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Snow in August: A Novel

by Pete Hamill

Published: 2013-06-11

Paperback: 384 pages

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Brooklyn, 1947. The war veterans have come home. Jackie Robinson is about to become a Dodger. And in one close-knit working-class neighborhood, an eleven-year-old Irish Catholic boy named Michael Devlin has just made friends with a lonely rabbi from Prague.Snow in August is the story of th...

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George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

by Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger

Published: 2013-11-05

Hardcover: 256 pages

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“As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by events that happened in a place I call home, I hope with this book to give the secret six the credit they didn’t get in life. The Culper spies represent all the patriotic Americans who give so much for their country but, because of the n...

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The Three of Swords

by Eve di Sciascio

Published: 2010-12-23

Paperback: 164 pages

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In the poignant and intriguing The Three of Swords, Eve Francesca di Sciascio introduces the handsome Dr. Stephen Trapani, a psychiatrist with a secret past; his love interest Alana Lavetta, an empathic singer-songwriter with an interest in Tarot and the occult; and Stephen's colleague and...

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God at the Edge: Searching for the Divine in Uncomfortable and Unexpected Places

by Niles Goldstein, Niles Elliot Goldstein

Published: 2001-04

Paperback: 192 pages

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Here is a book about adventure, raw experience, and facing inner demons. Niles Elliot Goldstein is a young rabbi who sets out to find God in tough and often scary situations: dogsledding above the Arctic Circle, taking the Silk Road into Central Asia without a visa, being chased by a grizz...

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Fingerprints of God: What Science Is Learning About the Brain and Spiritual Experience

by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Published: 2010-05-04

Paperback: 336 pages

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The New York Times bestseller that explores the startling discoveries that science is making about faith. Is spiritual experience real? Or is it a delusion? When we pray, what happens? Can science explain God? In Fingerprints of God, National Public Radio religion correspondent Barbara B...

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Money, A Love Story: Untangle Your Financial Woes and Create the Life You Really Want

by Kate Northrup

Published: 2013-09-10

Paperback: 237 pages

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Having a good relationship with money is tough-whether you have millions in the bank or just a few bucks to your name. Why? Because just like any other relationship, your life with money has its ups and downs, its twists and turns, its breakups and makeups. And just like other relationships, living happily...

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Sorry!: The English and Their Manners

by Henry Hitchings

Published: 2013-11-05

Hardcover: 400 pages

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A humorous and charming investigation into what it really means to have proper mannersMost of us know a bit about what passes for good manners—holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table—and we certainly know bad manners when we see them. But where has this patc...

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Worthy Brown's Daughter

by Phillip Margolin

Published: 2014-01-21

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Known for his critically acclaimed contemporary thrillers, New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin explores intriguing new territory in Worthy Brown's Daughter, a compelling historical drama, set in nineteenth-century Oregon, that combines a heartbreaking story of slavery and mu...

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The Bookseller's Sonnets

by Andi Rosenthal

Published: 2010-09-16

Paperback: 412 pages

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A mysterious package from an anonymous artifact donor arrives on the desk of Jill Levin, the senior curator at a Holocaust museum: a secret diary, written by the eldest daughter of St. Thomas More, legal advisor to and close friend of Henry VIII. As Jill and her colleagues work to authenticate this rare...

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The Brothers Karamazov (Bantam Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Published: 1984-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 1072 pages

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In 1880 Dostoevsky completed The Brothers Karamazov, the literary effort for which he had been preparing all his life. Compelling, profound, complex, it is the story of a patricide and of the four sons who each had a motive for murder: Dmitry, the sensualist, Ivan, the intellectual; Alyosh...