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Escape From Home (Beyond the Western Sea)

by Avi

Published: 2012-03-01

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Avi's suspense-filled, seafaring adventure gets a bold new package!It's 1851. Fifteen-year-old Maura O'Connell and her twelve-year-old brother Patrick are about to set sail on an epic voyage to America to flee the brutal poverty of Ireland and to be reunited with their father.Eleven-year-o...

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What Child Is This

by Caroline B. Cooney

Published: 2000-09

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Sixteen-year-old Matt knows not to expect anything of life, or people or Christmas. But his foster sister, Katie, hasn't yet learnt not to hope. When all the foster kids make their Christmas wishes, Katie asks for a family. Matt reckons no-one gets a family for Christmas - do they?

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The Child Buyer

by John Hersey

Published: 1960-09-12

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This is a story of an investigation into the activities of Mr. Wissey Jones, a stranger who comes to the town of Pequot on urgent defense business. His business is to buy for his corporation children of a certain sort, in this case a ten-year-old named Barry Rudd, a budding genius of pote...

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Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society: A Novel

by Amy Hill Hearth

Published: 2012-10-02

Paperback: 272 pages

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A brilliant debut novel from a New York Times bestselling author about a transplanted wife from Boston who arrives in Florida in the 1960s, starts a literary salon, and shakes up the status quo.Eighty-year-old Dora, the narrator of a story that began a half century earlier, is bonding with...

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Playing with the Enemy: A Baseball Prodigy, World War II, and the Long Journey Home

by Gary W. Moore

Published: 2008-04-01

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Part Tuesdays with Morrie, part Field of Dreams?a true American story of World War II and redemption Driven by word of mouth and the author?s heroic efforts to tell the world his father?s story, Playing with the Enemy was a surprise hardcover hit for its independent publisher. Gary Moore?s...

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Sing for Me: A Novel

by Karen Halvorsen Schreck

Published: 2014-04-01

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When a good church girl starts singing in a jazz club and falls for the music—as well as a handsome, African-American man—she struggles to reconcile her childhood faith with her newfound passions.When a good church girl starts singing in a jazz club and falls for the music—as well as...

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The Starved Rock Murders

by Steve Stout

Published: 1982-10

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Operation Christmas Child: A Story of Simple Gifts

by Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney

Published: 2013-10-01

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It was a simple idea that became the worldwide ministry of Operation Christmas Child—to minister to children in war-torn and famine-stricken countries.  In just two decades it has inspired everyday people to provide more than 100 million gift-filled shoeboxes to needy children in 130 co...

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Lighthouse: First Novel in the St. Simons Trilogy

by Eugenia Price

Published: 2012-05-29

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First Novel in the St. Simons TrilogyA compelling, vibrant saga of conflict, love, and a young man's search to fulfill his dreams.In this enthralling first novel of the St. Simons Trilogy, Eugenia Price shares the compelling story of James Gould, a young man with a passionate dream. Raised...

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American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World

by David Baron

Published: 2017-06-06

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, American Eclipse ultimately depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius.On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon’s shadow descended on...