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Lost Child of Philomena Lee

by Martin Sixsmith

Published: 2010-05-21

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When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced...

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The Gone-Away World

by Nick Harkaway

Published: 2008-09-02

Hardcover: 512 pages

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About the 'neon fuzz': a note on the book jacket from designer Jason Booher..."When you read Harkaway's novel, a gigantic sense of weirdness and cool and doom surround the characters. To capture all that plus the absurd humor that pervades this amazing book, the jacket obviously had to be ...

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The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo

by Paula Huntley

Published: 2004-02-02

Paperback: 255 pages

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A moving testimony to the power of literature to bring people together in even the most difficult of circumstances.In the spring of 1999, the world watched as more than 800,000 Kosovo Albanians poured over Kosovo's borders, bringing with them stories of torture, rape, and massacre. One yea...

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The Homespun Wisdom of Myrtle T. Cribb

by Sheri Reynolds

Published: 2012-10-02

Hardcover: 230 pages

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author Sheri Reynolds returns with a “nontraditional devotional”—at once a hilarious and inspirational novel packed with profound advice from the journey of the unforgettable Myrtle Cribb.Myrtle T. Cribb, a special-needs teacher from Virginia’s Eas...

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Read Pink The Beach Trees

by Karen White

Published: 2013-09-24

Paperback: 432 pages

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From the bestselling author of After the Rain, Sea Change, and The Color of Light... From the time she was twelve, Julie Holt knew what a random tragedy can do to a family. At that tender age, her little sister disappeared--never to be found. It was a loss that slowly eroded th...

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The Christmas Blizzard

by Helen Ketteman

Published: 1996-11

Paperback: 32 pages

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One year the North Pole is too hot for Christmas, so a young boy howls up a snowstorm to get things back on track. He whips up snowflakes as big as dinner plates and winds strong enough to split firewood!

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A Dog Named Christmas

by Greg Kincaid

Published: 2008-11-04

Hardcover: 160 pages

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In this heartwarming novel, author Greg Kincaid tells the tender story of how one very special dog changed the lives of his adoptive family—and an entire town—forever.“Todd, they always want you to adopt a dog. That’s what they do. Besides, we don’t need another animal around her...

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Kindness for Weakness

by Shawn Goodman

Published: 2013-05-14

Hardcover: 272 pages

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“In the spirit of [Walter Dean Myers’s] Monster meeting  The Catcher in the Rye, Goodman’s masterful story will remain with the reader long after the last page, echoing the raw truth that perhaps a real man is one who is both brave and scared.” —Ruta Sepetys, author of Betw...

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Searching for Someday

by Jennifer Probst

Published: 2013-11-26

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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First in a sizzling new series from Jennifer Probst, the USA Today bestselling author adored for her “fresh, fun, and sexy” (Romancing the Book) storytelling!In charming Verily, New York, Kate Seymour has a smashing success with Kinnections, the matchmaking service she owns with her t...

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First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson)

by Darynda Jones

Published: 2011-11-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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Private investigator Charlotte Davidson was born with three things: looks; a healthy respect for the male anatomy; and the rather odd job title of grim reaper. Since the age of five, she has been helping the departed solve the mysteries of their deaths so they can cross. Thus, when three lawyers from...