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All the Men in the Sea: The Untold Story of One of the Greatest Rescues in History

by Michael Krieger

Published: 2002-10-08

Hardcover: 240 pages

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One of the most exciting sea rescues of the twentieth century occurred during a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in 1995. Ever since, lawsuits have made it almost impossible to find out the complete story of what happened. Now Michael Krieger tells the heroic truth of this astonishing drama. All the Men...

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Red Mountain Rising: A Novel (Red Mountain Chronicles)

by Boo Walker

Published: 2018-12-01

Paperback: 376 pages

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What do you do when it all comes crashing down?Boo Walker has returned to wine country for the sequel to his powerful, best-selling novel, Red Mountain. Join four wildly colorful characters as they search for life, love, and meaning in a tiny wine-growing region in the desert of eastern Wa...

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The Lost Words

by Robert Macfarlane

Published: 2018-10-02

Hardcover: 128 pages

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In 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary ? widely used in schools around the world ? was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had been dropped. Apparently they were no longer being used enough by children to merit t...

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DEAD & BURIED a gripping crime thriller full of twists

by HELEN H. DURRANT

Published: 2016-07-03

Kindle Edition: 227 pages

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A GRIPPING CRIME MYSTERY FULL OF TWISTS AND TURNS40 years ago something terrible happened in Annie's new house . . .Annie Naden and her husband buy a remote country cottage at auction. It’s the home of their own that they always wanted, but as they begin renovations, Annie discovers a sa...

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The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

by Donna Tartt

Published: 2015-04-07

Paperback: 771 pages

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A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this 'extraordinary' and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that 'connects with the heart as well as the mind' (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review).Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker,...

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The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

by Donna Tartt

Published: 2015-04-07

Paperback: 771 pages

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A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this 'extraordinary' and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that 'connects with the heart as well as the mind' (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review).Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker,...

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Lifeboat No. 8: An Untold Tale of Love, Loss, and Surviving the Titanic

by Elizabeth Kaye

Published: 2018-03-13

Kindle Edition: 66 pages

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As the Titanic was sinking, who would make it off alive? The two cousins who had been so eager to see their first iceberg? The maid who desperately tried to escape with the baby in her care? The young newlyweds who'd booked passage despite warnings?Now, more than one hundred years after th...

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Bangkok Wakes to Rain: A Novel

by Pitchaya Sudbanthad

Published: 2019-02-19

Hardcover: 368 pages

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"Recreates the experience of living in Thailand's aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles."--Ron Charles, Washington Post"Important, ambitious, and accomplished." --Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling author of Exit WestA missionary doctor p...

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Taking Hawaii: How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With a Bluff

by Stephen Dando-Collins

Published: 2014-08-26

Paperback: 358 pages

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On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of rebel Honolulu b...

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A Carrion Death: Introducing Detective Kubu (Detective Kubu Series Book 1)

by Michael Stanley

Published: 2009-10-13

Kindle Edition: 512 pages

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Smashed skull, snapped ribs, and a cloying smell of carrion. Leave the body for the hyenas to devour—no body, no case.But Kalahari game rangers stumble on the human corpse mid-meal. The murder wasn't perfect after all. Enter Detective David "Kubu" Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investiga...