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Jerk, California

by Jonathan Friesen

Published: 2008-09-04

Paperback: 368 pages

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Read Jonathan Friesen's posts on the Penguin Blog. This Schneider Family Book Award winner changed the face of Tourette's Syndrome for modern teens. Wrought with tension, romance, and hope, Jerk, California tells the story of Sam, who sets out on a cross-country quest to learn the truth ab...

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Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think

by Dave Gray

Published: 2016-09-14

Paperback: 184 pages

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Why do some people succeed at change while others fail? It's the way they think! Liminal thinking is a way to create change by understanding, shaping, and reframing beliefs. What beliefs are stopping you right now?You have a choice. You can create the world you want to live in, or live in ...

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Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems

by James Baldwin

Published: 2014-04-01

Paperback: 120 pages

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All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition  During his lifetime (1924–1987), James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, which were published to wide-spread praise....

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How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to Our Best Friends

by Mark Derr

Published: 2011-10-27

Hardcover: 288 pages

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That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question of how wolf became dog has remained a mystery, obscured by myth and legend.How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human ...

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The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

by Anne C. Bailey

Published: 2017-10-09

Paperback: 206 pages

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In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself...

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The Unmade World: A Novel

by Steve Yarbrough

Published: 2018-01-16

Paperback: 384 pages

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Set against a backdrop of the current political and cultural upheaval in the US and Eastern Europe, The Unmade World is a thoughtful, scope-y literary novel with a dose of suspense that moves from Poland to California to the Hudson Valley and back to Poland. It covers a decade in the lives...

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Halsey Street

by Naima Coster

Published: 2018-01-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction.A modern-day story of family, loss, and renewal, Halsey Street captures the deeply human need to belong—not only to a place but to one another.Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to ...

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Fairytale: A Novel

by Danielle Steel

Published: 2017-10-10

Hardcover: 288 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A wonderful, beautifully told tale from America’s favorite novelist, Fairytale is a captivating example of the truths that will always withstand even the darkest storms, and a reminder that sometimes fairytales do come true, and good prevails over evil in ...

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Shelter in Place

by Nora Roberts

Published: 2018-05-29

Hardcover: 448 pages

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From Nora Roberts comes the #1 New York Times bestseller Shelter in Place?a powerful tale of heart, heroism...and propulsive suspense. It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sungla...

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The Fisherman: A Novel

by Larry Huntsperger

Published: 2003-02

Paperback: 253 pages

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Few New Testament characters are as fascinating as Simon Barjona, the man called Peter-a reluctant disciple who changed the face of Christianity. For more than twenty-five years, author and pastor Larry Huntsperger has spent hundreds of hours studying New Testament documents in preparation...