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The Emerald Atlas (Books of Beginning)

by John Stephens

Published: 2011-04-05

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Kate, Michael, and Emma have been in one orphanage after another for the last ten years, passed along like lost baggage.Yet these unwanted children are more remarkable than they could possibly imagine. Ripped from their parents as babies, they are being protected from a horrible evil of de...

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Emerald City

by Jennifer Egan

Published: 2007-10-09

Paperback: 192 pages

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These eleven masterful stories ? the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan ? deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan's characters ? models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls ? are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experie...

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Emergence Christianity: What It Is, Where It Is Going, and Why It Matters

by Phyllis Tickle

Published: 2012-09-01

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Whatever else one might say about Emergence Christianity, says Phyllis Tickle, one must agree it is shifting and re-configuring itself in such a prodigious way as to defy any final assessments or absolute pronouncements. Yet the insightful and well-read Tickle offers us a dispatch from the...

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The Emerging Christian Way: Thoughts, Stories, and Wisdom for a Faith of Transformation

by Michael Schwartzentruber

Published: 2006-01-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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The face of Christianity is changing. In recent years, and in rapidly increasing numbers, people have begun to understand the core message and purpose of Christianity differently. They have returned to its ancient roots and found a wisdom that speaks to their experience of faith and God. According to...

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The Emigrants

by Vilhelm Moberg

Published: 1995-12

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Book One introduces Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their 3 young children, and 11 others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty, religious persecution, and social oppression of Smaland in 1850.

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The Emigrants

by Winfried Georg Sebald

Published: 1996

Hardcover: 237 pages

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The four long narratives in W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants at first appear to be the straightforward biographies of four people in exile: a painter, an elderly Russian, the author's schoolteacher as well as his eccentric great-uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retraces...

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Emile Zola :

by Belgrand

Published: 2000-03-09

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Emily and Einstein

by Linda Francis Lee

Published: 2011-03-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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He was a man who didn't deserve a second chance...but he needed one.Emily and her husband, Sandy Portman, seemed to live a gracious if busy life in an old-world, Upper West Side apartment in the famous Dakota building. But one night on the way to meet Emily, Sandy dies in a tragic accident...

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Emily and Einstein

by Linda Francis Lee

Published: 2013-01-29

Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages

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Emily and EinsteinLinda Francis LeeEmily Portman is an up-and-coming New York City editor whose life is everything she imagined it would be. She has a job she loves and a beautiful Upper West Side apartment with her husband, Sandy. But everything changes in one night when Sandy dies in a t...

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Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners

by Laura Claridge

Published: 2009-10-13

Paperback: 560 pages

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In an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the 1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first authoritative biography of Emily Post, who changed the mindset of millions of Americans with Etiquette, a perennial bestseller and touchstone of proper behavior.A daught...