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Come, Thou Tortoise

by Jessica Grant

Published: 2010-03-09

Paperback: 432 pages

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A delightfully offbeat story that features an opinionated tortoise and an IQ-challenged narrator who find themselves in the middle of a life-changing mystery.Audrey (a.k.a. Oddly) Flowers is living quietly in Oregon with Winnifred, her tortoise, when she finds out her dear father has been ...

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Tyler's Cape

by Darren Greer

Published: 2001-03

Paperback: 262 pages

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When Luke Conrad's aging mother breaks her hip he returns to the Nova Scotian fishing village of Tyler's Cape to take care of her. There, as he begins to remember the childhood he has worked so hard to forget, Luke unearths a secret in his mother's past - a secret that could be the key to understanding...

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In the Light of What We See

by Sarah Painter

Published: 2016-04-01

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Brighton, 1938: Grace Kemp is pushed away by the family she has shamed. Rejected and afraid, she begins a new life as a nurse. But danger stalks the hospital too, and she’ll need to be on her guard to avoid falling into familiar traps. And then there are the things she sees…Strange por...

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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Vintage International)

by Alain De Botton

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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We spend most of our waking lives at work—in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace...

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Christmas with Anne (L.M. Montgomery Books)

by L.M. Montgomery

Published: 1996-10-02

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Share Anne's delight at receiving the dress of her dreams, the joy of a young woman reunited with her long-lost brother on Christmas Eve, and the surprise of a trio of sisters who inadvertently end a family feud by arriving at the wrong uncle's house for Christmas dinner.L.M. Montgomery re...

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The Silver Baron's Wife

by Donna Baier Stein

Published: 2016-09-15

Paperback: 224 pages

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An artistic, sympathetic imagining of the life of a 19th-century woman who made headlines for all the wrong reasons. - Kirkus Reviews In this eloquent novel, Stein portrays the independent, eccentric, and resilient woman known as Baby Doe, a legendary figure from Colorado's silver boom....

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The Gifts of the Child Christ and Other Stories and Fairy Tales

by George MacDonald

Published: 1996-04

Paperback: 558 pages

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She Stoops to Conquer

by Oliver Goldsmith

Published: 2012-04-29

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Wealthy countryman Mr. Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a wealthy Londoner, hoping the pair will marry. Unfortunately Marlow is nervous around upper-class women, yet the complete opposite around lower-class females. On his first acquaintance with Kate, the...

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The Magic Garden

by Gene Stratton-Porter

Published: 2012-08-01

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A wealthy young girl spends her youth preparing for the return of a young man she has loved since childhood.

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Die for Love: A Jacqueline Kirby Novel of Suspense (Jacqueline Kirby Series)

by Elizabeth Peters

Published: 2011-08-30

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement. But all is not love and kisses at this august gathering of starry-eyed eccentrics and sentimental scribes. As far as ...