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Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country (Bryson)

by Bill Bryson

Published: 2001-05-05

Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages

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It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of...

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Home Fire: A Novel

by Kamila Shamsie

Published: 2017-08-15

Hardcover: 288 pages

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“Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I’ve read in a novel this century.” —The New York TimesWINNER OF THE 2018 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love ...

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Just Fly Away

by Andrew McCarthy

Published: 2017-03-28

Hardcover: 272 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller“Ever wish that you could just fly away?” When fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father has a child from a brief affair, an eight-year-old boy who lives in her own suburban New Jersey town, she begins to question everything she thinks she knows...

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White Teeth (Penguin Essentials)

by Zadie Smith

Published: 2001-02-06

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Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a classic international bestseller and an unforgettable portrait of London One of the most talked about fictional debuts ever, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love,...

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Horse Gone Silent

by Shane Ledyard

Published: 2016-01-23

Paperback: 134 pages

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Inspired by a true story, "Horse Gone Silent" delivers adventure, drama and life lessons in a perfectly tidy package that will speak to your heart like no horse story ever has before. Champion show jumping horse Calebo gives a divinely critical message of hope in his inspirational tale of perseverance...

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A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley Mysteries, No. 1)

by Elizabeth George

Published: 2010-12-08

Kindle Edition: 431 pages

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To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders.Now into Keldale...

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The Poacher's Son (Mike Bowditch Mysteries)

by Paul Doiron

Published: 2010-05-11

Hardcover: 324 pages

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Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive---his own father.Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father, Jack, a hard-drinking wom...

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A Great Reckoning

by Louise Penny

Published: 2017-05-03

Paperback: 643 pages

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"An intricate old map is found stuffed into a wall of the bistro in Three Pines, and the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads...

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Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality

by Ajay Chaudry, Taryn Morrissey, Christina Weiland, Hirokazu Yoshikawa

Published: 2017-02-17

Paperback: 240 pages

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Early care and education for many children in the United States is in crisis. The period between birth and kindergarten is a critical time for child development, and socioeconomic disparities that begin early in children’s lives contribute to starkly different long-term outcomes for adul...

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Hiding in a Cave of Trunks: A Prominent Jewish Family's Century in Shanghai and Internment in a WWII POW camp.

by Ester Benjamin Shifren

Published: 2012-11-13

Paperback: 276 pages

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Hiding in a Cave of Trunks: A Prominent Jewish Family's Century in Shanghai and Internment in a WWII POW camp. Against an impressive historical background, China-born Ester Benjamin Shifren relates the saga of her family's century-long existence in Shanghai, the city often referred to as "The Paris of...