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The Cranes Dance

by Meg Howrey

Published: 2012-05-15

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''I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake last night.'' So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company. Kate is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world, a world she can't help satirizing even as she balances injury and self-d...

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* * * Interesting,
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Cranford

by Elizabeth Gaskell

Published: 2009-01-01

Paperback: 108 pages

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The most well-known and well-liked of Gaskell's works, this softly humorous picture of an English country village was first serialized in a magazine edited by Charles Dickens in 1851. Based on the village of Gaskell's childhood, "Cranford" is narrated by a young woman visiting the town who describes...

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Cranford (Penguin Classics)

by Elizabeth Gaskell

Published: 2008-04-01

Paperback: 213 pages

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A gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Rich with humor and filled with vi...

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* * * * * Scary

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Crank

by Ellen Hopkins

Published: 2004-10-05

Paperback: 544 pages

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Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina -- she's fearless. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: cra...

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Crank: Crank + Glass (Crank Series)

by Ellen Hopkins

Published: 2009-10-27

Paperback: 1264 pages

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The heart-wrenching bestselling Crank trilogy shows that addiction is never just one person's problem. Crank Kristina is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. Then she meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ride turns into a struggle for he...

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* * * * Informative,
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Crash Into Me: A Survivor's Search for Justice

by Liz Seccuro

Published: 2011-01-04

Hardcover: 256 pages

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In September 2005, Liz Seccuro's world turned upside down when she received an apology letter from the man who had raped her twenty-two years earlier. The rape, which occurred when she was a seventeen-year-old freshman at the University of Virginia, was reported to the campus police, but t...

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The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets

by George Soros

Published: 2009-03-30

Paperback: 288 pages

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In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros, the legendary financier and philanthropist, writes about the origins of the crisis and proposes a set of policies that should be adopted to confront it. Soros, whose breadth of experience ...

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Crashers

by Dana Haynes

Published: 2010-06-22

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Whenever a plane goes down in the U.S., a "Go Team" made up of experts is assembled by the NTSB to investigate. Those people - each of them a leading expert in a specific area  - are known as informally as "Crashers."When a passenger plane, a Vermeer One Eleven, slams into the ground ou...

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Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See

by Robert Kurson

Published: 2007-05-15

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In his critically acclaimed bestseller Shadow Divers, Robert Kurson explored the depths of history, friendship, and compulsion. Now Kurson returns with another thrilling adventure–the stunning true story of one man’s heroic odyssey from blindness into sight.Mike May spent his l...

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Crawfish Dreams

by Nancy Rawles

Published: 2004-02-10

Paperback: 368 pages

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For forty years Camille Broussard has cooked for other people. As a young bride she moved from Louisiana to Los Angeles and settled in the thriving community of Watts; but many of her hopes went up in the flames of the 1965 riots. Now it's 1984--and she's determined to cook for herself. ...