bucket list: a trip across America. He hops in his RV to visit - and sketch - the buildings and places across America that he and his wife never got to see. When his daughter learns of a young boy forced to give up a beloved Saint Bernard...

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Paths of Desire: The Passions of a Suburban Gardener

by Dominique Browning

Published: 2005-02-08

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With the same warmth, wisdom, wit, and accessibility that readers have come to love and trust in her monthly column, House & Garden editor in chief Dominique Browning offers this lively, charming, and instructive story of restoring a neglected suburban garden. When a retaining wall in Bro...

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Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers

by James C. Humes

Published: 2002-04-23

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Turn Any Presentation into a Landmark OccasionEver wish you could captivate your boardroom with the opening line of your presentation, like Winston Churchill in his most memorable speeches? Or want to command attention by looming larger than life before your audience, much like Abraham Lin...

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Let Me Finish!

by Minh Lê

Published: 2016-06-07

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When our young hero settles in to read, the last thing he wants is for some noisy animals to ruin the ending of the story.But ruin it they do. And as it turns out, the boy is quickly approaching a surprise ending of his own! Maybe he should have listened to the animals after all. . . . Th...

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Let Me Finish

by Roger Angell

Published: 2007-06-04

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Widely known as an original and graceful writer, Roger Angell has developed a devoted following through his essays in the New Yorker. Now, in Let Me Finish, a deeply personal, fresh form of autobiography, he takes an unsentimental look at his early days as a boy growing up in Prohibition-e...

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The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop

by John Marchese

Published: 2007-03-27

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How does a simple piece of wood become a violin, the king of instruments? Watch and find out as Eugene Drucker, a member of the world–renowned Emerson String Quartet, commissions Sam Zygmuntowicz, a Brooklyn craftsman, to make him a new violin. As he tells this extraordinary story, journ...