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The Sound of Rain

by Sarah Loudin Thomas

Published: 2017-11-07

Paperback: 336 pages

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Judd Markley is a hardworking coal miner who rarely thinks much past tomorrow until he loses his brother--and nearly his own life--in a mine cave-in. Vowing never to enter the darkness of a mine again, he leaves all he knows in West Virginia to escape to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It's ...

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A Place Called Home: Twenty Writing Women Remember

Published: 1997-10-15

Paperback: 257 pages

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The word "home" means something different to each of us. Mickey Pearlman has gathered together a group of writing women whose memories of home present a panorama of experience: Sandra Benítez, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Morris, Kathryn Harrison, Francine Prose, Arlene Hirschfelder, Erica ...

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Angels on Toast

by Dawn Powell

Published: 1998-06-01

Paperback: 245 pages

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Everyone in Dawn Powell's New York satire Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrepeneur who ricochets frantically between his well-connected current wife, his disreputable ex, and his dangerously greedy mistress; Trina Kameray, the exotic adventuress whose job title is as p...

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Outfoxed: An Andy Carpenter Mystery (An Andy Carpenter Novel)

by David Rosenfelt

Published: 2017-06-27

Paperback: 336 pages

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In OUTFOXED by David Rosenfelt, New Jersey defense lawyer Andy Carpenter spends as much time as he can working on his true passion, the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs. Lately, Andy has been especially involved in a county prison program where inmates help train dogs t...

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Quartet in Autumn

by Barbara Pym

Published: 1992-07-15

Paperback: 224 pages

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Shortlisted for the 1977 Booker PrizeThis is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they suffer the same problem - loneliness. Lovingly, poignantly, satirically and with much humo...

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My Jim: A Novel

by Nancy Rawles

Published: 2006-01-24

Paperback: 190 pages

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To help her granddaughter accept the risks of loving, Sadie Watson mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim. Sadie’s Jim was an ambitious young slave and seer who, when faced with the prospect of being sold, escaped down the Mississippi with a white boy nam...

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The Kindness of Strangers: A Skip Langdon Novel

by Julie Smith

Published: 1996-07-09

Hardcover: 338 pages

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Julie Smith's New Orleans is not a city, it's a world--exotic, sweetly perverse, dangerously seductive. Nowhere else does politics make stranger bedfellows; and the approaching mayoral election is stranger than most, pitting the usual thugs and vipers against a seeming breath of fresh air-...

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Memento Mori

by Muriel Spark

Published: 2000-06

Paperback: 224 pages

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Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, "Remember you must die."...

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Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure

by Stuart Stevens

Published: 1994-01-13

Paperback: 236 pages

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Introducing the life cycles of the main animal groups, this series provides an overview of key physical characteristics and covers the life cycle from birth, or hatching, to death, looking at growing up, feeding, mating, keeping safe, threats and survival. Each title includes simple charts and graphs...

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Ever After (Lost Love Series)

by Karen Kingsbury

Published: 2013-10-30

Paperback: 368 pages

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Two couples torn apart?one by war between countries, one by war within. In this moving sequel to Even Now, Emily Anderson, now twenty, is attending college on a soccer scholarship when she meets the man who changes everything for her: Army reservist Justin Baker. Their tender relationship,...