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The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival

by Ken Wheaton

Published: 2010-01-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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Welcome to Grand Prairie, Louisiana-land of confounding accents, hard-drinking senior citizens, and charming sinners-brought to hilarious life in a bracing, heartfelt debut novel simmering with Cajun spice . . . Father Steve Sibille has come home to the bayou to take charge of St. Pete's church. Among...

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Pieces of Happiness

by Anne Ostby

Published: 2017-08-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A novel of five lifelong friends who, in their sixties, decide to live together on a cocoa farm in Fiji, where they not only start a chocolate business but strengthen their friendships and rediscover themselves. "I've planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the las...

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The Children of Men

by P. D. James

Published: 2006-05-16

Paperback: 256 pages

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The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is app...

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Trotsky in New York, 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution

by Kenneth D. Ackerman

Published: 2017-08-15

Paperback: 400 pages

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Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co-leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the Twentieth Century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky wa...

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Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It

by Gina Kolata

Published: 2001-01-09

Paperback: 352 pages

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A national bestseller, the fast-paced and gripping account of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 from acclaimed science journalist Gina Kolata, now featuring a new epilogue about avian flu.When we think of plagues, we think of AIDS, Ebola, anthrax spores, and, of course, the Black Death. But i...

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Goodbye Days

by Jeff Zentner

Published: 2017-03-07

Hardcover: 416 pages

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“Gorgeous, heartbreaking, and ultimately life-affirming.” —Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything.Perfect for fans of Turtles All the Way Down,Thirteen Reasons Why, and Zentner's own The Serpent King, one of the most highly acclaimed YA nov...

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Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book

by Jomny Sun

Published: 2017-06-27

Hardcover: 304 pages

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everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too is the illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, only to meet all sorts of creatures with all sorts of perspectives on life, love, and happiness, all while learning to feel a little better about being an alien—based on the ...

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Showboat: Tie In Edition

by Edna Ferber

Published: 1994-10-01

Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages

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1926. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber's famous novel, Show Boat, tells parallel love stories of two doomed marriages that are set on a Mississippi show boat. Magnolia, the sheltered daughter of the Cotton Blossom's owner, falls in love and runs off to Chicago with a dashing riverboat gambler....

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A $500 House in Detroit: Rebuilding an Abandoned Home and an American City

by Drew Philp

Published: 2017-04-11

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it—and his new neighborhood—to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen…A standout” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Dre...

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The Days When Birds Come Back

by Deborah Reed

Published: 2018-01-09

Hardcover: 272 pages

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An emotionally searing novel of second chances from an author whose “gorgeous and wise prose” (Cheryl Strayed) will stay with you long after you’re done June is in transition, reeling from her divorce, trying to stay sober, and faced with a completely stalled career. She returns to ...