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Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation

by Alice Connor

Published: 2017-02-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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Women in the Bible aren't shy or retiring; they're fierce and funny and demanding and relevant to 21st-century people.Women in the Biblesome of their names we know, others we've only heard, and others are tragically unnamed.Pastor and provocateur Alice Connor introduces these women and inv...

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The Puritans (American Family Portraits #1)

by Jack Cavanaugh

Published: 2005-09-30

Paperback: 510 pages

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Young Drew Morgan has an enviable position. Handpicked by Bishop Laud, next to the king the most powerful man in England, it is his assignment to infiltrate Puritan villages, turn over "traitors" to the church and crown, and discover the secret identity of the notorious pamphleteer Justin....

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In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book

by Joel Stein

Published: 2019-10-22

Hardcover: 336 pages

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From Thurber finalist and former star TIME columnist Joel Stein comes a "brilliant exploration" (Walter Isaacson) of America's political culture war and a hilarious call to arms for the elite."I can think of no one more suited to defend elitism than Stein, a funny man with hands as delicat...

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Lee and Grant: A Dual Biography

by Gene Smith

Published: 2017-08-29

Paperback: 412 pages

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A biography of the two gifted Civil War commanders from a New York Times–bestselling author: “A great story . . . History at its best” (Publishers Weekly). Their names are forever linked in the history of the Civil War, but Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant could not have been mor...

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The Jane Austen Society: A Novel

by Natalie Jenner

Published: 2020-05-26

Hardcover: 320 pages

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"Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society… A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." ?Pam Jenoff, New York Times ...

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Ricochet River: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Robin Cody

Published: 2017-04-01

Paperback: 300 pages

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It’s 1960. In a small logging town called Calamus that’s about as far in the middle of nowhere as you can get, Wade Curren, star of the high school baseball and football teams, is content living out his role of local hero, holding court in the corner booth of the town diner where his g...

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The Red Lotus: A Novel

by Chris Bohjalian

Published: 2021-01-05T00:0

Paperback: 400 pages

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant comes a twisting story of love and deceit: an American man vanishes on a rural road in Vietnam, and his girlfriend, an emergency room doctor trained to ask questions, follows a path that leads her home to th...

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Perfect People

by Peter James

Published: 2012-06-07

Paperback: 608 pages

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John and Naomi Klaesson are grieving the death of their four-year-old son from a rare genetic disorder. They desperately want another child, but when they find out they are both carriers of a rogue gene, they realize the odds of their next child contracting the disease are high. Then they ...

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A Beginning at the End

by Mike Chen

Published: 2020-01-14

Hardcover: 400 pages

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How do you start over after the end of the world?"Not just an apocalyptic thriller, but also a timely reminder of what is most important in life?family, love, and hope.” ?Peng Shepherd, author of The Book of MSix years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet’s population, ...

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Wild Irish Heart (The Mystic Cove Series)

by Tricia O'Malley

Published: 2014-12-11

Paperback: 258 pages

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It is time… An ancient book, a power untouched, and a heart unloved lead Keelin O'Brien from her graduate studies in Boston to a small village on the coast of Southern Ireland. Determined to unearth the secrets lying hidden in the enchanted waters of the cove, Keelin has little time for a surly Irishman...