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Crossing The Gates Of Alaska

by Dave Metz

Published: 2010-02-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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The snow forms the beginning of a near vertical chute that falls at least a thousand feet. My feet, shaking, manage to hug the thin edge of solid rock. I feel my heart creep to my throat and warm sweat drip down my back, defying the subzero Arctic air. Somehow I reach a plateau and think t...

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* * * * * Romantic,
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Crossing the Tracks

by Barbara Stuber

Published: 2010-07-06

Hardcover: 258 pages

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At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts -- no home, no family, no direction. After her mother's early death, Iris's father focuses on big plans for his new shoe stores and his latest girlfriend, and has no time for his daughter. Unbeknownst to her, he hires Iris out as housekeeper and companio...

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Crossing to Safety

by Wallace Stegner

Published: 1988

Paperback: 341 pages

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one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.

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Crossing To Safety

by Wallace Stegner

Published: 1987

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Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics)

by Wallace Stegner

Published: 2007-12-18

Kindle Edition: 370 pages

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?Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams Afterword by T. H. Watkins   ?Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the gre...

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Crossing with the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail

by Kathryn Ferguson, Norma A. Price, Ted Parks

Published: 2010-04-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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Over the past ten years, more than 4,000 people have died while crossing the Arizona desert to find jobs, join families, or start new lives. Other migrants tell of the corpses they pass?bodies that are never recovered or counted. Crossing With the Virgin collects stories heard from migrant...

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The Crossing

by Cormac McCarthy

Published: 1995-03-14

Unknown Binding: 426 pages

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In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth.In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old...

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Crossroads

by Belva Plain

Published: 2005-12-30

Hardcover: 336 pages

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No one explores the rich tapestry of the human heart as Belva Plain does. Her more than twenty New York Times bestsellers have captivated readers and garnered legions of devoted fans. Now Plain dazzles us once again with a new novel of rare eloquence and raw emotion?a powerful tale about t...

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The Crossroads Cafe

by Deborah Smith

Published: 2006-09-15

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The world's most beautiful movie star is scarred in a firey car accident. Her career over and her self-esteem in shreds, she hides in the magnificent home her grandmother left her in the mountains of North Carolina. But her motherly cousin refuses to let her become a recluse, and a handsome neighbor...

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Crow

by Barbara Wright

Published: 2012-01-10

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times,...