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Resilience
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Elizabeth Edwards |
The bestselling author of Saving Graces shares her inspirational message on the challenges and blessings of coping with adversity.She's one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and o… |
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Die Hitlers
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Wolfgang Zdral |
Wolfgang Zdral bietet in seinem Buch erstmals eine vollständige Darstellung der gesamten Familie Hitler. Basierend auf teils unbekannten Quellen und Interviews mit Zeitzeugen und Nachfahren rekonstru… |
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When I married my mother
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Jo Maeder |
Jo Maeder was a not-so-young DJ on a decidedly youth-driven New York City radio station when a series of crises led her to do the unthinkable: move to North Carolina to care for her ailing, estranged… |
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The Steep Approach to Garbadale
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Iain M. Banks |
Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of Iain Banks's fabulous new novel.
The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful comp… |
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Sessiz ev
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Orhan Pamuk |
In a crumbling mansion in a gentrified former fishing village on the Turkish coast, the widow Fatma awaits the annual visit of her grandchildren: Faruk, a dissipated historian; his sensitive leftist … |
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The Life of Muhammad
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Muhammad Husein Haykal |
This biography of Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, is the first written by a contemporary Muslim scholar. It includes complete coverage of the Prophet's life, a detailed analysis of… |
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The silver crest
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Korneĭ Chukovskiĭ |
Relates a young Russian boy's experiences growing up in Odessa in the 1890's. |
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Children of the alley
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Naguib Mahfouz |
The tale of a Mafia-like don in Egypt. He lives in a mansion in Cairo, uphill at the end of an alley whose inhabitants he exploits. He is the patriarch of a large family whose wealth comes from deali… |
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Continuity & change in the American family
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Suzanne M. Bianchi,Lynne M. Casper,Lynne M Casper |
"Continuity & Change in the American Family engages students with issues they see every day in the news, while providing them with a comprehensive description of the social demography of the American… |
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Changes for Julie
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Megan McDonald |
Julie is in school detention for passing a note to Joy, a deaf student who has trouble understanding what their teacher is saying. Indignant, Julie decides to run for student body president so she ca… |
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Julie's Journey
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Megan McDonald |
It's 1976 and the entire country is celebrating America's 200th birthday. Julie joins her cousins on a pioneer-style wagon train in honor of the Bicentennial. The journey is filled with adventures, c… |
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Julie and the Eagles
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Megan McDonald |
Julie and her best friend, Ivy, find a baby owl in Golden Gate Park--and it needs help. At a wildlife rescue center, Julie meets Shasta and Sierra, two bald eagles that will be caged for life, unless… |
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Judy Moody was in a Mood
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Megan McDonald |
Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage. |
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Of rainbows and clouds
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Yab Ugyen Dorji,Queen of Bhutan Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck |
Memoirs of Yab Ugyen Dorji on his ancestors and decendants, a merchant family from Bhutan. |
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The painted garden
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Noel Streatfeild |
This is a children's novel about an English family who travel to California. It focuses on the cross-grained Jane, whose personality alone lands her the role of Mary in a film version of *The Secret… |
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Barnen på Bråkmakargatan
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Astrid Lindgren |
Jonas, Maria, and Lotta, the rambunctious and unpredictable Nyman children, have a year of roughhouse adventures and prove that, while they are around, anything can happen. |
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The blue bedspread
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Raj Kamal Jha |
In the middle of a steamy Calcutta night the phone rings. An unnamed man in a city of millions answers to a voice telling him that his long-lost sister is dead. He must go to the hospital to identify… |
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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy |
The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down … |
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A Shine of Rainbows
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Lillian Beckwith |
***Mairi and Sandy live on a lonely Hebridean island, content with each other, despite their lack of children.***
When Mairi brings home Thomas, a child from the orphanage, Sandy is jealous of Mai… |
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Evergreen
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Belva Plain |
**8 Months on the N.Y. Times Best-Seller List. The Best-Loved Best-Seller of the Year:**
A young Polish immigrant woman, in love with the scion of the German-Jewish banking family for which she work… |
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