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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

by William Styron

Published: 1992-01-08

Paperback: 84 pages

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A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery....

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The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company- And Won

by Gerald M. Stern

Published: 2008-05-06

Paperback: 304 pages

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One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people...

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The Underdog Advantage - Rewrite Your Future By Turning Your Disadvantages Into Your Superpowers

by Dean Graziosi

Published: 2019

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WHAT IS THE UNDERDOG ADVANTAGE ALL ABOUT? Do you ever feel stuck in your life? Here's how to FLIP THAT SWITCH! Finally the success road-map for those not born to privilege or advantaged. Do things look good on the outside but on the inside, you feel like a prisoner trapped in mediocrity? Or maybe you...

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A Tale Magnolious

by Suzanne Nelson

Published: 2019-06-18

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Fans of Kate DiCamillo and Katherine Applegate will warm to this story of an orphan and an elephant who band together to save a lovelorn town, relying on an eccentric crew and a couple of miracles along the way. Nitty Luce is an orphan--and a thief. Magnolious is an elephant--and a fugitiv...

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A City of Bells

by Elizabeth Goudge

Published: 1976-05-05

Hardcover: 312 pages

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The White Witch

by Elizabeth Goudge

Published: 2016-04-01

Paperback: 422 pages

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Set in seventeenth-century England at the outbreak of Civil War, "The White Witch" brings to life the fields, forests, and homes of rural Oxfordshire. In the manor house, Margaret Haslewood and her twin children wait for news of her husband Robert, who has gone to fight for the cause of P...

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Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

by Lita Judge

Published: 2018-01-30

Hardcover: 320 pages

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“Both timely and terrifying.” ?Gregory Macguire, New York Times–bestselling author of WickedPairing free verse with over three hundred pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations, Mary’s Monster is a unique and stunning biography of Mary Shelley, the pregnant teenage runaway ...

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Merry Hall (Beverley Nichols Trilogy Book 1)

by Beverley Nichols

Published: 1998-03-01

Hardcover: 342 pages

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First in a trilogy, Merry Hall is the account of the restoration of a house and garden in post-war England. Though Mr. Nichols's horticultural undertaking is serious, his writing is high-spirited, riotously funny, and, at times, deliciously malicious.

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Death in Her Hands: A Novel

by Ottessa Moshfegh

Published: 2020-04-21

Hardcover: 272 pages

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From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she finds a cryptic note on a walk in the woods that ultimately makes her question everything about her new homeWhile on her normal da...

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The Glass Hotel: A novel

by Emily St. John Mandel

Published: 2020-03-24

Hardcover: 320 pages

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From the award-winning author of Station Eleven ("Ingenious." - The New York Times), an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events-a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. Vincent is a barte...