Faith Jackson knows little about her parents' lives before they moved to England. Happy to be starting her first job in the costume department at BBC television, and to be sharing a house...
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Author: Victoria HoltSummary:
Jessica's early days were spent in the shadow of Oakland Hall, her family's ancestral home which, owing to financial difficulties, they had been obliged to sell to the rumbustious opal...
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Author: Wong, JanSummary:Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn't keen...
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Author: EDWARDS, KimSummary:A New York Times Bestseller. Forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins, Dr. David Henry makes a split second decision - he keeps the healthy boy and tells the nurse to bring the girl, who has...
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Author: Roanhorse, RebeccaSummary:
While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinaetah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the...
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Author: Thanh, YasukoSummary:
1908. The French rule Saigon. Georges-Minh, a Vietnamese national and Paris-educated physician, nurses a secret loathing for the French connections that have made him rich, even as they have torn...
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Author: Lang, AmandaSummary:
Truly successful people dont merely tolerate discomfort - they embrace it and seek it out again and again. Business founders and university students, top athletes and couch potatoes, meditation...
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Author: Methot, SuzanneSummary:
Exploring intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities--and strategies for healing--with provocative prose and an empathetic approach. Indigenous peoples have shockingly higher rates of...
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Author: Pruessen, Linda, Williams, DaveSummary:
Astronauts on the International Space Station must protect their resources--their lives depend on it. The same is true about Earth. For the planet to survive, we must also conserve water, air,...
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Author: Soderstrom, MarySummary:
Soderstrom documents how routes of migration and transport have transformed both humanity and our planet. Begins with the story of how anatomically modern humans left Africa to populate the world...