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A Child Called

by Dave Pelzer

Published: 1995

Hardcover: 294 pages

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Twp books in one volume.

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A Child Called

by Dave Pelzer

Published: 1995-09-01

Paperback: 184 pages

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This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that...

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The Child in Time

by Ian McEwan

Published: 1999-11-02

Paperback: 272 pages

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Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children's books, is confronted with the unthinkable: his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realizes his daughter is gone.With extrao...

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Child of God

by Cormac McCarthy

Published: 1993-06-29

Paperback: 208 pages

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In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.  While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical...

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Child of My Heart: A Novel

by Alice McDermott

Published: 2003-11-15

Paperback: 242 pages

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The Child of the Holy Grail: The Third of the Guenevere Novels

by Rosalind Miles

Published: 2002-05-28

Paperback: 512 pages

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Last in a line of proud queens elected to rule the fertile lands of the West, true owner of the legendary Round Table, guardian of the Great Goddess herself . . . a woman whose story has never been told?until now.Brokenhearted at her parting from Lancelot and anguished over the loss of the...

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Child of the Morning (The Hera Series)

by Pauline Gedge

Published: 2003-07-01

Paperback: 408 pages

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She ruled Egpyt not as Queen but as Pharaoh, 35 centuries ago. Yet her name-Hatshepsut-does not appear in dynastic scrolls, nor is her reign celebrated on monuments. This is the story of the young woman who assumed the throne of Egypt, mastered the arts of war and government, lived her lif...

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Child of the Mountains

by Marilyn Sue Shank

Published: 2012-04-10

Hardcover: 272 pages

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"Unfolds in pitch-perfect regional dialect. . . . For fans of Ruth White's and Kerry Madden's Appalachian-inspired fiction."--Kirkus ReviewsIt's about keeping the faith.Growing up poor in 1953 in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia doesn't bother Lydia Hawkins. She treasures her ti...

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Child of the Northern Spring: Book One of the Guinevere Trilogy

by Persia Woolley

Published: 2010-11-01

Paperback: 552 pages

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"An absorbing portrait of the Arthurian age." -San Francisco Chronicle Among the first to look at the story of Camelot through Guinevere's eyes, Woolley sets the traditional tale in the time of its origin, after Britain has shattered into warring fiefdoms. Hampered by neither fantasy nor ...

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Child of Tibet: The Story of Soname's Flight to Freedom

by Soname Yangchen, Vicki MacKenzie

Published: 2007-04-26

Paperback: 192 pages

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This book tells the remarkable story of Soname's triumph over adversity, told against the backdrop of a turbulent and dangerous Tibet. Soname was born in the harsh Tibetan countryside during the Chinese occupation. When she was just sixteen Soname risked death in a freedom trek across the Himalayas,...