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The Burry Man's Day

by Catriona McPherson

Published: 2007-08-30

Paperback: 368 pages

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The second classic whodunnit starring Dandy Gilver. Summer 1923, and as the village of Queensferry prepares for the annual Ferry Fair and the walk of the Burry Man, feelings are running high. With his pagan greenery, his lucky pennies and the nips of whisky he is treated to wherever he goes, the Burry...

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Fever at Dawn

by Péter Gárdos

Published: 2016-04-12

Hardcover: 240 pages

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In this improbably joyous novel about two recovering concentration camp survivors, love is the best medicine. July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence — hi...

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Blackberries, Blackberries

by Crystal E. Wilkinson

Published: 2011-11-03

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An enchanting, haunting collection of stories by Crystal Wilkinson, a self-described Black, country girl and poet from rural Kentucky. The stories explore the joys and pain of the women of "Affrilachia", and will touch the reader profoundly. "I grew up on a farm in Indian Creek, Kentucky during the...

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Water Street

by Crystal Wilkinson

Published: 2011-06-24

Paperback: 192 pages

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On Water Street, every person has at least two stories to tell. One story that the light of day shines on and the other that lives only in the pitch black of night, the kind of story that a person carries beneath their breastbones for safekeeping. Water Street examines the secret lives of neighbors and...

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Holler

by Crystal Wilkinson

Published: 2013-12-03

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"Turn left where Otha’s one-room store used to be and the poplars get thicker, drive past Mt. Zion Baptist Church and across the concrete bridge and on up the holler. You’ll be able to see Green River if you stretch your neck but don’t expect something out of a picture book. It’s b...

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Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America

by Patrick Phillips

Published: 2016-09-20

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farme...

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Courting Greta

by Ramsey Hootman

Published: 2013-06-18

Paperback: 376 pages

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Samuel Cooke knows most women wouldn't give him a second glance even if he were the last man on earth. He's the cripple with crutches, the nerdy computer genius every female past puberty feels compelled to mother. So when he leaves his lucrative career to teach programming to high schooler...

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The Book Thief

Published: 2011-01-01

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Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.

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Hot Toy

by Jennifer Crusie

Published: 2015-10-13

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Previously published in the anthology Santa, Baby, HOT TOY is now available as a standalone e-story for the first time! Mayhem ensues under the mistletoe as a determined shopper grabs the very last hot toy action figure off the shelf, only to find herself plunged into the middle of a rea...

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Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation

by Anne Sebba

Published: 2016-10-18

Hardcover: 480 pages

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“Anne Sebba has the nearly miraculous gift of combining the vivid intimacy of the lives of women during The Occupation with the history of the time. This is a remarkable book.” ?Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare with the Amber EyesNew York Times bestselling...