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Dog Crazy: A Novel of Love Lost and Found

by Meg Donohue

Published: 2015-03-10

Paperback: 288 pages

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The USA Today bestselling author of How to Eat a Cupcake and All the Summer Girls returns with an unforgettably poignant and funny tale of love and loss, confronting our fears, and moving on . . . with the help of a poodle, a mutt, and a Basset retriever named Seymour.As a pet bereavement ...

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Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph over Autism

by Catherine Maurice

Published: 1994-07-19

Paperback: 400 pages

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She was a beautiful doelike child, with an intense, graceful fragility. In her first year, she picked up words, smiled and laughed, and learned to walk. But then Anne-Marie began to turn inward. And when her little girl lost some of the words she had acquired, cried inconsolably, and showe...

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Love Amid the Ashes: A Novel

by Mesu Andrews

Published: 2011-03-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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Readers often think of Job sitting on the ash heap, his life in shambles. But how did he get there? What was Job's life like before tragedy struck? What did he think as his world came crashing down around him? And what was life like after God restored his wealth, health, and family? Through painstaking...

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The Alphabet House

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

Published: 2015-02-24

Hardcover: 480 pages

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In the tradition of Alan Furst, the #1 international bestselling author delivers his first stand-alone novel, a psychological thriller set in World War II Nazi Germany and 1970s England British pilots James Teasdale and Bryan Young have been chosen to conduct a special photo-reconnaissance...

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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

by Jon Krakauer

Published: 2015-04-21

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From bestselling author Jon Krakauer, a stark, powerful, meticulously reported narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana ­— stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, wit...

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Existentialism Is a Humanism

by Jean Paul Sartre

Published: 2007-07-24

Paperback: 128 pages

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It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominent European intellectual of the post-World War II decades, accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture (“Existe...

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The Girl With All the Gifts

by M. R. Carey

Published: 2015-04-28

Paperback: 448 pages

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The USA Today bestsellerMelanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She t...

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The Summer Wind (Lowcountry Summer)

by Mary Alice Monroe

Published: 2015-04-28

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

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The Summer Wind is the second book in Monroe’s Lowcountry Summer trilogy, following the New York Times bestselling The Summer Girls. This series is a poignant and heartwarming story of three half-sisters and their grandmother, who is determined to help them rediscover their southern root...

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Last Woman Hanged

by Caroline Overington

Published: 2014-11-01

Kindle Edition: 260 pages

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One woman. Two husbands. Four trials. One bloody execution. The last woman hanged in NSW. In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands died ...

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Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought

by Michael Stephenson

Published: 2008-03-25

Paperback: 448 pages

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Michael Stephenson's Patriot Battles is a comprehensive and richly detailed study of the military aspects of the War of Independence, and a fascinating look at the nuts and bolts of eighteenth-century combat. Covering everything from what motivated those who chose to fight to how they were...