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Islands

by Anne Rivers Siddons

Published: 2009-10-13

Kindle Edition: 496 pages

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Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family. That changes when she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant surgeon fifteen years older tha...

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Dive From Clausen's Pier

by Ann Packer

Published: 2002-05-28

Hardcover: 384 pages

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"The Dive from Clausen's Pier is one of those small miracles that reinforce our faith in fiction. It does what the best novels so often do, making the largest things visible by its perfect rendering of life on the smaller scale. It is witty, tragic and touching, and beguiling from the first page." --Scott...

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Sammy's Hill: A Novel

by Kristin Gore

Published: 2004-09-01

Hardcover: 400 pages

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"The fact that I had managed to become a health-care analyst for a U.S. Senator at the age of twenty-six still surprised me, and I lived in fear that someone would realize how ridiculous it was to have given me this authority and fire me on the spot."Idealistic, dedicated to her job, and a...

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Golden State

by Ben Winters

Published: 2019-01-22

Hardcover: 336 pages

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From award-winning, New York Times bestselling novelist Ben H. Winters comes a mind-bending novel set in a world governed by absolute truth, where lies are as dangerous as murder.In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year vete...

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How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight

by Julian Guthrie

Published: 2017-09-05

Paperback: 448 pages

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A New York Times bestseller! The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflightWinner of the 2016 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical LiteratureA Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardAlone in a Spartan black cockpit, test pilot Mike Melvill r...

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Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic Greenwood District

by Hannibal B. Johnson

Published: 2007-08-01

Paperback: 316 pages

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Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as "The Black Wall Street of America," the Greenwood District attracted pioneers from all over America who sought new opportunities and fresh...

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Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports

by Kathrine Switzer

Published: 2017-04-04

Paperback: 448 pages

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A new edition of a sports icon's memoir, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kathrine Switzer's historic running of the Boston Marathon as the first woman to run.In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially run what was then the all-male Boston Marathon, infuriating one ...

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This Is How It Begins: A Novel

by Joan Dempsey

Published: 2017-10-03

Paperback: 399 pages

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One of "5 more over 50" writers to watch--Poets & Writers magazine 2018 BRONZE MEDAL WINNER INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS (IPPY)2018 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST2018 MAY SARTON WOMEN'S BOOK AWARD FINALIST 2017 FOREWORD REVIEW INDIES BOOK AWARD FINALIST2017 POETS & WRITERS MAUREEN EG...

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Managing Transitions, 25th anniversary edition: Making the Most of Change

by William Bridges, Susan Bridges

Published: 2017-01-10

Paperback: 208 pages

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The business world is constantly transforming. When restructures, mergers, bankruptcies, and layoffs hit the workplace, employees and managers naturally find the resulting situational shifts to be challenging. But the psychological transitions that accompany them are even more stressful. O...

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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library

by Edward Wilson-Lee

Published: 2019-03-12

Hardcover: 416 pages

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In the tradition of Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve and Dava Sobel’s Galileo’s Daughter, a vividly rendered account of the forgotten quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world—“a perfectly pitched poetic drama” (Financial Times) and an ama...