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"Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: It's part guidebook, part memoir, part poetry." "Here in short, spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion...
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Carny Sullivan grew up in the zany world of a traveling carnival. Quaint and peaceful Serenity, Texas, has given her a home, a life, and a child. Logan Brisco is the smoothest, slickest, handsomest man Serenity, Texas has ever seen. But Carny Sullivan knows a con artist when she sees one---and she's seen plenty, starting with her father. As far as Carny Sullivan can tell, she's the only one in town who has his number. Because from his Italian shoes...
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Sonnenberg illuminates the friendships that have influenced, nourished, inspired, and haunted her and sometimes torn her apart. Each has its own lessons that Sonnenberg seeks to understand. Her method is investigative and ruminative; her result, fearlessly observed portraits of friendships that will inspire all readers to consider the complexities of their own relationships.
84) The other queen
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Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Scots, who trusted Queen Elizabeth's promise of sanctuary when she fled from rebels in Scotland and then found herself imprisoned as the guest of George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and his indomitable wife, Bess of Hardwick. The newly married couple welcome the doomed queen into their home, certain that serving as her hosts and jailers will bring them an advantage in the cutthroat world...
85) Alone
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A Massachusetts State Police SWAT sniper saves a woman and her young son by shooting the woman's armed husband. Now he finds himself in a twisted minefield of sordid wealth and family secrets in Gardner's latest "New York Times" bestseller.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of a Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider -- a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just plain mean grandparents. And in "Blowing Up On the Spot," a young woman works sorting tiles at a Scrabble factory after her parents have spontaneously combusted....
87) Out of control
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Kincaid brides volume 1
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Julia Gilliland has always been interested in the natural world around her, particularly the fossils and formations in the magnificent cave near her father's house. The cave seems plenty safe - until the day a mysterious intruder steals the rope she uses to climb out. Rafe Kincaid is a man used to being in control - of himself, his brothers, and his family's ranch. The last thing he expects is to find a woman trapped in a cavern on his land. Or to...
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 7
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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A mass-market paperback edition of The Last Battle, book seven in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white interior artwork by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes.During the last days of Narnia, the land faces its fiercest challenge-not an invader from without but an enemy from within. Lies and treachery have taken root, and only the king and a small band of loyal...
89) Living history
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IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 42
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[The author writes] about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. [This book] is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton. -Dust jacket.
90) Against the sky
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Brodies of Alaska volume 2
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In America's last wilderness there are no limits to what a man can do. For detective Nick Brodie, that means keeping the perps off the streets of Anchorage 24/7. Nick has never backed down from danger, but after the horrors he's seen, he's definitely in need of a break. Samantha Hollis never thought she'd meet anyone like Nick, especially in a place like Las Vegas. After one reckless, passionate night, she discovers the charismatic stranger is...
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Mitford years volume 9
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
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The final volume in the "Mitford Years" series finds Father Tim contemplating the revival of a remote mountaintop church, a challenge he hopes will be his ultimate calling, but fears will be an impossible task.
93) The smoke jumper
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Julia Bishop must choose between two best friends who both love her, in a story of love, loyalty, honor, and guilt set against the perilous backdrop of wilderness fire fighting and photojournalism.
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Fifty-year-old Susannah Nelson is returning to her hometown of Colville, Washington, to live with her mother, a recent widow who is having difficulties living alone. Susannah begins to regret some decisions she made in the past, including leaving her boyfriend, Jake, when she went abroad to go to school.
96) On borrowed time
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Proposing to his girlfriend Jen and accompanying her to Kendrick Falls in spite of rumors that no man has ever gone to the falls with Jen and come back the same, Richard suffers a car accident on the journey only to discover that Jen has disappeared.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
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1922 opens with the confession of Wilfred James to the murder of his wife, Arlette, due to a long-standing argument about farmland willed to Arlette by her father. In "Big Driver", mystery writer Tess has been supplementing her writing income for years by doing speaking engagements with no problems. But following a last-minute invitation to a book club 60 miles away, she takes a shortcut home with dire consequences. Suffering from cancer, Dave Streeter...
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 22
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Jury investigates the death of a young escort who has been murdered behind a local pub. The only witness is the establishment's black cat, who gives neither crook nor clue as to the girl's identity or her killer's.
100) Don Quixote
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Everyman's library volume 3
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From the publisher. Our ceaseless human quest for something larger than ourselves has never been represented with more insight and love than in this story of Don Quixote -- pursuing his vision of glory in a mercantile age -- and his shrewd, skeptical manservant, Sancho Panza. As they set out to right the world's wrongs in knightly combat, the narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy, taking in pastoral, farce, and fantasy on...