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The Heavenly Table: A Novel

by Donald Ray Pollock

Published: 2016-07-12

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors. It is 1917, in that sliver of border l...

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The Shack

by William P. Young, William P

Published: 2007

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently...

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The Mistletoe Murder: And Other Stories

by P. D. James

Published: 2016-10-25

Hardcover: 176 pages

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Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time--swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment." The newly appointed Sgt. Dalgliesh ...

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A Deadly Affection (Dr. Genevieve Summerford Mystery)

by Cuyler Overholt

Published: 2016-09-06

Paperback: 448 pages

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A ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year Award and the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Best Mystery"Do no harm" is easier said than done...Dr. Genevieve Summerford prides herself on her ability as a psychiatrist to understand the inner workings of the human mind. But when one of her patie...

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Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit

by Parker J. Palmer

Published: 2014-08-25

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This 2014 PAPERBACK EDITION includes TWO NEW FEATURES: (1) A chapter-length INTRODUCTION in which Palmer explores his political experience since the book first came out in 2011, including a new way to understand "the great divide" in our political life. (2) A detailed DISCUSSION GUID...

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Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America

by Althea McDowell Altemus

Published: 2016-11-18

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Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers in Chicago, Miami, and New York duri...

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Gathering the Desert

by Gary Paul Nabhan

Published: 1986-08-01

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To the untrained eye, a desert is a wasteland that defies civilization; yet the desert has been home to native cultures for centuries and offers sustenance in its surprisingly wide range of plant life. Gary Paul Nabhan has combed the desert in search of plants forgotten by all but a handfu...

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The Great Fire

by Jim Murphy

Published: 2010-08-18

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The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. The damage was so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again.By weaving personal accounts of actual su...

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Twilight Sleep

by Edith Wharton

Published: 1997-12-09

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Out of print for several decades, here is Edith Wharton's superb satirical novel of the Jazz Age, a critically praised best-seller when it was first published in 1927. Sex, drugs, work, money, infatuation with the occult and spiritual healing -- these are the remarkably modern themes that ...

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Talkeetna Good Time

by Dennis Brown

Published: 2008-06-19

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Talkeetna is Northern Exposure. Using my life journals, in 1981 I helped cast the characters incorporated into the pilot of Northern Exposure. Within the covers of Talkeetna Good Time, you will trespass on Arctic treasures and be introduced to "bigger than life" Alaskans.