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The Promise

by Chaim Potok

Published: 2005-11-08

Paperback: 368 pages

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Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he’s in love, and he’s studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die.One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven ta...

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Some Kind of Happiness

by Claire Legrand

Published: 2016-05-17

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Reality and fantasy collide in this heartfelt and mysterious novel for fans of Counting by 7s and Bridge to Terabithia, about a girl who must save a magical make-believe world in order to save herself.Things Finley Hart doesn’t want to talk about: -Her parents, who are having problems. (...

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Grayling's Song

by Karen Cushman

Published: 2016-06-07

Hardcover: 224 pages

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“Like all Karen Cushman's gorgeous novels, Grayling’s Song delves into the past to let us know what we must ask of our future.” —Lena Dunham   It’s time for Grayling to be a hero. Her mother, a “wise woman”—a sort of witch—has been turned into a tree by evil forces. T...

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Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

by Larry Millett

Published: 2011-03-29

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The year is 1896, and St. Paul’s magnificent Winter Carnival is under way when Holmes and Watson are summoned by the city’s most powerful man, railroad magnate James J. Hill. A wealthy young man disappears on the eve of his wedding—and his fiancée suspiciously discards her wedding d...

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Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth

by Jane Alexander

Published: 2016-09-27

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A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists....

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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

by Lisa See

Published: 2017-03-21

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple.Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it...

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Maiden Flight: A Novel

by Harry Haskell

Published: 2016-10-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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Maiden Flight is the true-life story of the Wright sister who in 1926 left her world-famous and intensely possessive older brother to marry newspaper editor Harry Haskell, the man she loved, and suffered the unhappy consequences. An international celebrity in her own right, Katharine embo...

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The Air He Breathes (Elements)

by Brittainy C Cherry

Published: 2015-10-30

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I was warned about Tristan Cole. “Stay away from him,” people said. “He’s cruel.” “He’s cold.” “He’s damaged.” It’s easy to judge a man because of his past. To look at Tristan and see a monster. But I couldn’t do that. I had to accept the wreckage that lived inside...

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Turbulent Souls

by Stephen J. Dubner

Published: 1999-10-01

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Turbulent Souls is a luminous memoir, crafted with the eye of a journalist and the art of a novelist by New York Times Magazine writer and editor Stephen J. Dubner. By turns comic and heartbreaking, it tells the story of a family torn apart by religion, sustained by faith, and reunited by ...

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Something To Make A Bird Sing: A motivational story of courage resilience and determination to soar for women

by Ronika S Ward

Published: 2014-08-08

Paperback: 306 pages

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In this open and honest coming of age story Ronika "Bird" Ward describes how courage, resilience and determination helped her overcome her struggles. After being abandoned by her drug addicted mother and her alcoholic father and becoming a ward of the state she quickly turned to a life of alcoholism,...