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The Crucible: A Play in Four Acts

by Arthur Miller

Published: 2003-03-25

Paperback: 143 pages

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Based on historical people and real events, Arthur Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism.

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The Brides of Rollrock Island

by Margo Lanagan

Published: 2013-07-23

Paperback: 318 pages

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On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings—and to catch their wives.The witch Misskaella knows the way of drawing a girl from the heart of a seal, of luring the beauty out of the beast. And for a price a man may buy himself a lovely sea-wife. He may have and hold a...

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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

by C. S. Lewis

Published: 2002-11-04

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"We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are." What are we doing when we pray? What is at the heart of this most intimate conversation, the dialogue between a person and God? How does prayer—its form, its regularity, its content, i...

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On Night's Shore: A Novel

by Randall Silvis

Published: 2001-01-19

Hardcover: 352 pages

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It is the summer of 1840--for some in New York City a season of prosperity; for others, another season of desperation. Randall Silvis's On Night's Shore opens with one of the most spellbinding scenes in contemporary writing. A girl tosses her baby from a warehouse window, then follows the ...

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The House on Cold Hill

by Peter James

Published: 2016-10-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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Moving to the countryside is a big undertaking for born townies Ollie and Caro Harcourt and their 12-year-old daughter, Jade. But when they view Cold Hill House a huge, dilapidated, Georgian mansion they are filled with excitement. Despite the financial strain of the move, Ollie has dreamed of living...

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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

by Vladimir Nabokov

Published: 1990-02-19

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Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokov's greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist.  It tells a love story troubled by incest.  But more: it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the n...

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Halo: The Fall of Reach

by Eric Nylund

Published: 2011-06-28

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

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The Definitive Edition to the First and Bestselling Halo Novel, Including Twenty-seven Pages of New Material***Legends are not simply born...they are willed into existence. Humanity has expanded beyond the Sol System. There are hundreds of planets we now call "home."The United Nations Spac...

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The Blue Umbrella

by Ruskin Bond

Published: 2013-03-30

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As soon as Binya saw the blue umbrella, she wanted it so badly that she was willing to give up her lucky leopard's claw pendant in exchange. No one in the village had such a fi ne umbrella, and everywhere Binya went, the umbrella went too. There were many who envied Binya her treasured possession, and...

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Lust & Wonder: A Memoir

by Augusten Burroughs

Published: 2017-03-28

Paperback: 304 pages

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From the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author comes an intimate look at the driving forces in one man’s life.With Augusten's unique and singular observations and his own unabashed way of detailing both the horrific and the humorous, Lust & Wonder is a hilariously frank memoir tha...

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Second Street Station: A Mary Handley Mystery

by Lawrence H. Levy

Published: 2015-06-09

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A historical mystery featuring the witty and wily Mary Handley, the first woman detective in Brooklyn, as she tries to prove herself in a man's world while solving a high profile murder. Mary Handley is a not your typical late-nineteenth century lady. She's fiery, clever, daring—and she...