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Southern as a Second Language: A Novel (Dixie Series)

by Lisa Patton

Published: 2013-10-15

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Not only do Southerners talk slowly, but sometimes the whole language is hard to understand. No one realizes that more than Memphis belle Leelee Satterfield. Since she debuted in Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter, Leelee has entertained tens of thousands of readers. Watching her tackle l...

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I don't know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance (Except When You Shouldn't)

by Leah Hager Cohen

Published: 2013-09-12

Hardcover: 128 pages

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A short, concise book in favor of honoring doubt and admitting when the answer is: I don’t know. In a tight, enlightening narrative, Leah Hager Cohen explores why, so often, we attempt to hide our ignorance, and why, in so many different areas, we would be better off coming clean....

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The Ghost of Sherwood

by Wilson Harp

Published: 2013-04-05

Paperback: 272 pages

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King Richard is dead. With King John on the throne, the Sheriff of Nottingham knows he will soon be replaced by one of the new king's favorite men. The only way he can survive the constant vagaries of political whim is to become wealthy in his own right. And the easiest way to do this is ...

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To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

by Cris Beam

Published: 2013-08-13

Hardcover: 336 pages

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"A triumph of narrative reporting and storytelling. . . .  Beam gives [foster children] a much-needed voice and does what too many adults in the foster-care system can't, or won't: She advocates for them." -- New York Times Book ReviewWho are the children of foster care? What, as a c...

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by Adriana Trigiani

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Running from the Devil

by Jamie Freveletti

Published: 2010-05-25

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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“A breathless, hair-raising read, one of the most gripping thrillers I’ve read in a long, long time.”—Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of The Keepsake< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> A high-octane debut thriller in the tradition of James Rollins, Lee Child, and Daniel Silva, Running From the Dev...

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The Shogun's Daughter: A Novel of Feudal Japan (Sano Ichiro Novels)

by Laura Joh Rowland

Published: 2013-09-17

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Japan, 1704.  In an elegant mansion a young woman named Tsuruhime lies on her deathbed, attended by her nurse.  Smallpox pustules cover her face.  Incense burns, to banish the evil spirits of disease. After Tsuruhime takes her last breath, the old woman watching from the doorway says, �...

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The Tenth Witness (Henri Poincare Mystery)

by Leonard Rosen

Published: 2013-08-16

Hardcover: 288 pages

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On the night of October 9, 1799, the frigate HMS Lutine breaks apart on the shoals of the Frisian Islands off the Dutch coast. When the insurer Lloyds of London pays on the wreck, it takes ownership and plans expeditions to recoup the lost millions in gold and silver. Nearly two hundres ye...

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Asunder

by Chloe Aridjis

Published: 2013-09-17

Paperback: 208 pages

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Marie's job as a guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors of the Gallery surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belies their own fragility. There also lin...

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Breeding in Captivity: One Woman's Unusual Path to Motherhood

by Stacy Bolt

Published: 2013-09-03

Hardcover: 192 pages

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Breeding in Captivity takes us on Stacy Bolt’s journey to have a child at "advanced maternal age," first with the help of a Really Expensive fertility specialist, and then ultimately through a local adoption agency. But this isn’t your typical serious memoir about struggling with infer...