Three American children battle to save their eccentric grandfather from losing his house when he tries to prevent a highway from being built.
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Author: BYARS, BetsySummary: -
Author: McCullough, ColleenSummary:Mary Horton is content with her comfortable, solitary existence . . . until she meets Tim. A beautiful young man with the mind of a child -- a gentle outcast in a cruel, unbending world -- he...
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Author: Bessel, RichardSummary:In Nazism and War, Richard Bessel, one of the preeminent authorities on the social and political history of modern Germany, demonstrates how racial hatred was the driving force behind–...
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Author: Wall, DorothySummary:
Classic children's stories of Blinky Bill and his friends in Australia.
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Author: Piper, DonSummary:As he is driving home from a minister's conference, Baptist minister Don Piper collides with a semi-truck that crosses into his lane. He is pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90...
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Author: Herman MelvilleSummary:
"The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles" are a series of "sketches," or short prose works, about the Galapagos Islands. They are primarily written from Melville's own...
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Author: Flower, KathySummary:
A traveller's guide to customs and culture of China.
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Author: Mallery, SusanSummary:Former underwear model turned entrepreneur Clay Stryker has loved, tragically lost and vowed that he'll never risk his heart again. After making his fortune, the youngest of the rugged...
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Author: Barofsky, Neil M.Summary:
In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and...
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Author: Griffin, W. E. B.Summary:Summer 1943. Two of the Allies’ most important plans for winning World War II are at grave risk—Operation Overlord’s invasion of France, and the Manhattan Project...
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Author: McGuire, JamieSummary:
The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the...
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Author: DAVISON, Frank DalbySummary:
This novel tells the memorable life-story of Dusty, a dingo-kelpie cross.
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Author: Pascoe, BruceSummary:The Little Red Yellow Black Book is an accessible and highly illustrated pocket-sized guide. It?s an invaluable introduction to Australia?s rich Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and...
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Author: Trollope, AnthonySummary:
Mark Roberts, a young clergyman, is appointed to Framley, home of Lord Lufton, who falls in love with Mark's sister.
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Author: Harrison, M. John (Michael John)Summary:
Michael Kearney, a British scientist, and his American partner, Brian Tate, unknowingly become the fathers of interplanetary travel while studying laboratory quantum physics. Kearney is also a...
Genre: Science fiction