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Before The Storm

by Diane Chamberlain

Published: 2008-06-01

Paperback: 480 pages

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Fifteen-year-old Andy Lockwood is special.Others notice the way he blurts out anything that comes into his mind, how he cannot foresee consequences, that he's more child than teenager. But his mother sees a boy with a heart as open and wide as the ocean.Laurel Lockwood lost her son once th...

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Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV

by Karleen Koen

Published: 2011-06-28

Hardcover: 480 pages

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Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man?the man before Versailles?   After the death of his prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps into governing France. He's still a young man, but one who...

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Before We Were Free (Readers Circle)

by Julia Alvarez

Published: 2004-04-13

Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages

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Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family b...

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Before Women Had Wings

by Connie May Fowler

Published: 1999-03-01

Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages

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Starstruck by a dime-store picture of Jesus, Avocet Abigail "Bird" Jackson fancies herself "His girlfriend" and embarks upon a spiritual quest for salvation, even as the chaos of her home life plunges her into a stony silence. In stark and honest language, Bird tells the tragic tale of her...

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Before You Cast a Spell: Understanding the Power of Magic

by carl mccolman

Published: 2000-09-05

Paperback: 192 pages

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Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

by Danielle Evans

Published: 2010-09-23

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Introducing a new star of her generation, an electric debut story collection about young African-American and mixed-race teens, women, and men struggling to find a place in their families and communities. When Danielle Evans's short story "Virgins" was published in The Paris Review in la...

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The Beggar King: A Hangman's Daughter Tale

by Oliver Pötzsch

Published: 2013-01-08

Paperback: 466 pages

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The year is 1662. Alpine village hangman Jakob Kuisl receives a letter from his sister calling him to the imperial city of Regensburg, where a gruesome sight awaits him: her throat has been slit. Arrested and framed for the murder, Kuisl faces first-hand the torture he’s administered him...

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Beggars in Spain: The Original Hugo & Nebula Winning Novella

by Nancy Kress

Published: 2011-10-15

Paperback: 100 pages

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PLEASE NOTE: This is the original novella which won the Hugo and Nebula awards. Leisha Camden is a genetically engineered 'Sleepless.' Her ability to stay awake all the time has not only made her more productive, but the genetic modifications have also given the 'Sleepless' a higher IQ and may even make...

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The Beggar's Opera

by Peggy Blair

Published: 2013-02-26

Paperback: 352 pages

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IN BEAUTIFUL, CRUMBLING OLD Havana, detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will save his troubled marriage. He doesn?t yet know that it's dead in the water, much like the little Cuban boy last seen begging the couple for a few pesos on the world famous Malecón. For Inspector Ricardo ...

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Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All

by Robert Egger

Published: 2004-02

Hardcover: 240 pages

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You are a good person. You are one of the 84 million Americans who volunteer with a charity. You are part of a national donor pool that contributes nearly $200 billion to good causes every year. But you wonder: Why don't your efforts seem to make a difference?Fifteen years ago, Robert Egg...