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The Janes: An Alice Vega Novel

by Louisa Luna

Published: 2020-01-21

Hardcover: 368 pages

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"Lead character Alice Vega is sensational--I want to see lots more of her."--Lee ChildThe electric follow-up to Louisa Luna's acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down, featuring private investigators Alice Vega and Max Caplan.On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discov...

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Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal

by Renia Spiegel

Published: 2019-09-24

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into EnglishRenia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939...

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The Death of Artemio Cruz: A Novel (FSG Classics)

by Carlos Fuentes

Published: 2009-02-03

Paperback: 320 pages

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As the novel opens, Artemio Cruz, the all-powerful newspaper magnate and land baron, lies confined to his bed and, in dreamlike flashes, recalls the pivotal episodes of his life. Carlos Fuentes manipulates the ensuing kaleidoscope of images with dazzling inventiveness, layering memory upon...

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Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save the Mosul Zoo

by Louise Callaghan

Published: 2020-01-14

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba the lion cub, Lula the bear, and countless others, faithfully depicted by acclaimed, award-winning journalist Louise Callaghan in her trade publishing debut.Combining a t...

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Relentless: Changing Lives by Disrupting the Educational Norm

by Hamish Brewer

Published: 2019-06-01

Paperback: 244 pages

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Be Relentless!Hamish Brewer (aka the Tattooed Skateboarding Principal) grew up in a home disrupted by poverty, addiction, and family dysfunction. He understands the feelings of fear, lostness, and desperation that overwhelm too many children today—because that was his life. That experien...

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The Vine Witch

by Luanne G. Smith

Published: 2019-10-01

Paperback: 268 pages

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A young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy of betrayal, vengeance, and self-discovery set in turn-of-the-century France.For centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the...

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The Tribe of Tiger

by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Published: 2001-06-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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From the plains of Africa to her very own backyard, noted author and anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas explores the world of cats, both large and small in this classic bestseller. Inspired by her own feline's instinct to hunt and supported by her studies abroad, Thomas examines the life actions,...

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Fallen Angels

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Mike Flynn

Published: 2002-10-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Forced to land on the frozen world of Earth when a missile destroys their ship, Alex and Gordon soon find themselves on the run from the authorities, which leads them to the last pro-tech group left on Earth--a group determined to send them back into space in twenty extremely complicated stages.

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An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir (Back Bay Books)

by Lillian Hellman

Published: 1999-06-07

Paperback: 304 pages

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Caustic, brilliant, uncompromising, accomplished, Lillian Hellman, one writer noted, can "take the tops off bottles with her teeth". Her career as a playwright began in 1938 with The Children's Hour, the first of seven plays that would bring her international attention and praise. Thirty years later,...

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Murder in Georgetown: An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery

by Elliott Roosevelt

Published: 2000-11-15

Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages

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When the newest member of the Federal Treasury Board is found naked in his Georgetown townhouse with a hole in his head and an earring belonging to his latest mistress on the floor next to him, Lt. Kennelly of the Washington, D.C., police force is convinced he's looking at an easy convicti...