In The White Streak, Jimmy Babcock is a worker at the local bank run by William Parker. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how this will hurt Muriel Aiken, his fiancée. An unexpected...
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Author: Brand, MaxSummary:Genre: Western fiction
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Author: Jones, HettieSummary:
The Underground Railroad was the passage to freedom for many slaves, but it was rife with dangers. While there were dedicated conductors and safe houses, there were also arduous nights in the...
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Author: Maillard, KeithSummary:
The Summer of Love is already like a distant memory; the psychedelic underground has turned in on itself. John Dupre has deserted a perfectly satisfying life as a student in Toronto, drawn back to...
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Author: SCOTLAND, Laurel, SCOTLAND, TomSummary:
This book tells the stories of Tom and Laurel Scotland, a West Australian couple. The book deals with their meeting, marriage and twenty-two years work as missionaries with WEC International, and...
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Author: McInnes, GrahamSummary:
Graham McInnes was one of many talented young people recruited by the charismatic John Grierson to build the National Film Board of Canada during the heady days of WWII. McInnes’s memoir of these...
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Author: Steel, DanielleSummary:
Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco's busiest emergency room, SF General. With his ex-wife and daughters in London, he immerses himself in his work and lives for rare visits...
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Author: CLANCY, TomSummary:
With the Chinese invasion of the oil-rich Spratly Islands, World War III begins, and Capt. Bart Mackey is dispatched with his nuclear submarine to protect a carrier group. Fifteen fact-based...
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Author: Jennewein, Jim., Parker, Tom S.Summary:
In an ancient and mystical time, fourteen-year-old Dane joins forces with his rival, Jarl the Fair, to retrieve the Shield of Odin and Astrid, the girl they love, from the tyrant Thidrick,...
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Author: Bellow, SaulSummary:
Augie is a poor but exuberant boy growing up in Chicago during the Depression. While his friends all settle into chosen professions, Augie demands a special destiny. He tests out a wild succession...
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Author: Jennewein, Jim.Summary:
In order to save his one true love and prevent the destruction of the earth, Dane the Defiant must defeat an old--and undead--enemy.
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Author: Jennewein, Jim., Parker, Tom S.Summary:
In the fortress of King Eldred the Moody, Dane the Defiant receives honors and a magical rune sword that belonged to his father, but he also finds treachery that sends him and his friends on a...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Fantasy fiction