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I Should Be Dead: My Life Surviving Politics, TV, and Addiction

by Bob Beckel

Published: 2015-11-03

Hardcover: 304 pages

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From Bob Beckel, the popular co-host of "The Five" on Fox News Channel, a deeply moving, redemptive memoir about his life as a political operative and diplomat, his long struggle with alcohol and drugs, and his unlikely journey to finding faith. Growing up poor in an abusive home, Bob Beck...

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Sea Glass Island (An Ocean Breeze Novel)

by Sherryl Woods

Published: 2013-05-28

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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Under summer skies, New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods evokes family, friendship and heartfelt emotionWith her two younger sisters heading for the altar, will Samantha Castle exchange old dreams for new ones? Lately she'd rather be on the North Carolina coast with family than ...

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Once Upon a River: A Novel

by Diane Setterfield

Published: 2018-12-04

Hardcover: 480 pages

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“One of the most pleasurable and satisfying new books I've read in a long time. Setterfield is a master storyteller...swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful.” —Madeline Miller, internationally bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles“A beguiling tale, full of twi...

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Kat and Meg Conquer the World

by Anna Priemaza

Published: 2017-11-07

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Kat and Meg couldn't be more different. Kat's anxiety makes it hard for her to talk to new people. The only place she feels safe is in front of her computer, playing her favorite video game. Meg hates being alone, but her ADHD keeps pushing people away. Friends. Her boyfriend. Even the s...

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Collins English Readers)

by Agatha Christie

Published: 2012-02-01

Paperback: 112 pages

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Roger Ackroyd is found dead in a locked room, stabbed with an antique dagger. A number of people have a motive to murder him. The local police are puzzled, but Hercule Poirot brings his forensic skills to bear to solve a complex set of contradictory circumstances with a masterful display of logic and...

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Obasan

by Joy Kogawa

Published: 1994-01

Paperback: 300 pages

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Winner of the American Book AwardBased on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

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The Invisible Crowd

by Ellen Wiles

Published: 2017-11-02

Paperback: 432 pages

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Featured in the Guardian's Readers' Books of the Year `A fierce, big-hearted novel.' Joe Treasure, author of The Book of Air `Pushes us to find our kinder selves.' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You 'A deeply felt novel' Tim Finch,author of The House of Jounalists 2nd March 1975 In Asmara,...

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The Woman at the Light

by Joanna Brady

Published: 2015-12-22

Paperback: 336 pages

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One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry's husband vanishes from Wreckers' Cay, an isolated island off the coast of Key West where he tends to the lighthouse. As days stretch into months, Emily has no choice but take charge of Wrecker's Cay and her husband's duties tending the light to support her three children,...

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The Birth of Venus: A Novel (Reader's Circle)

by Sarah Dunant

Published: 2004-11-30

Paperback: 448 pages

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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra i...

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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

by Shane Bauer

Published: 2018-09-18

Hardcover: 368 pages

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A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana...