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Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

by Nina Sankovitch

Published: 2011-06-07

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Nina Sankovitch has always been a reader. As a child, she discovered that a trip to the local bookmobile with her sisters was more exhilarating than a ride at the carnival. Books were the glue that held her immigrant family together. When Nina's eldest sister died at the age of forty-six,...

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Tom Clancy Presents: Act of Valor

by Dick Couch, George Galdorisi

Published: 2012-01-10

Paperback: 336 pages

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The Navy SEALs have been fighting terrorists around the world for more than a decade. And for all that time, the Bandito Platoon from SEAL Team Seven has been on continuous combat rotation. Now they have drawn a shipboard assignment off Central America ? an easy day. But for a Navy SEAL, the only easy...

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Tom Rob Smith Collection (the Secret Speech, Child 44)

by Tom Rob Smith

Published: 2011-09-08

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Tom Rob Smith Collection Set (the Secret Speech, Child 44, Agent 6)

by Tom Rob Smith

Published: 2011-09-08

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Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

Published: 2008-06-12

Hardcover: 192 pages

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The book begins in St. Petersburg, Missouri, a small village on the banks of the Mississippi River in the mid-1800s. Tom, a mischievous boy, is hiding from his Aunt Polly while stealing jam from the pantry. When caught, he runs away and goes swimming instead of going to school.The next day...

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Tom-All-Alone's

by Lynn Shepherd

Published: 2012-02-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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London, 1850. Fog in the air and filth in the streets, from the rat-infested graveyard of Tom-All-Alone's to the elegant chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where the formidable lawyer Edward Tulkinghorn has powerful clients to protect, and a deadly secret to hide. Only that secret is now under threat...

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Tomato Girl

by Jayne Pupek

Published: 2008-08-26

Hardcover: 298 pages

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For eleven-year-old Ellie Sanders, her father has always been the rock that she could cling to when her mother's emotional troubles became too frightening. But when he comes under the thrall of the pretty teenager who raises vegetables and tomatoes for sale at the general store that he ru...

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Tomato Girl {Unabridged} {Audio} {Cd}

by Jayne Pupek

Published: 2008

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Drawing favorable comparisons to the literary stylings of Carson McCullers and Kaye Gibbons, Jayne Pupek's debut is hailed by Library Journal as a "wrenching, stunning, and pitch-perfect novel." Eleven-year-old Ellie Sanders is forced to grow up quickly when her pregnant mother develops health problems...

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Tomato Red

by Daniel Woodrell

Published: 1998-08-15

Hardcover: 240 pages

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I was a kickaround mutt from Blue Knee, Arkansas, on my own slow ramble through sincere poverty and various spellbinding mishaps."That's the voice of Sammy Barlach, one of life's losers who sings the blues with acid sweetness and fated violence--another original from Dan Woodrell.The hero ...

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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

by Barry Estabrook

Published: 2011-06-07

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry E...