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On the Island: A Novel

by Tracey Garvis Graves

Published: 2012-07-10

Paperback: 336 pages

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Two people stranded on an island struggle to survive—and slowly fall in love—in the runaway New York Times bestseller from the author of the forthcoming novel COVET. Anna Emerson is a thirty-year-old English teacher desperately in need of adventure. Worn down by the cold Chicago winter...

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Passing

by Nella Larsen

Published: 2011-10-04

Paperback: 224 pages

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Generally regarded as Nella Larsen's best work, Passing was first published in 1929 but has received a lot of renewed attention because of its close examination of racial & sexual ambiguities. It has achieved canonical status in many American universities. DISCLAIMER: this version is base...

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Wish You Were Here

by Stewart O'Nan

Published: 2002-05

Hardcover: 517 pages

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Award-winning writer Stewart O'Nan has been acclaimed by critics as one of today's most accomplished novelists and hailed by The New York Times as "a master of voices and the place they resonate from, of human rhythms and the universal rhythms they cut across." Now, with Wish You Were Here,...

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The Boy: A Novel

by Lara Santoro

Published: 2013-01-15

Hardcover: 192 pages

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Once a free spirit who refused to be tied down, Anna is a forty-something single mother trying to put her life together after a bitter divorce. She crosses paths with a twenty-year-old neighbor who could not be more wrong for her---and her life suddenly has a new focus. She is drawn...

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THE HOLE IN OUR GOSPEL

by Richard Stearns

Published: 2009

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Facing Adversity with Audacity

by Gideon F. For-mukwai

Published: 2010-01-01

Paperback: 76 pages

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This is a very engaging book based on compelling stories of human triumph over adversity coming out of Africa, Asia and America. Gideon's personal journey and his account of his mother and uncle in this book exemplify what it means to be truly resilient. The book is moving, well thought out and masterfully...

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Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Affects Our Health

by Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie

Published: 2010-04-06

Paperback: 352 pages

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Funny, thought-provoking, and incredibly disturbing, Slow Death by Rubber Duck reveals that just the living of daily life creates a chemical soup inside each of us.Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes - now, it's personal.The most dangerous pollution ...

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The Annotated Peter Pan (The Centennial Edition) (The Annotated Books)

by J. M. Barrie

Published: 2011-10-11

Hardcover: 504 pages

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"Peter Pan is a great and refining and uplifting benefaction to this sordid and money-mad age."?Mark TwainOne hundred years after J. M. Barrie published the novel Peter and Wendy, Maria Tatar revisits a story that, like Alice in Wonderland, bridges the generations, animating both adults an...

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The Return of Abracadabra (Hocus Pocus Hotel)

by Michael Dahl

Published: 2013-02-01

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Charlie Hitchcock figured out that Brack is really Abracadabra, the missing magician. But as Brack prepares to unveil his true identity to the rest of the world, magical mysteries continue to unfold at his hotel. Charlie and Tyler Yu have solved challenging tricks here before, but can they do it again...

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Bridget Jone's Diary

by Helen Fielding

Published: 1999

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A huge success in England, this marvelously funny debut novel had its genesis in a column Fielding writes for a London newspaper. It's the purported diary, complete with daily entries of calories consumed, cigarettes smoked, "alcohol units" imbibed and other unsuitable obsessions, of a year in the life...