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Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab

by Shani Mootoo

Published: 2017-05-02

Paperback: 310 pages

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"Readers who enjoy rich details of place will find Mootoo’s writing about her settings to be luxuriant; we are especially treated to abundant descriptions of Trinidad...[A] thoughtful exploration of place and identity."--Kirkus Reviews"Mootoo’s character-driven novel is rich in setting...

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Who By Fire

by Fred Stenson

Published: 2015-08-11

Paperback: 368 pages

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"On the page Stenson is like Frank Sinatra in a stetson--smooth and pitch perfect. And if details give literature its staying power, Stenson is writing for the ages." --Caroline Adderson, The Globe and Mail      The heart of this moving story belongs to Tom Ryder--a man whose expecta...

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No Great Mischief

by Alistair MacLeod

Published: 2006-10-01

Paperback: 262 pages

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In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum McDonald set sail from the Scottish highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey, Calum settles his family in "the land of the trees" until they become a separate Nova Scotian clan, with its own identity and history.

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Outcry Witness

by Thomas Zigal

Published: 2019-02-22

Hardcover: 320 pages

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It’s the 1980s. A priest is found murdered in his New Orleans rectory. When compromising videotapes are discovered in his bedroom, the Bishop and his staff withhold this damaging evidence from the police. The district attorney, a faithful Catholic and good friend of the Bishop, helps bur...

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* * * * * Informative,
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On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle

by Hampton Sides

Published: 2018-10-02

Hardcover: 416 pages

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"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinemati...

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I Am John Galt: Today's Heroic Innovators Building the World and the Villainous Parasites Destroying It

by Donald Luskin, Andrew Greta

Published: 2011-05-24

Hardcover: 307 pages

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Inspired by Ayn Rand's characters in Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, penetrating profiles of both the innovators who move our world forward and those who seek to destroy the achievement of othersJohn Galt, the fictional character from Ayn Rand's bestselling novel, Atlas Shrugged, has ...

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When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

by Joshua D Mezrich

Published: 2019-01-15

Hardcover: 384 pages

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"With When Death Becomes Life, Joshua Mezrich has performed the perfect core biopsy of transplantation—a clear and compelling account of the grueling daily work, the spell-binding history and the unsettling ethical issues that haunt this miraculous lifesaving treatment. Mezrich's compass...

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Pure Land: A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures and the Search for Heaven on Earth

by Annette McGivney

Published: 2017-10-02

Paperback: 354 pages

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Winner of the 2018 National Outdoor Book Award for Literature Pure Land is the story of the most brutal murder in the history of the Grand Canyon and how McGivney's quest to investigate the victim's life and death wound up guiding the author through her own life-threatening crisis. On this...

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Party Girl (The Girls)

by Rachel Hollis

Published: 2014-12-09

Paperback: 312 pages

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From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl, Wash Your Face comes the story of a small-town girl finding her way in Hollywood one misstep at a time.Landon Brinkley’s dreams are all coming true. She’s landed an internship with a fabulous event planner for the Hollywood elite,...

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Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service (Disney Institute Book, A)

by The Disney Institute, Theodore Kinni

Published: 2011-11-08

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Exceeding expectations rather than simply satisfying them is the cornerstone of the Disney approach to customer service. Now, in honor of the tenth anniversary of the original Be Our Guest, Disney Institute, which specializes in helping professionals see new possibilities through concepts ...