Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among...
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Author: Walls, JeannetteSummary:
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Author: Coren, StanleySummary:
Evaluates the cultural, literary, religious, and economic ways in which the human race has shaped its relationship with dogs throughout the past 15,000 years, sharing stories of how dogs have...
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Author: Gulland, SandraSummary:
An eccentric young woman's love for a wild white stallion tempts her into using an ancient magic that overshadows her subsequent life and leads to her affair with the charismatic Louis XIV....
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Author: Collins, SuzanneSummary:
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by...
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Author: Jacobson, HowardSummary:
Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity...
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Author: Ondaatje, MichaelSummary:
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be...
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Author: Davis, KatieSummary:
Katie Davis traveled to Uganda for a short mission trip over the Christmas break of her senior year in high school. She found herself so moved by the Ugandan people and their needs that she knew...
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Author: Oppel, KennethSummary:
When his grieving father orders the destruction of the Dark Library, Victor retrieves a book in which he finds the promise of not just communicating with the dead, but entering their realm, and...
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Author: Penny, LouiseSummary:
When a peaceful monastery in Que?bec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sa?urete du Que?bec are challenged to...
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Author: RANKIN, IanSummary:
Rebus is ordered to join a team working on an old case, but someone on the team wants it to remain unsolved. Meanwhile, the murder of an art dealer draws Sergeant Clarke into an encounter with a...
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Author: CHRISTIE, AgathaSummary:
Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid, and his vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen. Five of his relatives are desparate to get their hands on Cloade's money, and Rosaleen...
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Author: HILL, SusanSummary:
In this fourth Det. Chief Supt. Simon Serrailler novel, a gunman is terrorising young women. What, if anything, links the apparently random murders? And is the marksman with the rifle the same as...
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Author: JAMES, P. DSummary:
Left alone by her partner's suicide, Cordella Gray struggles to manage the private detective agency they once shared. Inspector Dagleish has to solve the murder of a beautiful trouble-maker...
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Author: Thy͠, Kim.Summary:
A runaway bestseller in Quebec, with foreign rights sold to 15 countries around the world, Kim Thuy's Governor General's Literary Award-winning RU is a lullaby for Vietnam and a love...
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Author: Watt, MelanieSummary:
A squirrel tries to decide if he should leave his home. Photo descriptions in producers notes.