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The Broker: A Novel

by John Grisham

Published: 2012-03-27

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn his final hours in office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues t...

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Shane

by Jack Schaefer

Published: 2014-03-18

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I had lain in my bed thinking of our visitor out in the bunk in the barn. It scarce seemed possible that he was the same man I had first seen, stern and chilling in his dark solitude, riding up our road. Something in father, something not of words or of actions but of the essential substan...

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To Watch the People Go By

by Chuck Nicholson

Published: 2002-07-19

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For nine year old Roger Stanton, the worst part about life in 1956 has always been being forced to go uptown on Saturday nights with his family to watch the people go by. He has always been content to let the adults worry about McCarthyism, atomic bombs, and backyard fallout shelters. Ro...

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Tallgrass: A Novel

by Sandra Dallas

Published: 2008-02-05

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During Word War II, a family fnds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. This is her town as Rennie Stroud ha...

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Dreamers of the Day: A Novel

by Mary Doria Russell

Published: 2008-12-16

Paperback: 288 pages

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With prose as graceful and effortless as a seductive float down the Nile, Mary Doria Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East with a story that brilliantly elucidates today’s headlines.Agnes Shanklin, a forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, has come into a modest i...

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An Irish Country Christmas: A Novel (Irish Country Books)

by Patrick Taylor

Published: 2009-10-27

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Barry Laverty, M.B., is looking forward to his first Christmas in the cozy village of Ballybucklebo, at least until he learns that his sweetheart, Patricia, might not be coming home for the holidays. That unhappy prospect dampens his spirits somewhat, but Barry has little time to dwell on ...

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Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob

by Jeff Coen

Published: 2010-09-01

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Even in Chicago, a city steeped in mob history and legend, the Family Secrets case was a true spectacle when it made it to court in 2007. A top mob boss, a reputed consigliere, and other high-profile members of the Chicago Outfit were accused in a total of eighteen gangland killings, revea...

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Escape From Home (Beyond the Western Sea)

by Avi

Published: 2012-03-01

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Avi's suspense-filled, seafaring adventure gets a bold new package!It's 1851. Fifteen-year-old Maura O'Connell and her twelve-year-old brother Patrick are about to set sail on an epic voyage to America to flee the brutal poverty of Ireland and to be reunited with their father.Eleven-year-o...

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What Child Is This

by Caroline B. Cooney

Published: 2000-09

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Sixteen-year-old Matt knows not to expect anything of life, or people or Christmas. But his foster sister, Katie, hasn't yet learnt not to hope. When all the foster kids make their Christmas wishes, Katie asks for a family. Matt reckons no-one gets a family for Christmas - do they?

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The Child Buyer

by John Hersey

Published: 1960-09-12

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This is a story of an investigation into the activities of Mr. Wissey Jones, a stranger who comes to the town of Pequot on urgent defense business. His business is to buy for his corporation children of a certain sort, in this case a ten-year-old named Barry Rudd, a budding genius of pote...