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My Jim: A Novel

by Nancy Rawles

Published: 2006-01-24

Paperback: 190 pages

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To help her granddaughter accept the risks of loving, Sadie Watson mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim. Sadie’s Jim was an ambitious young slave and seer who, when faced with the prospect of being sold, escaped down the Mississippi with a white boy nam...

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The Kindness of Strangers: A Skip Langdon Novel

by Julie Smith

Published: 1996-07-09

Hardcover: 338 pages

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Julie Smith's New Orleans is not a city, it's a world--exotic, sweetly perverse, dangerously seductive. Nowhere else does politics make stranger bedfellows; and the approaching mayoral election is stranger than most, pitting the usual thugs and vipers against a seeming breath of fresh air-...

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Memento Mori

by Muriel Spark

Published: 2000-06

Paperback: 224 pages

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Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark. In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone informs each, "Remember you must die."...

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Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure

by Stuart Stevens

Published: 1994-01-13

Paperback: 236 pages

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Introducing the life cycles of the main animal groups, this series provides an overview of key physical characteristics and covers the life cycle from birth, or hatching, to death, looking at growing up, feeding, mating, keeping safe, threats and survival. Each title includes simple charts and graphs...

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Ever After (Lost Love Series)

by Karen Kingsbury

Published: 2013-10-30

Paperback: 368 pages

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Two couples torn apart?one by war between countries, one by war within. In this moving sequel to Even Now, Emily Anderson, now twenty, is attending college on a soccer scholarship when she meets the man who changes everything for her: Army reservist Justin Baker. Their tender relationship,...

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Ever After

by Graham Swift

Published: 1993-03-02

Paperback: 275 pages

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Dazzling in its structure and shattering in its emotional force, Graham Swift's Ever After spans two centuries and settings from the adulterous bedrooms of postwar Paris to the contemporary entanglements in the groves of academe. It is the story of Bill Unwin, a man haunted by the death of...

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Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work

by Deborah Tannen

Published: 2001-09-18

Paperback: 368 pages

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Your project went off without a hitch--but somebody else got the credit...You averted a crisis brilliantly--but no one noticed...You came to the meeting with a sensational idea--but it was ignored until someone else said the same thing...HOW CAN YOU GET CREDIT & GET AHEAD?In her extraordin...

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Celestine: Voices from a French Village

by Gillian Tindall

Published: 1995-04-24

Hardcover: 240 pages

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One summer evening in central France, Gillian Tindall went on an errand into a deserted house. There she discovered a cache of letters in various hands, all written to the same woman. In piecing together the life of this extraordinary person, the author rediscovered a vanished village world and a remarkable...

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The Chin Kiss King: A Novel

by Ana Veciana-Suarez

Published: 2015-11-10

Paperback: 312 pages

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In this lyrical novel set in a Cuban-American neighborhood in Miami, three generations of women face an unexpected—and ultimately life-changing—trial. When Maribel, an overly cautious and orderly market analyst, gives birth to a severely handicapped baby, her mother, Adela, and her gra...

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Jefferson's Pillow

by Roger Wilkins

Published: 2008-06-05

Library Binding: 0 pages

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