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Leave the Dogs at Home: A Memoir (Break Away Books)

by Claire S. Arbogast

Published: 2015-07-03

Paperback: 238 pages

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Claire and Jim were friends, lovers, and sometimes enemies for 27 years. In order to get health insurance, they finally married, calling their anniversary the "It Means Absolutely Nothing" day. Then Jim was diagnosed with cancer. With ever-decreasing odds of survival, punctuated by arcs of...

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Pierced by the Sun

by Laura Esquivel

Published: 2016-07-01

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Lupita’s hard-knock life has gotten the better of her time and time again. A childhood robbed of innocence set off a chain of events that she still has not managed to control, no matter how hard she tries. Every time she thinks she has a handle on things, unexpected turns make her questi...

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Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War

by Heather Webb, Hazel Gaynor, Beatriz Williams, Jennifer Robson, Jessica Brockmole, Kate Kerrigan, Evangeline Holland, Lauren Willig, Marci Jefferson

Published: 2016-03-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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Top voices in historical fiction deliver an unforgettable collection of short stories set in the aftermath of World War I—featuring bestselling authors such as Hazel Gaynor, Jennifer Robson, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig and edited by Heather Webb.On the eleventh hour of the eleven...

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Merri Dee, Life Lessons on Faith, Forgiveness & Grace

by Merri Dee

Published: 2013-04-24

Paperback: 206 pages

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Merri Dee, legendary TV and radio personality, shares insightful lessons she has learned throughout her life in this powerful memoir. With unflinching honesty, she takes you from her humble upbringing on Chicago's South Side, to her rise to the top as one of the most trusted names in media, philanthropy...

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Twenty Wishes (A Blossom Street Novel)

by Debbie Macomber

Published: 2015-06-30

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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www.DebbieMacomber.comWhat do you want most in the world? What Anne Marie Roche wants is to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, she's childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there's a feeling of emp...

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Sea Station Umbra

by John Paul Cater

Published: 2016-05-20

Paperback: 312 pages

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Somewhere far off the California coast in the Pacific Ocean a thousand meters down lies a Top Secret U.S. Government manned research outpost called Sea Station Umbra. Thought to be a Fukushima radiation monitoring station, its real purpose remains a mystery. A hundred people on Earth know of its...

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Necropolis: London and Its Dead

by Catharine Arnold

Published: 2007-06-04

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From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards death and bereavement -- including more recent trends to displays of collective grief and the cult of mourning,...

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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

by Judith Flanders

Published: 2014-07-15

Paperback: 576 pages

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Wonderful… [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but can be sharp and very funny about the vagaries of melodramatic and sensational pl...

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The Butterfly Garden

by Dot Hutchison

Published: 2016-06-01

Paperback: 286 pages

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An Amazon Charts bestseller.Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden.In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees…and a collection of precious “butterflies”—young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is t...

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The Victorian Book of the Dead

by Chris Woodyard

Published: 2014-09-28

Paperback: 360 pages

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Chris Woodyard, author of the The Ghosts of the Past series, digs through long-buried newspapers and journals, for this fascinating look at the 19th-century obsession with the culture of death. The Victorian Book of the Dead unearths extraordinary tales of Victorian funeral fads and fancies, ghost stories,...