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Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

by Jud Newborn, Annette Dumbach

Published: 2007-06-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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In the spring and summer of 1942, five young German students and one professor at the University of Munich crossed the threshold of toleration to enter the realms of resistance, danger and death. Protesting in the name of principles Hitler thought he had killed forever, Sophie Scholl and...

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Donavan: From Michael Bunker's World of

by D.K. Cassidy

Published: 2014-10-10

Kindle Edition: 20 pages

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In Michael Bunker's “Pennsylvania”, we briefly met Donavan Yoder--a young man divided. Born in the Amish Zone, he was raised to embrace a plain, peaceful life. After he grows up, Donavan becomes an officer with the Transport Authority, the tyrannical government grinding New Pennsylvania under its...

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Blood on the Snow (The Soldier Chronicles Book 3)

by David Cook

Published: 2014-09-10

Kindle Edition: 94 pages

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Winter, 1794, Flanders, and the British are retreating. Faced by appalling weather and pursued by an overwhelming enemy, the very survival of the British Army is at stake. With little supplies and ammunition, Lieutenant Jack Hallam of the 28th Regiment must prove himself by leading his ...

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Liberty or Death (The Soldier Chronicles Book 1)

by David Cook

Published: 2014-04-25

Kindle Edition: 97 pages

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It is May, 1798, and Ireland is a country at war. One hundred thousand peasants have risen up against the Crown to the tales of men, women and children butchered as traitors. It is whispered that the feared and despised ghosts of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model army have returned seeking b...

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The Wall

by Marlen Haushofer

Published: 2013-06-11

Paperback: 244 pages

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?I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead?” writes the heroine of Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall, a quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human being. Surmising her solitude is the...

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Nowhere Is a Place

by Bernice L. McFadden

Published: 2013-02-05

Paperback: 320 pages

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?Nowhere Is a Place is a powerful portrait of family secrets, damage, and healing, probing deep below the surface of an African American family’s history to mend present day relationships . . . Ms. McFadden has a beautiful writing style that is simultaneously lyrical and transparent. In ...

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Dreamland

by Kevin Baker

Published: 2006-01-03

Paperback: 688 pages

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A literary tour de force, a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreamsIn a stunning work of imagination and memory, author Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant, colorful, thrilling, and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century....

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The People in the Trees

by Hanya Yanagihara

Published: 2014-05-06

Paperback: 496 pages

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A Best Book of the Year The Wall Street Journal * Publishers Weekly * Huffington Post * Cosmopolitan A Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle Notable BookIt is 1950 when Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumored lost...

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Mercy Snow: A Novel

by Tiffany Baker

Published: 2014-01-14

Hardcover: 336 pages

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In the tiny town of Titan Falls, New Hampshire, the paper mill dictates a quiet, steady rhythm of life. But one day a tragic bus accident sets two families on a course toward destruction, irrevocably altering the lives of everyone in their wake.June McAllister is the wife of the local mill...

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Rape: A Love Story (Papel de liar)

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 2004-12-21

Paperback: 156 pages

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Teena Maguire should not have tried to shortcut her way home that Fourth of July. Not after midnight, not through Rocky Point Park. Not the way she was dressed in a tank top, denim cutoffs, and high-heeled sandals. Not with her twelve-year-old daughter Bethie. Not with packs of local guys ...