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Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, And Four Years in the White House

by Elizabeth Keckley

Published: 2013-04-11

Paperback: 180 pages

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An autobiographical narrative, BEHIND THE SCENES traces Elizabeth Keckley's life from her enslavement in Virginia and North Carolina to her time as seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln in the White House during Abraham Lincoln's administration. It was quite controversial at the time of its release--an uncompromising...

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The Dream Lover: A Novel

by Elizabeth Berg

Published: 2015-04-14

Hardcover: 368 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY USA TODAY • Elizabeth Berg has written a lush historical novel based on the sensuous Parisian life of the nineteenth-century writer George Sand—which is perfect for readers of Nancy Horan and Elizabeth Gilb...

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Life From Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

by Sasha Martin

Published: 2015-03-03

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Witty, warm, and poignant, food blogger Sasha Martin's memoir about cooking her way to happiness and self-acceptance is a culinary journey like no other.   Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook—and eat—a meal from every country in the world...

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The Tusk That Did the Damage: A novel

by Tania James

Published: 2015-03-10

Hardcover: 240 pages

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From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an infamous elephant known as...

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Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern - Volume 1)

by Anne McCaffrey

Published: 1986-05-12

Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages

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Volume I of The Dragonriders of Pern®, the groundbreaking series by master storyteller Anne McCaffrey On a beautiful world called Pern, an ancient way of life is about to come under attack from a myth that is all too real. Lessa is an outcast survivor—her parents murdered, her birthrigh...

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The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 (Chronicles of Amber)

by Roger Zelazny

Published: 2010-03-30

Paperback: 0 pages

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“Fantasy of a superior order.”—Washington Post Book World< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> “A storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colorful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen.”—George R.R. Martin One of the most revered names in sf and fantasy, the incomparable Roger Zelazny wa...

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Pawn of Prophecy (Belgariad)

by David Eddings

Published: 1986-01-13

Mass Market Paperback: 262 pages

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"Eddings' BELGARIAD is exactly the kind of fantasy I like. It has magic, adventure, humor, mystery, and a certain delightful human insight."Piers AnthonyLong ago, the Storyteller claimed, in this first book of THE BELGARIAD, the evil god Torak drove men and Gods to war. But Belgarath the S...

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Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Book 1)

by Stephen R. Donaldson

Published: 1987-06-12

Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages

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The first book in one of the most remarkable epic fantasies ever written, the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever.He called himself Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever because he dared not believe in the strange alternate world in which he suddenly found himself. Yet he was tempted to bel...

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Copper River: A Novel (Cork O'Connor Mystery Series)

by William Kent Krueger

Published: 2009-08-11

Paperback: 336 pages

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Two-time Anthony Award-winning author William Kent Krueger has "moved to the head of the crime fiction class" (Chicago Sun-Times) with his gripping series featuring Sheriff Cork O'Connor. In Copper River, Cork is running for his life -- and straight into a murderous conspiracy involving t...

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The Religious Affections

by Jonathan Edwards

Published: 2013-08-21

Paperback: 384 pages

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In one of the unsurpassed religious masterpieces produced by an American writer, Jonathan Edwards distinguishes between true and false religion by defining a believer's correct affections and explaining their importance. He further identifies the distinction between genuine-seeming and leg...