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The Awakening
And Beyond the Bayou
Kate Chopin |
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Edna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at the cross road of her life. She is passionate and artistic, but has no one who understands her deep yearnings. But her life changes when she spends... |
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The Call of the Wild
Jack London |
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Buck lives a content life. Half St. Bernard, half Shepard, he is top dog on a California ranch. But the Gold Rush in the Klondike has produced an enormous demand for sled dogs so, when a gardener... |
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Day of Judgment
Paul Chavasse Series, Book 7
Jack Higgins |
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June 26, 1963 - President Kennedy's triumphant visit to the divided city of Berlin. With the aid of a renegade American, East German Intelligence has launched a desperate plot that could trigger... |
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The Fugitive Heart
Heart's True Desire Series, Book 1
Jane Orcutt |
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Are some crimes too horrible to forgive?Growing up on the Kansas prairie, Samantha Martin cherished two desires: to love God and marry her childhood sweetheart. But the War between the States took... |
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A Game For Heroes
Jack Higgins |
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The days of the Third Reich are numbered, but on an isolated outpost in the English Channel, the German Army has vowed a fight to the death. Under their brilliant, ruthless SS commander, the Nazi... |
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier |
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Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl, who becomes a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer. Her calm and perceptive manner not only helps... |
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The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara |
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After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels, remains as vivid and powerful as the... |
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Les Miserables
Victor Hugo |
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Les Misérables is primarily a great humanitarian work that encourages compassion and hope in the face of adversity and injustice. It is also a historical novel of great scope, and provides a... |
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Number the Stars
Lois Lowry |
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Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi... |
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Outback
Aaron Fletcher |
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Patrick Garrity started life unwanted and unloved as the bastard son of a female convict. Barely out of his teens, he worked to make a new life for himself in the limitless back country of New South... |
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