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The Great Gilly Hopkins

by Katherine Paterson

Published: 1987-06-17

Paperback: 160 pages

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Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all. She has a county-wide reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. So when she's sent to live with the Trotters -- by far the strangest family yet -- Gill...

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Great House

by Nicole Krauss

Published: 2011-02

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During the winter of 1972, a woman spends a single night with a young Chilean poet before he departs New York, leaving her his desk. It is the only time they ever meet. Two years later, he is arrested by Pinochet's secret police and never seen again. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs ...

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Great House: A Novel

by Nicole Krauss

Published: 2010-10-12

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through. For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of P...

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The Great Influenza (The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History)

Published: 2004

Paperback: 548 pages

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The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history

by John M. Barry

Published: 2005-10-04

Paperback: 546 pages

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At the height of WWI, history?s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in...

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Great Iowa Walks: 50 Strolls, Rambles, Hikes, and Treks (A Trails Books Guide)

by Lynn L. Walters

Published: 2005-03-31

Paperback: 180 pages

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Wander prairies blazing with color. Climb up ridges and discover stunning vistas. Dip into quiet valleys and peaceful canyons. Glide through a golden forest, stroll a city street, stand beneath a waterfall or in a cave. In this book, Lynn Walters guides you to some of Iowa s most scenic and diverse trails....

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Great Irish Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Maria Edgeworth, William Carleton, Lady Gregory, Standish O'Grady, William Butler Yeats, James Stephens, James Joyce, Seumas O'Kelly, Liam O'Flaherty

Published: 2005-01-10

Paperback: 240 pages

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The Great Lenore

by J. M. Tohline

Published: 2011-06-15

Paperback: 204 pages

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The Great Lenore is the tale of a ravishing young Brit whose falsely-reported death provides her with an opportunity to begin a new life. Before she can disappear for good, however, she longs to know the reaction of her two-timing husband and his aristocratic family. To find out, Lenore en...

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The Great Life Makeover: Weight, Mood, and Sex

by Daniel Monti, Anthony Bazzan

Published: 2008-12-01

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Fat, cranky sex. Doesn't sound all that great, does it? The truth is, these three things?your weight, mood, and your sex life?are crucial elements of a great life at any age, but especially now that you're in the best years of your life. And they are the three elements that, when improper...

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The Great Lover: A Novel (P.S.)

by Jill Dawson

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 310 pages

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In 1909, sixteen-year-old Nell Golightly is a housemaid at a popular tea garden near Cambridge University, and Rupert Brooke, a new tenant, is already causing a stir with his boyish good looks and habit of swimming naked in nearby Byron's Pool. Despite her good sense, Nell seems to be fal...