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Lilli de Jong: A Novel

by Janet Benton

Published: 2018-07-10T00:0

Paperback: 352 pages

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Library Journal Best Historical Fiction 2017 “A powerful, authentic voice for a generation of women whose struggles were erased from history—a heart-smashing debut that completely satisfies.” —Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sw...

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There is a Generation II: Kids of the Greatest Generation

by WH Buzzard

Published: 2016-01-06

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“A rollicking good tale with plenty of tension but also much humor,” concluded the publisher. “Your characters are well drawn and unique, …making for a strong story.”In the 1950s, the start of the great American culture shift began. The boys and girls who would one day transform ...

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The Hummingbird's Daughter

by Luis Alberto Urrea

Published: 2006-04-03

Paperback: 499 pages

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Discover an epic historical novel of a young saint escaping death from Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels. The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19t...

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Clementine

by Sara Pennypacker

Published: 2008-02-15

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Clementine is having not so good of a week.On Monday she's sent to the principal's office for cutting off Margaret's hair. Tuesday, Margaret's mother is mad at her. Wednesday, she's sent to the principal again. Thursday, Margaret stops speaking to her. Friday starts with yucky eggs and get...

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Goodnight from London: A Novel

by Jennifer Robson

Published: 2017-05-02

Paperback: 400 pages

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From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson—author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France—comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War, and to...

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Fierce Kingdom: A Novel

by Gin Phillips

Published: 2018-07-24

Paperback: 288 pages

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One of the New York Times Book Review's Best Crime Novels of 2017“Warning: you'll finish this in one sitting.” —TheSkimm  “Expertly made thriller . . . clever and irresistible.” —The New York TimesAn electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and ...

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The Steel Remains (A Land Fit for Heroes)

by Richard K. Morgan

Published: 2010-01-12

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A dark lord will rise. Such is the prophecy that dogs Ringil Eskiath—Gil, for short—a washed-up mercenary and onetime war hero whose cynicism is surpassed only by the speed of his sword. Gil is estranged from his aristocratic family, but when his mother enlists his help in freeing a co...

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Murder in an Irish Village (An Irish Village Mystery)

by Carlene O'Connor

Published: 2017-01-31

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Naomi’s Bistro has always been a warm and welcoming spot to visit with neighbors and share a cup o’ tea. But murder has a way of killing business . . .     Nowadays Siobhán O’Sullivan, along with her five siblings, runs the ...

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Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man: A Novel

by Fannie Flagg

Published: 2005-09-13

Paperback: 336 pages

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In Fannie Flagg’s high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where she’s “not doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade.” When she leaves Shell Beach, Mississippi, in September 1959, she is packed up and ready for the Miss America ...

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

by Timothy Snyder

Published: 2017-02-28

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#1 Washington Post BestsellerA New York Times BestsellerThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser ...