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Coming Ashore: A Memoir

by Catherine Gildiner

Published: 2014-10-14

Hardcover: 396 pages

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Picking up her story in the late ’60s at age 21, Cathy Gildiner whisks the reader through five years and three countries, beginning when she is a poetry student at Oxford. Her education extended beyond the classroom to London’s swinging Carnaby Street, the mountains of Wales, and a pos...

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22 daydreams: (or Wood, Talc & Mr. J, my social media ramblings thereof )

by Chris Rose

Published: 2014-10-01

Kindle Edition: 199 pages

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A journey, yes, of sorts. With purpose, yes, that too. An author from another time, endeavouring to unearth space in today’s cyber world – and hopefully be less ambiguous with his planetarian/galactic metaphors. And to generally find his way around in the attempt; all with the lofty...

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Ride Around Shining: A Novel

by Chris Leslie-Hynan

Published: 2014-08-05

Hardcover: 240 pages

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A provocative debut novel about a young white chauffeur and his wealthy black employer, an NBA player—a twenty-first century inversion of what we’ve come to expect stories of race and class to look like, and a discomfiting portrait of envy and obsession.Ride Around Shining concerns the...

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White Noise: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Don DeLillo

Published: 2009-12-29

Paperback: 336 pages

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Winner of the 1985 National Book Award Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra­modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Whe...

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The Jump-Off Creek

by Molly Gloss

Published: 2005-08-03

Paperback: 208 pages

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A reading group favorite, The Jump-Off Creek is the unforgettable story of widowed homesteader Lydia Sanderson and her struggles to settle in the mountains of Oregon in the 1890s. “Every gritty line of the story rings true” (Seattle Times) as Molly Gloss delivers an authentic and movin...

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* * * * Interesting,
Inspiring,
Beautiful

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Evergreen: A novel

by Rebecca Rasmussen

Published: 2014-07-15

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From the celebrated author of The Bird Sisters, a gorgeously rendered and emotionally charged novel that spans generations, telling the story of two siblings, raised apart, attempting to share a life.It is 1938 when Eveline, a young bride, follows her husband into the wilderness of Minne...

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A Life In Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley

by Warren Lehrer

Published: 2013-10-29

Hardcover: 380 pages

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A LIFE IN BOOKS: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley is an illuminated novel containing 101 books within it, all written by Lehrer’s protagonist who finds himself in prison looking back on his life and career. Nearly a year after the controversial author is thrown into a federal prison for ...

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Stop Bullying (True Books: Guides to Life)

by Lucia Raatma

Published: 2013-01-01

Paperback: 48 pages

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Sometimes the most difficult skills to learn are the basic ones that help us stay healthy and safe. With this new True Book series, readers will discover how to think critically about some of the everyday decisions they will face throughout their lives, from dealing with bullies to choosin...

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The Child Who: A Novel

by Simon Lelic

Published: 2012-02-28

Paperback: 303 pages

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An unimaginable crime and the man who must defend it-a probing psychological thriller from the author of A Thousand Cuts.A chance phone call throws the biggest muder case in southern England into the hands of provincial attorney Leo Curtice. Twelve-year- old Daniel Blake stands accused of ...

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Carved in Bone: A Body Farm Novel

by Jefferson Bass

Published: 2013-05-28

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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The Body Farm is a patch of ground in Tennessee dedicated to the science of death, where human remains lie exposed to be studied for their secrets. Renowned anthropologist Dr. Bill Brockton has spent his career surrounded by death at the Body Farm. Now he's being called upon to help solve ...