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A Scots Quair, (Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite), Glossary of Scots Included

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Published: 2011-08-22

Hardcover: 586 pages

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A Scots Quair is a trilogy by the Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, describing the life of Chris Guthrie, a woman from the north east of Scotland during the early 20th century.It consists of three novels: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, and Grey Granite. The first is widely regarded as an important classic....

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Pot Farm

by Matthew Gavin Frank

Published: 2012-03-01

Paperback: 232 pages

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After eight months in his childhood home helping his mother through her bout with cancer, Matthew Frank and his wife were themselves desperate for comfort. They found sanctuary in the most unlikely place—amid a collection of outcasts and eccentrics on a plot of land miles outside their c...

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande | Summary & Analysis

by aBookaDay

Published: 2016-07-29

Paperback: 44 pages

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This review of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande provides a chapter by chapter detailed summary followed by an analysis and critique of the strengths and weaknesses of this book. Gawande draws on clinical studies, case histories and stories from his own ex...

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The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu: A Detective Kubu Mystery (Detective Kubu Series)

by Michael Stanley

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 496 pages

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“The African Columbo….Like the first book to feature Kubu, A Carrion Death, this is a smart, satisfyingly complex mystery. [Grade] A.”—Entertainment Weekly< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> The second book in the Inspector Kubu series—penned by a pair of Crime Writers’ Association Award-winning South African a...

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Fractured

by Catherine McKenzie

Published: 2016-10-04

Paperback: 362 pages

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Welcome, neighbor!Julie Prentice and her family move across the country to the idyllic Mount Adams district of Cincinnati, hoping to evade the stalker who’s been terrorizing them ever since the publication of her bestselling novel, The Murder Game. Since Julie doesn’t know anyone in he...

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Baby Bailino (Baby Grand)

by Dina Santorelli

Published: 2016-09-01

Paperback: 330 pages

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It’s been two years since Jamie Carter escaped captivity and saved Charlotte Grand, the infant daughter of New York Governor Phillip Grand, becoming a national hero for foiling the kidnapping plot that incarcerated reputed mobster/entrepreneur Don Bailino—the man who abducted and raped her. As Governor...

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The Woman in the Photo: A Novel

by Mary Hogan

Published: 2016-06-14

Paperback: 432 pages

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In this compulsively-readable historical novel, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Two Sisters, comes the story of two young women—one in America’s Gilded Age, one in scrappy modern-day California—whose lives are linked by a single tragic afternoon in history.1888: Elizabeth...

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A Cheating Man's Heart

by Derrick Jaxn

Published: 2013-11-14

Paperback: 234 pages

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With his witty, humorous, and heartfelt writing style that took the social media world virally by storm, Derrick Jaxn delivers another lesson in love wrapped in the emotionally transparent perspective of a troubled man. Shawn Fletcher, a former college football phenom turned successful entrepreneur,...

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Gracefully Grayson

by Ami Polonsky

Published: 2016-06-07

Paperback: 256 pages

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"Tenderly and courageously told, Gracefully Grayson is a small miracle of a book. Its story is so compelling I found myself holding my breath as I read it and so intimate I felt as if what was happening to Grayson was happening to me. Thank you, Ami Polonsky, for creating this memorable ch...

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Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

by Chris Crowley, Henry S. Lodge M.D.

Published: 2007-10-10

Paperback: 380 pages

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Co-written by one of the country's most prominent internists, Dr. Henry "Harry" Lodge, and his star patient, the 73-year-old Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women is a book of hope, a guide to aging without fear or anxiety. This is a book of hope, a guide to aging without fear or anx...