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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)

by Ransom Riggs

Published: 2016-08-02

Paperback: 392 pages

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The #1 New York Times Best Seller is now a major motion picture from visionary director Tim Burton, starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Samuel L. Jackson, and Judi Dench.   Bonus features • Q&A with author Ransom Riggs • Eight pages of color stills from the film • Sn...

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Persephone Classics)

by Winifred Watson

Published: 2008-12-31

Paperback: 256 pages

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Miss Pettigrew is about a governess sent by an employment agency to the wrong address, where she encounters a glamorous night-club singer, Miss LaFosse. 'The sheer fun, the light-heartedness' in this wonderful 1938 book 'feels closer to a Fred Astaire film than anything else' comments the Preface-writer...

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Miss Potter: The Novel

by Richard Maltby Jr.

Published: 2006-12-28

Paperback: 189 pages

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A novel based on the upcoming motion picture on Beatrix Potter�s life, starring Ren�e Zellweger as Beatrix Potter and Ewan McGregor as the man she loved. Written by the film�s screenwriter, the novel expands the plotline of his script, blending historical fact and imaginative interpretation to tell a...

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Miss Scarlet's School of Patternless Sewing (Crafty Chica)

by Kathy Cano-Murillo

Published: 2011-03-08

Paperback: 352 pages

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Sometimes to find your life's true path, you have to stray outside the lines . . .Scarlet Santana is never happier than when creating fabulous fashions for women of all shapes and sizes. Now, after years of hard work, she finally has the chance to live her dream and study under the hottest...

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Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller

by Sarah Miller

Published: 2010-08-31

Paperback: 256 pages

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Annie Sullivan was little more than a half-blind orphan with a fiery tongue when she arrived at Ivy Green in 1887. Desperate for work, she?d taken on a seemingly impossible job?teaching a child who was deaf, blind, and as ferocious as any wild animal. But if anyone was a match for Helen Ke...

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Miss Timmins' School for Girls: A Novel

by Nayana Currimbhoy

Published: 2011-06-21

Paperback: 496 pages

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A murder at a British boarding school in the hills of western India launches a young teacher on the journey of a lifetime In 1974, three weeks before her twenty-first birthday, Charulata Apte arrives at Miss Timmins' School for Girls in Panchgani. Shy, sheltered, and running from a scan...

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Miss Understanding

by Stephanie Lessing

Published: 2006-11-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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The Missing (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Tim Gautreaux

Published: 2010-03-09

Paperback: 384 pages

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A masterful novel set in 1920s Louisiana, The Missing is the story of Sam Simoneaux, a floorwalker at a New Orleans department store. When a little girl is kidnapped on Sam's watch he is haunted by guilt, grief, and ghosts from his own troubled past. Determined to find her, Sam sets out on...

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Missing Joseph

by Elizabeth George

Published: 2008-04-15

Paperback: 592 pages

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Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead?a victim of accidental poisoning. ...

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Missing Lucile: Memories of the Grandmother I Never Knew (Shannon Ravenel Books)

by Suzanne Berne

Published: 2010-10-12

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Even as a child, Suzanne Berne understood the source of her father's terrible melancholy: he?d lost his mother when he was a little boy. Decades later, with her father now elderly and ailing, she decides to try to uncover the woman who continues to haunt him. Every family has a missing per...