Bethany Hamilton, a teenage surfer lost her arm in a shark attack off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii. Not even the loss of her arm keeps her from returning to surfing, the sport she loves.
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Author: Hamilton, BethanySummary:
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Author: Hingson, MichaelSummary:
Discover how blindness and a bond between dog and man saved lives and brought hope during one of America's darkest days.
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Author: Smiley, JaneSummary:
Contains two novellas by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley, including "Ordinary Love," in which Rachel, sharing a reunion with her grown children, recalls the love affair that...
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Author: Pratt, TamaraSummary:
Eden Mellor needs to prove she didn't kill her brother, Liam. Enter, the Story Makers. Sixteen-year-old Eden Mellor is living in a world where the population has become a victim of...
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Author: Hooper, ChloeSummary:
In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "deep north" of Australia, Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the...
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Author: Harbach, ChadSummary:
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the...
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Author: Asimov, IsaacSummary:
This series narrates the fall of a great galactic empire and the efforts of the Foundations to combat the barbarism that follows.
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Author: Patchett, Ann.Summary:
Struggling with single parenthood and a scandal that cost him his political career, Bernard Doyle fights his disappointment with his adopted sons' career choices before a violent event forces...
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Author: Magorian, MichelleSummary:
A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English countryside during the Second World War.
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Author: Conroy, Pat.Summary:
Leopold Bloom King, the narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce...
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Author: Bettger, FrankSummary:
A business classic, How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling is for anyone whose job it is to sell. Whether you are selling houses or mutual funds, advertisements or ideas, or...
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Author: Wick, LoriSummary:
Happily married Marrell Bishop adores her family, but feels there is a spiritual void in her life. Will her husband understand he cannot meet all her needs?
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Author: Pearlman, EdithSummary:
Contents: The jigsaw table -- Fidelity -- Toyfolk -- Allog -- Chance -- Accommodators -- Love among the greats -- Neighbors -- Big fish -- Fitting -- The thought of you -- Tess's...
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Author: Pearlman, EdithSummary:
Fifteen stories. They include The Cook, which deals with abandoned children being used as donors for body organs, and To Reach This Season, in which a homosexual adopts a boy from the Third World...
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Author: Dodgson, MarkSummary:
A short review of innovations as undertaken by Wedgwood, Edison and others.