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Roses of May (The Collector Trilogy)

by Dot Hutchison

Published: 2017-05-23

Paperback: 300 pages

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Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outsi...

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The Birth-Mark

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Published: 2015-08-05

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"The Birth-Mark" is a romantic short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that examines obsession with human perfection. It was first published in the March 1843 edition of The Pioneer. It later appeared in Mosses from an Old Manse, a collection of short stories by Hawthorne published in 1846.

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A History of the World in 6 Glasses

by Tom Standage

Published: 2006-05-16

Paperback: 336 pages

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New York Times BestsellerFrom beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human history. Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influe...

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Snowflake Bentley

by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

Published: 2009-12-28

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"Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied." -- Wilson Bentley (1865-1931)From the time he was a small boy in Vermont, Wilson Bentley saw snowflakes as small miracles. And he determined that one day his camera ...

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George Lucas: A Life

by Brian Jay Jones

Published: 2016-12-06

Hardcover: 560 pages

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The essential biography of the influential and beloved filmmaker George LucasOn May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining independent science-fiction film opened in a mere thirty-two American movie theaters. Conceived, written, and directed by a little-known filmmaker named George ...

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A Lifetime Last Night

by David Homick

Published: 2014-10-20

Paperback: 340 pages

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The past is past; what we do next is all that matters ... Every choice has a consequence, a notion Richard Dunham refuses to acknowledge even as his twenty-five-year marriage to college sweetheart Emily falls apart. Forced into a homeless shelter when Emily throws him out, Richard has an ...

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The Sword of Shannara

by Terry Brooks

Published: 1983-07-12

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Living in peaceful Shady Vale, Shea Ohmsford knew little of the troubles that plagued the rest of the world. Then the giant, forbidding Allanon revaled that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord was plotting to destory the world. The sole weapon against this Power of Darkness was the Sword of Shannara, which...

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One Second After (A John Matherson Novel)

by William R. Forstchen

Published: 2011-04-26

Kindle Edition: 351 pages

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New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the ...

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The White Mouse

by Jack B. Duarte

Published: 2014-02-09

Paperback: 254 pages

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The White Mouse is historical fiction and based on the real life exploits of Australian Nancy Wake during World War II. Wake was responsible for setting up a successful escape network around Marseille, France at the beginning of the war. She fled France and began working for Great Britain's Special Operations...

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Crashing Through: The Extraordinary True Story of the Man Who Dared to See

by Robert Kurson

Published: 2008-08-19

Paperback: 328 pages

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Mike May spent his life crashing through. Blinded at age three, he defied expectations by breaking world records in downhill speed skiing, joining the CIA, and becoming a successful inventor, entrepreneur, and family man. He had never yearned for vision. Then, in 1999, a chance encounter b...