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Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets: A Real-Life Scottish Fairy Tale

by Jessica A. Fox

Published: 2013-08-27

Paperback: 384 pages

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In this inspiring, delightful memoir, a young woman decides to escape the daily grind and turn her “what if” fantasy into a reality, only to find work—and a man—she loves in one fell swoop, all in a secondhand bookstore in a quaint Scottish town.Jessica Fox was living in Hollywood,...

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Far from the Tree

by Robin Benway

Published: 2017-10-03

Hardcover: 384 pages

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National Book Award Winner, PEN America Award Winner, and New York Times Bestseller!Perfect for fans of This Is Us, Robin Benway’s beautiful interweaving story of three very different teenagers connected by blood explores the meaning of family in all its forms—how to find it, how to ke...

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The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis

by David E. Fishman

Published: 2017-10-03

Hardcover: 312 pages

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The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts—first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets—by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism...

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The Atomic City Girls: A Novel

by Janet Beard

Published: 2018-02-06

Paperback: 384 pages

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“Focuses on the little-known realities behind the Manhattan Project […] Readers who enjoyed Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls will appreciate this glimpse into the beliefs and attitudes that shaped America during World War II.”— Library JournalAn Internationally bestselling novelI...

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World Without End: A Novel (Kingsbridge)

by Ken Follett

Published: 2008-10-07

Paperback: 1014 pages

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In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed—“it will hold you, fascinate you, surro...

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Fragments of the Lost

by Megan Miranda

Published: 2017-11-14

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and The Perfect Stranger comes a suspenseful psychological mystery about one girl's search to uncover the truth behind her ex-boyfriend's death. Perfect for fans of We Were Liars and 13 Reasons Why.Jessa Whitworth knew she...

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Sierra Club Engagement Calendar 2018

by Sierra Club

Published: 2017-08-01

Calendar: 0 pages

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The most popular nature calendar ever published, this Sierra Club classic features wire-o binding, a week-by-week format, and 56 full-color images by America's leading nature photographers.

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Fifty Years of 60 Minutes: The Inside Story of Television’s Most Influential News Broadcast

by Jeff Fager

Published: 2017-10-24

Hardcover: 416 pages

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The ultimate inside story of 60 Minutes, the program that has tracked and shaped the biggest moments in post-war American history.From its almost accidental birth in 1968, 60 Minutes has set the standard for broadcast journalism, joining us in our living rooms each Sunday night to surprise...

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Women of Will: The Remarkable Evolution of Shakespeare's Female Characters

by Tina Packer

Published: 2016-03-08

Paperback: 352 pages

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Women of Will is a fierce and funny exploration of Shakespeare’s understanding of the feminine. Tina Packer, one of our foremost Shakespeare experts, shows that Shakespeare began, in his early comedies, by writing women as shrews to be tamed or as sweet little things with no independence...

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Hugs

by Lawrence Williams

Published: 2017-08-15

Paperback: 272 pages

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It is 1989 when Steve and Gina Wilson learn that their precious little boy, Taylor, has a little known behaviorial disorder. Desperate for answers about the perplexing disorder called autism, Steve sets out on a determined quest to find a way to communicate with Taylor.While battling depre...