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Dear Laura: A Victorian mystery full of dark secrets... (Inspector Lintott Mysteries)

by Jean Stubbs

Published: 2018-11-25

Paperback: 288 pages

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Love historical crime? Discover a new series of classic mysteries perfect for fans of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers…What dark secrets lurk behind closed doors…? Wimbledon, England, 1889When Theodore Crozier is found dead the neighbourhood hopes the cause may be ...

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* * * * * Inspiring,
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Man of the Family

by Ralph Moody

Published: 1993-01-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven. Man of the Family con...

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* * * * Interesting,
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Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

by Wallace Stegner

Published: 2000-12-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to ...

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The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea--and the Marines--from Extinction

by Bill Sloan

Published: 2010-11-23

Paperback: 400 pages

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The Darkest Summer is the dramatic story of the first three months of the Korean War as it has never been told before. A narrative studded with gripping eyewitness accounts, it focuses on the fateful days when the Korean War’s most decisive battles were fought and the Americans who fough...

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* * * * * Optimistic,
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A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers)

by Becky Chambers

Published: 2017-03-14

Paperback: 384 pages

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Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series!A Publishers Weekly "Best Books of 2017" pick!Nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel!Shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award!Winner of the Prix Julia-Verlanger!Embark on an exciting, adventurous, and dangerous journey through the g...

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How to Skimm Your Life

by The Skimm

Published: 2019-06-11

Hardcover: 256 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • It might seem like everyone you know took secret classes on budgeting, owning their career, and choosing the right wine—and you were sick that day. Enter: How to Skimm Your Life.With theSkimm’s trademark mix of real talk, humor, and inspirational messa...

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Walking on the Ceiling: A Novel

by Aysegül Savas

Published: 2019-04-30

Hardcover: 224 pages

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"[Sava?] writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of existence..." -- The New York Times"I fell in love with this book." -- Katie Kitamura, author of A SeparationA mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul...

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Marilou Is Everywhere: A Novel

by Sarah Elaine Smith

Published: 2019-07-30

Hardcover: 288 pages

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One of Los Angeles Times "Most Anticipated Books of the Summer"A SKIMM READS PICKA BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK"This novel reads like a miracle." --NPRConsumed by the longing for a different life, a teenager flees her family and carefully slips into another -- replacing a girl whose own sudde...

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Fodor's Hong Kong (Full-color Travel Guide)

by Fodor's Travel Guides

Published: 2015-06-09

Paperback: 304 pages

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Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years. With cutting-edge architecture, chic restaurants, and hip hotels alongside ancient temples, outdoor markets, and hole-in-the-wall dim sum joints, Hong Kong is an intoxicating ...

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The Huawei Way: Lessons from an International Tech Giant on Driving Growth by Focusing on Never-Ending Innovation

by Yang Shaolong

Published: 2016-11-02

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Model your company’s future on the success of tech’s quiet giantBusinessWeek once listed Chinese tech firm Huawei as one of the ten most influential companies on the planet, and Time placed its founder Ren Zhengfei in the top 100 most influential men in the world. Once considered an in...