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Jesus' Son: Stories

by Denis Johnson

Published: 2009-02-17

Paperback: 133 pages

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Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiraling grief and trancendence, of rock bottom and redemption, of getting lost an dfound and lost again. The raw beauty and careening energy of Denis Johnson's prose has earned this book a pla...

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* * * Informative

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Ordinary Heroes: A Novel

by Edward Herrmann (Narrator) Scott Turow (Author)

Published: 2005

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A fiction, it a story about young people in modern society.

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Remember Us: My Journey from the Shtetl Through the Holocaust

by Vic Shayne, Martin Small

Published: 2009-10-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Remember Us is a look back at the lost world of the shtetl: a wise Zayde offering prophetic and profound words to his grandson, the rich experience of Shabbos, and the treasure of a loving family. All this is torn apart with the arrival of the Holocaust, beginning a crucible fraught with t...

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The Damnable Legacy of a Minister's Wife

by G Elizabeth Kretchmer

Published: 2014-06-09

Paperback: 424 pages

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Lynn Van Swol still regrets the decision she made thirty years ago to place her daughter for adoption so she could climb the highest mountains of the world. Frankie Rizzoni is the troubled biological granddaughter Lynn has never known. And Beth Mahoney is a minister’s wife with terminal cancer and...

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Flying Shoes: A Novel

by Lisa Howorth

Published: 2014-06-17

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn’t resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities, had ...

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The Ghost Road

by Pat Barker

Published: 1995-12-01

Hardcover: 256 pages

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As World War I winds to a close, two men--Dr. William Rivers, a psychologist whose dedicated healing sends men back to the brutal front, and Billy Prior, a shell-shocked soldier determined to rejoin the final English offensive--are profounded affected by the events of the era. Winner of the 1995...

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Of Poseidon (Syrena Legacy)

by Anna Banks

Published: 2013-04-30

Paperback: 384 pages

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Galen, a Syrena prince, searches land for a girl he’s heard can communicate with fish. It’s while Emma is on vacation at the beach that she meets Galen. Although their connection is immediate and powerful, Galen’s not fully convinced that Emma’s the one he’s been looking for. Tha...

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Sweetness #9: A Novel

by Stephan Eirik Clark

Published: 2014-08-19

Hardcover: 352 pages

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"Funny and moving. After this, nothing will ever taste the same again."--T. C. Boyle It's 1973, and David Leveraux has landed his dream job as a Flavorist-in-Training, working in the secretive industry where chemists create the flavors for everything from the cherry in your can of soda to ...

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Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer

by Matthew Gavin Frank

Published: 2014-07-07

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Memory, mythology, and obsession collide in this strikingly original and enigmatic account of the first man to photograph a giant squid. Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed the near-mythic giant squid in 1874, draping it over a...

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Mean Streak

by Sandra Brown

Published: 2014-08-19

Hardcover: 416 pages

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From #1 New York Times best-selling author Sandra Brown comes a heart-pounding story of survival, that takes the age-old question, "Does the end justify the means?" and turns it on its head.Dr. Emory Charbonneau, a pediatrician and marathon runner, disappears on a mountain road in North Ca...