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In First Person

by Lucy Paz

Published: 2017-09-13

Paperback: 275 pages

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Alice is thrilled with her new baby, but then war looms on the horizonSince her baby was born, Alice was in a permanent state of euphoria. She could spend hours cuddling her, feeding her, touching her. But then black clouds gathered on the horizon as war loomed ahead. People began to hoard...

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The Scarlet Sisters: My Nanna's Story of Secrets and Heartache on the Banks of the River Thames

by Helen Batten

Published: 2015-07-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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A granddaughter's search for her nanna's secret past -- a story of love and loss, poverty and survival.      'Oh my goodness -- another girl Mrs Swain!'Clara's normal iron composure broke and she screamed, 'No! That's not the bloody deal!'And that is how my nanna, Bertha Swain, entere...

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Connect the Stars

by Marisa de los Santos, David Teague

Published: 2016-10-25

Paperback: 368 pages

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From Saving Lucas Biggs authors Marisa de los Santos and David Teague comes a heartwarming middle grade adventure about two misfits discovering the importance of just being themselves.When thirteen-year-olds Aaron and Audrey meet at a wilderness camp in the desert, they think their quirk...

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The Homecoming

by Andrew Pyper

Published: 2019-02-26

Kindle Edition: 369 pages

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Bestselling author Andrew Pyper returns with a riveting psychological thriller about how the people you’ve known your whole life can suddenly become strangers.What if everything you knew about the people you loved was a lie?After the death of their absentee father, Aaron and Bridge Quin...

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The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duchess—In Her Own Words

by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

Published: 2012-04-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful and the heir to a vast family fortune. She was also deeply in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to fulfil her social ambitions and marry an English Duke. Leaving her life in America, she came to England as the Duches...

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Passing Through

by R W K Clark

Published: 2018-01-03

Paperback: 263 pages

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Little do they all know, a horrible murderer has escaped from prison just as the small town is about to get hit with a record blizzard. But the trusting innocence of these small-town people will prove to be their undoing, for they cannot conceive the likes of the stranger they are helping ...

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The Heart of War: Misadventures in the Pentagon

by Kathleen J. McInnis

Published: 2018-09-25

Paperback: 384 pages

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Featured in The NY Times magazine!Featured in “Best of 2018” by Foreign Policy magazine! The Devil Wears Prada meets Catch-22; a novel about a young woman’s journey into the heart of Washington’s war machine.Dr. Heather Reilly has been an anti-war activist since her brother die...

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Immigrant, Montana: A novel

by Amitava Kumar

Published: 2018-07-31

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF THE NEW YORKER’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARCarrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. As he begins to settle into American existence, Kailash comes under the indelible influence of a charismati...

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Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

by Sebastian Faulks

Published: 1997-06-02

Paperback: 496 pages

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Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair ...

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The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was

by Chantal Hebert

Published: 2015-09-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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A #1 national bestseller, winner of the QWF Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, and finalist for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, The Morning After is a sly, insightful and wonderfully original book from one of Canada's ...