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The Quaker Café

by Brenda Bevan Remmes

Published: 2014-03-25

Paperback: 400 pages

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A debut novel brimming with Southern heart about a small town where, regardless of what happens behind closed doors, the neighbors awake each morning and meet at the Quaker Café. *** When Liz Hoole, a free-spirited liberal from the Midwest, marries into a conservative Quaker family in a small rural...

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A Piece of the Fox's Hide

by Katharine Boling

Published: 1984-04-01

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This chilling account of the powerful Bigham family has its beginnings in the late 1700s. The grip of terror the family held on inhabitants of northeastern South Carolina lasted over 100 years. Defying the laws of man and God, the Bighams established themselves as lords--acquiring land and...

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Ghost Boy: The Miraculous Escape of a Misdiagnosed Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body

by Martin Pistorius

Published: 2013-11-19

Paperback: 288 pages

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They all thought he was gone. But he was alive and trapped inside his own body for ten years.In January 1988 Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within...

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I Am Hutterite: The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage

by Mary-Ann Kirkby

Published: 2011-05-10

Paperback: 272 pages

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"Your mother and father are running away," said a voice piercing the warm air. I froze and turned toward home. To a Hutterite, nothing is more shameful than that word, running away, Weglaufen..."In 1969, Ann-Marie's parents did the unthinkable. They left a Hutterite colony in Canada w...

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Moving Day: A Thriller

by Jonathan Stone

Published: 2014-06-01

Paperback: 284 pages

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Forty years’ accumulation of art, antiques, and family photographs are more than just objects for Stanley Peke—they are proof of a life fully lived. A life he could have easily lost long ago.When a con man steals his houseful of possessions in a sophisticated moving-day scam, Peke wand...

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The Pumpkin Eater (New York Review Books Classics)

by Penelope Mortimer

Published: 2011-04-26

Paperback: 224 pages

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The Pumpkin Eater is a surreal black comedy about the wages of adulthood and the pitfalls of parenthood. A nameless woman speaks, at first from the precarious perch of a therapist’s couch, and her smart, wry, confiding, immensely sympathetic voice immediately captures and holds our atten...

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by eileen goudge

Published: 2009

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Words in the Dust

by Trent Reedy

Published: 2013-09-24

Paperback: 272 pages

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Winner of the Christopher Medal and a "heart-wrenching" Al Roker's Book Club selection on the Today Show.Zulaikha hopes. She hopes for peace, now that the Taliban have been driven from Afghanistan; a good relationship with her hard stepmother; and one day even to go to school, or to have h...

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The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

Published: 2014-10-16

Paperback: 376 pages

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Bill is an IT manager at Parts Unlimited. It's Tuesday morning and on his drive into the office, Bill gets a call from the CEO. The company's new IT initiative, code named Phoenix Project, is critical to the future of Parts Unlimited, but the project is massively over budget and very late....

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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion: A New Abridgement from the Second and Third Editions (Oxford World's Classics)

by James George Frazer

Published: 2009-04-15

Paperback: 858 pages

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A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature.First published in 1890, The Golden Bough was eventually issued in a twelve-volume editi...