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Rain of Gold

by Victor Villasenor

Published: 2015-03-31

Paperback: 544 pages

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Rain of Gold is a true-life saga of love, family and destiny that pulses with bold vitality, sweeping from the war-ravaged Mexican mountains of Pancho Villa s revolution to the days of Prohibition in California. It all began when Villasenor s maternal grandmother sat him down in their litt...

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Murder at Harbor Village

by GP Gardner

Published: 2018-11-13

Paperback: 216 pages

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Young retiree Cleo Mack is trading in academia for a second act in Harbor Village, a community for active seniors in coastal Alabama. But someone in this picture-perfect coastal town is burning the candle at both ends... It's love at first sight when Cleo arrives in Fairhope, Alabama, afte...

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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

by David McCullough

Published: 2019-05-07

Hardcover: 352 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that w...

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A Good High Place

by L.E. Kimball

Published: 2010-05-21

Paperback: 250 pages

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 Epic and nonlinear in nature, A Good High Place chronicles the lives of two women—Luella and Kachina—who, like the orbit of the sun and the moon, both attract and repel each other. Luella’s suspicion that her younger sister—who supposedly died at birth—is being raised as the si...

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Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions

by Rachel Held Evans

Published: 2014-04-08

Paperback: 240 pages

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Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.In Faith Unraveled, Rachel recounts growing up in a culture obses...

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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

by Leonard Susskind

Published: 2009-07-22

Paperback: 480 pages

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At the beginning of the 21st century, physics is being driven to very unfamiliar territory--the domain of the incredibly small and the incredibly heavy. The new world is a world in which both quantum mechanics and gravity are equally important. But mysteries remain. One of the biggest invo...

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White Lake

by Susan Amond Todd

Published: 2016-10-15

Paperback: 306 pages

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Cynthia Lewis was living a predictable life in suburbia. Big house, daughter in college, son in his last year of high school, career as a nurse at the local hospital, and a successful husband. Life was good. She and her husband Philip were so close ... she knew him so well ... or did she?�...

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Unholy Land

by Lavie Tidhar

Published: 2018-11-06

Paperback: 288 pages

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Selected as a Best Book of 2018 by NPR Books, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and the UK Guardian.From the bestselling author of Central Station comes an extraordinary new novel recalling China Miéville and Michael Chabon, entertaining and subversive in equal measures. Lior Tirosh is ...

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Bared to You (A Crossfire Novel)

by Sylvia Day

Published: 2014-02-04

Paperback: 352 pages

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day comes the first novel in the Crossfire series—a provocative masterstroke of abandon and obsession that redefined the meaning of desire, and became a global phenomenon. Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness...  ...

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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

by Anne Lister

Published: 2012-06-19

Paperback: 448 pages

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ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, A NEW BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES.'Engaging, revealing, at times simply astonishing: Anne Lister's diaries are an indispensable read for anyone interested in the history of gender, sexuality, and the intimate...