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Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women

by Catherine Thimmesh

Published: 2002-03-11

Paperback: 64 pages

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In kitchens and living rooms, in garages and labs and basements, even in converted chicken coops, women and girls have invented ingenious innovations that have made our lives simpler and better. Their creations are some of the most enduring (the windshield wiper) and best loved (the chocol...

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The Talisman Ring (Regency Romances)

by Georgette Heyer

Published: 2009-03-01

Kindle Edition: 323 pages

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"... A long-lost family heirloom, a young heir falsely accused of murder, a band of smugglers, two utterly delightful Heyer heroines, a taciturn, but highly resourceful older gentleman - all play their parts in a tale funny enough to have you laughing aloud."—Publishers WeeklyOne of Heye...

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Together Forever (Orphan Train)

by Jody Hedlund

Published: 2018-05-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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Marianne Neumann has one goal in life: to find her lost younger sister, Sophie. When Marianne takes a job as a placing agent with the Children's Aid Society in 1858 New York, she not only hopes to give children a better life but seeks to discover whether Sophie ended up leaving the city on...

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A Taste of My Own Medicine: When the Doctor Is the Patient

by Edward E. Rosenbaum

Published: 1988-04-12

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The author, a doctor, describes his experiences as a cancer patient and shares his observations on the practice of modern medicine

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The Very Marrow of Our Bones: A Novel

by Christine Higdon

Published: 2018-04-03

Paperback: 488 pages

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Defiance, faith, and triumph in a heartrending novel about daughters and mothers On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a t...

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The Space Between

by Dete Meserve

Published: 2018-07-24

Paperback: 300 pages

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The truth isn’t what it seems in this stirring novel of suspense.After presenting a major scientific breakthrough to a rapt audience across the country, renowned astronomer Sarah Mayfield returns home to a disturbing discovery. Her husband, Ben, a Los Angeles restaurateur, has disappeare...

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The Exodus Towers: The Dire Earth Cycle: Two

by Jason M. Hough

Published: 2013-08-27

Mass Market Paperback: 544 pages

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The Exodus Towers features all the high-octane action and richly imagined characters of The Darwin Elevator—but the stakes have never been higher.   The sudden appearance of a second space elevator in Brazil only deepens the mystery about the aliens who provided it: the Builders. Scaven...

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There Your Heart Lies: A Novel

by Mary Gordon

Published: 2018-04-03

Paperback: 336 pages

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At nineteen, Marian Taylor cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family and left America to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War—an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties and diagnosed with cancer, Marian finally shares what happened to her d...

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The Splintering of the American Mind: Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today’s College Campuses

by William Egginton

Published: 2018-08-28

Hardcover: 272 pages

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A timely, provocative, necessary look at how identity politics has come to dominate college campuses and higher education in America at the expense of a more essential commitment to equality.Thirty years after the culture wars, identity politics is now the norm on college campuses-and it h...

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The Hand of Ethelberta

by Thomas Hardy

Published: 2015-09-17

Paperback: 160 pages

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At the beginning of the book, we are told that Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but, through her work as a governess, married well at the age of eighteen. Her husband died two weeks after the wedding and, now twenty-one, Ethelberta lives with her mother-in-law, Lady Petherwin. In the three...