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If the Creek Don't Rise: A Novel

by Leah Weiss

Published: 2017-08-22

Paperback: 320 pages

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"[A] striking debut..." ? BUSTLE  "...masterful use of language....Weiss' novel is a great suggestion for fans of the Big Stone Gap books, by Adriana Trigiani, and Mitford series, by Jan Karon."?Booklist, STARRED ReviewHe's gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and Loretta LynnSadie Blue ...

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The Singing Wilderness (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

by Sigurd F. Olson

Published: 1997-08-13

Paperback: 256 pages

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The Singing Wilderness is Sigurd Olson's first and best-selling book, with over 70,000 copies sold in hardcover since its release in 1956. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume established Olson as a major writer renowned for the beauty of his prose and the clarity of ...

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Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering the Countercultural Mister Rogers

by Michael Long

Published: 2015-03-13

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Fred Rogers was one of the most radical pacifists of contemporary history. We do not usually think of him as radical, partly because he wore colorful, soft sweaters made by his mother. Nor do we usually imagine him as a pacifist; that adjective seems way too political to describe the host ...

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Fat Chance

by Nick Spalding

Published: 2014-10-07

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Meet Zoe and Greg Milton, a married couple who have let themselves go a bit. Zoe was a stunner in her college days, but the intervening decades have added five stone, and removed most of her self-esteem. Greg's rugby-playing days are well and truly behind him, thanks to countless pints of ...

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Nature Poem

by Tommy Pico

Published: 2017-05-09

Paperback: 128 pages

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Most Anticipated Book of 2017 at Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, and more. A book-length poem about how an American Indian writer can’t bring himself to write about nature, but is forced to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, manifest destiny, and his own identity as an young, queer, ur...

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My Cat Yugoslavia: A Novel

by Pajtim Statovci

Published: 2017-04-18

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A New York Times Book Review Staff Pick"A marvel, a remarkable achievement, and a world apart from anything you are likely to read this year." —Téa Obreht, The New York Times Book ReviewIn 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, and what was meant...

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Mirror Shoulder Signal

by Dorthe Nors

Published: 2017-02-23

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A smart, witty novel of driving lessons and vertigo, short-listed for the Man Booker International PrizeSonja is ready to get on with her life. She’s over forty now, and the Swedish crime novels she translates are losing their fascination. She sees a masseuse, tries to reconnect with her...

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Deadly Sanctuary (Kendall O'Dell Mystery series)

by Sylvia Nobel

Published: 1998-04-28

Paperback: 360 pages

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The first title in Sylvia Nobel's popular mystery series that features spirited, flame-haired reporter Kendall O'Dell. The author's trademark style is to produce exciting, well-written, edge-of-your-seat, adventures with "knock your socks off" surprise endings. Her judicious use of languag...

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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

by Gay Salisbury, Laney Salisbury

Published: 2005-02-17

Paperback: 320 pages

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"A stirring tale of survival, thanks to man's best friend." ?Seattle TimesWhen a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port w...

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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet

by Michael Bloomberg, Carl Pope

Published: 2017-04-18

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and mor...