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All Woman and Springtime

by Brandon W. Jones

Published: 2012-05-01

Kindle Edition: 385 pages

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Before she met Il-sun at the orphanage, Gi was a hollow husk of a girl, broken from having grown up in one of North Korea’s forced-labor camps. A mathematical genius, she learned to cope with pain by retreating into a realm of numbers and calculations, an escape from both the past and th...

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Allah's Garden: A True Story of a Forgotten War in the Sahara Desert of Morocco

by Thomas Hollowell

Published: 2009-03-10

Paperback: 198 pages

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A former Peace Corps Volunteer's riveting nonfiction narrative delivers a captivating tale of dire hardship, faith, and human courage in Morocco. Allah's Garden focuses on a Moroccan doctor's 25-year detention by a militant group in prison camps within the Sahara Desert. This plight is int...

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Allawe

by Fran Hasson

Published: 2012-10-08

Paperback: 338 pages

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African proverb: "It takes a village to raise a child". The novel Allawe, promotes the same concept: "All of us". When Marla Alexander finds a mysterious box of ashes washed up on a Delaware beach on the second anniversary of her mother's death, she is compelled to find its owner, a search that will...

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The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel

by Brandon Sanderson

Published: 2011-11-08

Hardcover: 332 pages

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Fresh from the success of The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson, best known for completing Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time®, takes a break to return to the world of the bestselling Mistborn series.Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of mo...

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All's Fair: Love, War and Running for President

by Mary Matalin, James Carville

Published: 1995-08-31

Paperback: 528 pages

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Never before has a more revealing X ray been taken of the modern American presidential campaign than this compelling memoir of the nation's foremost political operatives, Democrat James Carville and Republican Mary Matalin. Not since Theodore White's legendary Making of the President seri...

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Alma Rose: A Novel (Forbes, Edith)

by Edith Forbes

Published: 1998-08-18

Paperback: 352 pages

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A young woman who has spent her entire life in a small, dusty town off the Interstate, working at her pop's mercantile, has her life thrown into chaos when a vivacious, cowboy-booted trucker, rolls into town.

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The Almond Picker

by Simonetta Agnello Hornby

Published: 2005

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The Almond Picker: A Novel

by Simonetta Agnello Hornby

Published: 2006-02-21

Paperback: 336 pages

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The child of poor farmers, La Mennulara became a maid for a well-to-do local family when she was only a girl; by dint of hard work and intelligence, she became the indispensable administrator of the family's affairs. Still, she was a mere servant, and now (as this story begins) she is dead...

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Almost a Woman

by Esmeralda Santiago

Published: 1999-09-07

Paperback: 336 pages

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"Not only for readers who share [Santiago's] experiences but for North Americans who seek to understand what it means to be the other."--The Boston GlobeIn her new memoir, the acclaimed author of When I Was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her emergence from the barrios of ...

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Almost Amish

by Kathryn Cushman

Published: 2012-07-01

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"Cushman crafts strong characters that areeasy to connect with."--Romantic TimesJulie Charlton is at the breaking point. She's overwhelmed and burned out, and in today's unrelenting society, her kids are, too. When her sister-in-law Susan, a Martha Stewart-in-training, lands the chance to participate...