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The Home for Unwanted Girls: The heart-wrenching, gripping story of a mother-daughter bond that could not be broken – inspired by true events: The heart-wrenching, ... be broken – inspired by true events

by Joanna Goodman

Published: 2018-04-17

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit—the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other.In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerat...

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In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons From 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules

by Karen Karbo

Published: 2018-02-27

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn from the imperfect and extraordinary legacies of 29 iconic women who forged their own unique paths in the world.Smart, sassy, and unapologetically feminine,...

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A Dog Runs Through It: Poems

by Linda Pastan

Published: 2018-05-01

Hardcover: 80 pages

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A moving selection of poems for dog lovers, accompanied by charismatic line drawings, from a poet with an "unfailing mastery of her medium" (New York Times Book Review).Reflecting on her long and celebrated career in poetry, two-time National Book Award finalist Linda Pastan was struck by ...

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Dog Songs: Poems

by Mary Oliver

Published: 2015-09-29

Paperback: 144 pages

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“The popularity of [Dog Songs] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.” —The Boston Globe Mary Oliver’s Dog Songs is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accomp...

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Great & Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader

Published: 1995-07-01

Hardcover: 1010 pages

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Great and Peculiar Beauty is a celebration of this state's unique, diverse, and evocative literature. This volume contains stories (both fiction and nonfiction), journal entries, interviews, and poetry that illuminate our sense of place as a people. More than 150 years of recorded writing are represented...

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The Shape of Water

by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus

Published: 2018-03-06

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The Academy Award's Best Picture of the year is now the New York Times-bestselling, must-read novel of 2018."[A] phenomenally enrapturing and reverberating work of art in its own right...[that] vividly illuminates the minds of the characters, greatly enhancing our understanding of their te...

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Lotti's Gift: A Story of Old Cass

by John Corns

Published: 2002-07-17

Kindle Edition: 306 pages

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Brendan Matthews comes to the Cass lumber town of 1919 searching for something shrouded in his tortured memories of war. Against the backdrop of the taking of the Red Spruce timber and the churning of the Shay engines on Cass Mountain, he becomes both the hunter and the hunted, pursued by ...

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The Escape Artist

by Brad Meltzer

Published: 2018-03-06

Hardcover: 434 pages

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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px 'Times New Roman'} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Nola Brown, the U.S. Army's artist-in-residence--a painter and trained soldier--sees something nobody was supposed to see and earns a dangerous enemy in t...

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A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial

by James Reston Jr.

Published: 2017-09-05

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Army Veteran Revisits the Culture War that Raged around the Selection of Maya Lin's Design for the Vietnam Memorial A Rift in the Earth tells the remarkable story of the ferocious "art war" that raged between 1979 and 1984 over what kind of m...

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Son of a Midnight Land

by Atz Kilcher

Published: 2018-02-06

Hardcover: 290 pages

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A powerful new memoir by Atz Kilcher about growing up with a hard father in a hard land. Atz Kilcher learned many vital skills while helping his parents carve a homestead out of the Alaskan wilderness: how to work hard, think on his feet, make do, invent, and use what was on hand to accomp...