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Granny Hooks a Crook: A Fuschia Minnesota Mystery (Book 1)

by Julie Seedorf

Published: 2013-07-18

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Granny leads a secret life in the small, unique community of Fuschia, Minnesota. It’s not just her all junk food diet, multiplying pets, or her shocking bedtime attire that makes Granny one in a million. No, Granny is an undercover cop, charged by “the Big Guy” (the town’s police chief) of...

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Jack Maggs: A Novel

by Peter Carey

Published: 1999-02-22

Paperback: 357 pages

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The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He has the demeanor of a savage and the s...

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The Gone-Away World (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Nick Harkaway

Published: 2009-08-11

Paperback: 592 pages

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A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world. Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together, they studied kung-...

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Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

by Andrew Solomon

Published: 2016-04-19

Hardcover: 592 pages

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A New York Times Notable BookFrom the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—a riveting collection of essays about places in dramatic transition.Far and Away collects Andrew Solomon’s writing...

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Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Dover Books on Americana)

by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Published: 2006-06-30

Paperback: 144 pages

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As a young widow with a small child, Elinore Pruitt left Denver in 1909 and set out for Wyoming, where she hoped to buy a ranch. Determined to prove that a lone woman could survive the hardships of homesteading, she initially worked as a housekeeper and hired hand for a neighbor — a kind...

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Freedom: My Book of Firsts

by Jaycee Dugard

Published: 2016-07-12

Hardcover: 272 pages

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In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own.When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was...

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Good as Gone

by Amy Gentry

Published: 2016-07-26

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Thirteen-year-old Julie Whitaker was kidnapped from her bedroom in the middle of the night, witnessed only by her younger sister. Her family was shattered, but managed to stick together, hoping against hope that Julie is still alive. And then one night: the doorbell rings. A young woman wh...

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* * * Unconvincing,
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The Tudor Plot: A Cotton Malone Novella

by Steve Berry

Published: 2013-04-29

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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In this original eBook novella by the New York Times bestselling author of The King’s Deception, globetrotting intelligence agent Cotton Malone is lured into dangerous intrigue surrounding the world’s most famous royals—and uncovers a murderous conspiracy of terrorists and traitors, ...

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The Friendly Persuasion

by Jessamyn West

Published: 2003-09-01

Paperback: 214 pages

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A quintessential American heroine, Eliza Birdwell is a wonderful blend of would-be austerity, practicality, and gentle humor when it comes to keeping her faith and caring for her family and community. Her husband, Jess, shares Eliza's love of people and peaceful ways but, unlike Eliza, als...

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All Waiting Is Long

by Barbara J. Taylor

Published: 2016-07-05

Paperback: 288 pages

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"Powerful...Every page is saturated with the 1930s milieu as the sisters navigate the adversities of their reality on a sea rough with the unrealistic expectations of well-intended idealists both religious and secular. As if to highlight those expectations, Taylor periodically interrupts h...