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The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories (Signet Classics)

by Sarah Orne Jewett

Published: 2009-11-03

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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A rich collection of classic American literature potraying the beauty of a 19th-century New England town.A female writer comes one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, where she follows the lonely inhabitants of once-prosperous coastal communities. Here, lives are molded by the...

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Unbowed: A Memoir

by Wangari Muta Maathai

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 326 pages

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In "Unbowed," Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people's environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread...

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QB: My Life Behind the Spiral

by Steve Young, Jeff Benedict

Published: 2017-10-10

Paperback: 416 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This book is gold.”—Peter King “Intense.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Steve Young is a hero of mine, and his story is a source of inspiration for me. His perseverance, intelligence, and, most of all, grace under pressure NFL-style, make this book a fasci...

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Madonna of the Seven Hills: A Novel of the Borgias

by Jean Plaidy

Published: 2011-01-18

Kindle Edition: 322 pages

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The most beautiful woman in Rome, Lucrezia Borgia, was born into a family—and a destiny—she could not hope to escape . . .Fifteenth-century Rome: The Borgia family is on the rise. Lucrezia’s father, Pope Alexander VI, places his illegitimate daughter and her only brothers, Cesare, Gi...

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Down the River unto the Sea

by Walter Mosley

Published: 2018-02-20

Kindle Edition: 337 pages

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"Mosley writes with great power here about themes that have permeated his work: institutional racism, political corruption, and the ways that both of these issues affect not only society at large but also the inner lives of individual men and women." --Booklist (starred review)NATIONAL BES...

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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet

by Will Hunt

Published: 2019-01-29

Kindle Edition: 275 pages

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A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet When Will Hunt was sixteen years ol...

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Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z's New Path to Success

by Shalini Shankar

Published: 2019-04-30

Hardcover: 336 pages

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An anthropologist uses spelling bees as a lens to examine the unique and diverse traits of Generation Z--and why they are destined for successAt first glance, Generation Z (youth born after 1997) seems to be made up of anxious overachievers, hounded by Tiger Moms and constantly tracked on ...

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She Who Remembers

by Linda Lay Shuler

Published: 2013-07-23

Paperback: 514 pages

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In an ancient time of fear and superstition, she stood apart because of her unusual blue eyes. In a land of great stone cities and trackless wilderness, she sought her own unique path. But it was with the clan that accepted her—and in the heart of the magic man who saved her—that she found her ultimate...

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Relatively Normal (Relativity Series Book 1)

by Whitney Dineen

Published: 2018-10-08

Kindle Edition: 344 pages

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"I laughed, I cried, and I laughed some more--this is one you don't want to miss!" -Loretta Nyhan, bestselling author of Digging In"The perfect blend of laugh-out-loud humor and sweet sexiness!" - Amazon ReaderCatriona Masterton's fiancé, Ethan, is Normal. He plans trips six months in adv...

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The Woman in the Window - Was hat sie wirklich gesehen?: Thriller - Der New-York-Times-Bestseller (German Edition)

by A. J. Finn

Published: 2018-03-01

Kindle Edition: 545 pages

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Der internationale Bestseller: von 0 auf Platz 1 der New York Times-Bestsellerliste und von 0 auf Platz 2 der Sunday Times-Bestsellerliste in England!»Der fesselndste Thriller, den ich seit 'Gone Girl' gelesen habe. A.J. Finn ist ein kühner Debütautor – meisterhaft.« Tess GerritsenAn...