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Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets, One Helping Hand at a Time

by Carissa Phelps

Published: 2012-07-05

Hardcover: 320 pages

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An astonishing story of triumph and a fierce determination to give backCarissa Phelps was a runner. By twelve, she had run away from home, dropped out of school, and fled blindly into the arms of a brutal pimp, who made her walk the hard streets of central California. But even when she esc...

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* * * * Poorly Written,
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Runaway Grandma

by Ann McCauley

Published: 2007-11-07

Paperback: 210 pages

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"Retired widow, Olivia Hampton, age 70, meticulously plans a new future. After faking her suicide , she moves on with a new identity and begins a new life. A haunting tale...can a person ever really escape from the past and start over?" Ann McCauley’s new novel Runaway Grandma will make you laugh...

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The Runaway Jury

by John Grisham

Published: 2007-03-01

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Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him. In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course.��The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juror is convinced he's beingwat...

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* * Gloomy,
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Runaway: Stories

by Alice Munro

Published: 2004

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Winner - 2005 ALA Notable Fiction SelectionA BookPage Notable TitleAlice Munro's superb new collection contains stories about women of all ages and circumstances, from a young woman who wants to leave her husband and a country girl who takes a job at a resort hotel to a woman who can fores...

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Running After Antelope

by Scott Carrier

Published: 2002-03

Paperback: 144 pages

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Collecting nonfiction stories from his radio work, "This American Life" conributor Scott Carrier chronicles is coming-of-age pursuit of a wrioterly life with wit, stkyem and a grand passion for discovery. The wildly various stories in Running After Antelope are connected and illuminated...

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* * * * Adventurous,
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Running Blind (Jack Reacher, No. 4)

by Lee Child

Published: 2007-08-28

Mass Market Paperback: 560 pages

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Jack Reacher races to solve the perfect crime in the fourth novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series. Across the country, women are being murdered, victims of a disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clue...

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* * * * * Optimistic,
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Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games

by Lopez Lomong, Mark Tabb

Published: 2012-07-16

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track and field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, diligence, and the desire to give back. It is the American dream come true and a stark reminder that saving one can help to save thousands more...

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Running From Mercy

by Terra Little

Published: 2008-01-01

Paperback: 318 pages

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Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

by Richard Bach

Published: 1995-11-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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A half-mile up, suspended by nylon wings and the promise of good lift, life hanges on a pledge.  Richard Bach made that pledge, fifty years before, to return to the frightened child he used to be and teach him everything he had learned from living.  His promise went unfulfilled until o...

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Running In Heels: A Novel

by Anna Maxted

Published: 2002-06-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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"To say that Babs has been my closest friend for sixteen years is rather like saying that Einstein was good at sums. We were blood sisters from the age of eleven (before my mother prized the razor out of Babs's hand)."But now Babs, noisy and as fun as a day at the beach, is getting married...