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Author: John Bishop and Tiki DicksonSummary:
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Author: Deford, FrankSummary:
In The Old Ball Game, Frank Deford, NPR sports commentator and Sports Illustrated journalist retells the story of an unusual friendship between two towering figures in baseball history. At the...
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Author: Parsons, Robert C.Summary:
The story of Newfoundland and Labrador is a long and bloody one.
In Murder on the Rock, Robert C. Parsons describes some of the most horrific and puzzling crimes and shenanigans...
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Author: Rowe, BillSummary:
Part memoir, part history, The Worst and Best of the Premiers and Some We Never Had is Bill Rowe’s most ambitious work of non-fiction to date. The book observes with a critical and...
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Author: Barklem, JillSummary:
Step into the exquisite miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge in this beautiful new edition of the classic picture book. It was the middle of winter and very, very cold. The mice of Brambly...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Classic fiction -
Author: Kalbfleisch, JohnSummary:
For centuries Montreal reigned as Canada's most beguiling city. Inspired by the pages of the Gazette, Canada's oldest daily newspaper (founded in 1778), here are seventy-five true tales...
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Author: Jantunen, JohnSummary:
A high school football star who chooses a tour of duty in Afghanistan over a potentially lucrative career in the pros. A woman whose career as a nine-ball champion was cut short at the Nationals....
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Author: John, McPheeSummary:
This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point....
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Author: Christie, AgathaSummary:
As Hercule Poirot sifts through his post one particular morning, he alights upon a letter from an elderly and (as it transpires), exceedingly rich spinster - Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in...
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Author: Irving, JohnSummary:
When he was eleven years old, Owen Meany hit a foul ball that struck and killed the mother of his best pal, Johnny Wheelwright, the story's narrator. Thereafter, Owen believes himself to be...
Genre: Psychological fiction -
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If the world's cuisines share one common food, it might be the dumpling, a dish that can be found on every continent and in every culinary tradition, from Asia to Central Europe to Latin America....
Genre: Food and drink, History and geography -
Author: Ball, SimonSummary:
As John le Carré's fictional intelligence men admit, it was the case histories - constructed narratives serving shifting agendas - that shaped the British intelligence machine, rather than...
Genre: History and geography -
Author: Godsey, J. P. "Gus"Summary:
How Scooter Gets His Tail Back teaches children the importance of being a good listener and the dangers of bullying by introducing children to four personified animal creatures who have to make...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Berendt, JohnSummary:
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated...
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Author: Polidori, John WilliamSummary:
This classic vampire story has inspired generations of authors, from Bram Stoker to Charlaine Harris. A young English gentleman of means, Aubrey is immediately intrigued by Lord Ruthven, the...
Genre: Horror fiction