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Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller

by Sarah Miller

Published: 2010-08-31

Paperback: 256 pages

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Annie Sullivan was little more than a half-blind orphan with a fiery tongue when she arrived at Ivy Green in 1887. Desperate for work, she?d taken on a seemingly impossible job?teaching a child who was deaf, blind, and as ferocious as any wild animal. But if anyone was a match for Helen Ke...

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Miss Timmins' School for Girls: A Novel

by Nayana Currimbhoy

Published: 2011-06-21

Paperback: 496 pages

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A murder at a British boarding school in the hills of western India launches a young teacher on the journey of a lifetime In 1974, three weeks before her twenty-first birthday, Charulata Apte arrives at Miss Timmins' School for Girls in Panchgani. Shy, sheltered, and running from a scan...

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Miss Understanding

by Stephanie Lessing

Published: 2006-11-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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The Missing (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Tim Gautreaux

Published: 2010-03-09

Paperback: 384 pages

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A masterful novel set in 1920s Louisiana, The Missing is the story of Sam Simoneaux, a floorwalker at a New Orleans department store. When a little girl is kidnapped on Sam's watch he is haunted by guilt, grief, and ghosts from his own troubled past. Determined to find her, Sam sets out on...

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Missing Joseph

by Elizabeth George

Published: 2008-04-15

Paperback: 592 pages

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Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead?a victim of accidental poisoning. ...

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Missing Lucile: Memories of the Grandmother I Never Knew (Shannon Ravenel Books)

by Suzanne Berne

Published: 2010-10-12

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father's terrible melancholy: he?d lost his mother when he was a little boy. Decades later, with her father now elderly and ailing, she decides to try to uncover the woman who continues to haunt him. Every family has a missing per...

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* * * Interesting,
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Missing Mark

by Julie Kramer

Published: 2009-07-14

Hardcover: 288 pages

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In this page-turning sequel to Stalking Susan, TV reporter Riley Spartz pursues a curious story of a bride left at the altar and finds herself caught in a dangerous missing-person case. When Riley Spartz sees a want ad reading ?Wedding Dress for Sale: Never Worn,? her news instincts tell h...

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* * * * * Dramatic,
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Missing Mom: A Novel (P.S.)

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 2006-08-22

Paperback: 464 pages

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Nikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet, following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes a remarkable transformation during a tumultuous year that brings stunning horror, ...

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The Missing of the Somme

by Geoff Dyer

Published: 2001-12-31

Paperback: 176 pages

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"Head bowed, rifle on his back, a soldier is silhouetted against the going down of the sun, looking at the grave of a dead comrade, remembering him..." A poetic and impressionistic tribute to those who perished in World War I--and those who lived, haunted by their memories. "Brilliant--the...

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Missing Persons (Dr. Alan Gregory Novels)

by Stephen White

Published: 2005-03-03

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The stakes have just been raised for psychologist Alan Gregory: His friend and fellow therapist Hannah Grant has died at the office, mysteriously and suddenly. The police are baffled, leaving another apparent homicide unsolved in Boulder, Colorado. Only Alan has the means to decipher Ha...