Eric is the strangest, most curious foreign exchange student ever known who has a fascination with small discarded things that he finds on the ground. But is only after he has left that the family find a truly wonderful surprise in...
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Struggling through his dyslexia to try to fulfill his girlfriend Fiorella's request for a letter revealing his secret self, eighteen-year-old Karl asks Fiorella's favorite author for help, and he agrees only if Karl will...
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The Once-ler tells a young boy about how he came to the beautiful land of the truffula trees and used the trees to manufacture thneeds. The Lorax, who speaks for the trees, makes appeals to save the environment but is ignored. Suggested...
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Confronting the possibility of death has led Jake to re-evaluate all that he took for granted in life and to encourage others to do the same. His book is an uplifting call to action to people of all ages.
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Jean Batten became an international icon in the 1930s. A brave, glamorous woman, she made a number of heroic solo flights across the world. The newspapers couldn't get enough of her; and yet she suddenly slipped out of view,...
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Uses the cumulative nursery rhyme, about the chain of events that started when Jack built a house, as a metaphor to illustrate the arrival and settlement of the European settlers in New Zealand during the early 19th century. Includes...
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Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that confirms the reality of Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur...
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite...
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In Beverly Lewis' enthralling sequel to her New York Times best-selling novel The Secret, two young ladies-one Amish, the other English-join forces to solve the mystery of a mother gone missing and a disease gone wild. Will these...
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From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay - an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and what you need to know about your health. More...
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Canadian literary great Guy Vanderhaeghe's eclectic and wryly insightful collection of nonfiction pieces spans his forty-year writing career. Many editors and publishers over the years have asked Guy Vanderhaeghe for his thoughts...
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From the former Chief Justice of Canada and #1 bestselling author of Full Disclosure comes a razor-sharp thriller featuring defense attorney Jilly Truitt as she defends a high-profile mother accused of kidnapping her own child. Jilly...
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A murder on Canada's Sunshine Coast hits close to home for a former city cop in this crime series-the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town. Karl Alberg was a big-city cop, for Pete's sake. He solved...
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A housewife's murder draws a Canadian detective into a twisted family drama in this mystery thriller - the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town. Maria Buscombe was a housewife living in Sechelt, British...
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A "stunning mystery" in the Edgar Award-winning series that launched the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town - "the ending is a real killer" (The New York Times). In this masterpiece of psychological...
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In the quiet Amish community of Hickory Hollow, Pennsylvania, time has stood still while cherished traditions and heartfelt beliefs have flourished. But a secret lies buried that could shatter the tranquility its inhabitants have grown...
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This Edgar Award-winning debut kicks off the crime series-and basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town -set along Canada's Sunshine Coast. To Karl Alberg, the coastal town of Sechelt, just north of Vancouver,...
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Summer along Canada's Sunshine Coast is murderously hot in this moody mystery thriller-the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town. RCMP Sergeant Karl Alberg is attempting to escape the heat with his girlfriend...
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Murder casts a dark shadow over Canada's Sunshine Coast in this Edgar Award-winning crime series-the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town. Gordon Murphy has a Midas touch for business, but he's all...
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