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Barn Blind
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Jane Smiley |
Written with the grace and quiet beauty of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *Barn Blind* is a spellbinding story on the classic American themes of work, love, and duty, and the lengths we will go to… |
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Tribulation Force
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Tim F. LaHaye |
In one cataclysmic moment, millions around the globe disappear.
Those left behind face impending war, famine, plagues, and natural disasters so devastating that only one in four people will surviv… |
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On the wings of heroes
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Richard Peck |
A boy in Illinois remembers the homefront years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the previous war.
Davy Bowmans brother and th… |
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The river between us
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Richard Peck |
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois. |
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Blood Ties
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Ralph M. McInerny |
Henry Dolan's granddaughter, Martha Lynch, adopted 23 years earlier, wants to find her birth parents. Her adopted parents are frantic over the idea of losing her, so Henry seeks out Father Dowling fo… |
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Abracadaver
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Ralph M. McInerny |
<I> Abracadaver</I> begins with a magic show at the St. Hilary’s parish center on a peaceful winter’s night in Fox River, Illinois. A ring inscribed “To FG from AG. Con amore” is used in a trick, but… |
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A Loss of Patients
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Ralph M. McInerny |
Phil Keegan and the Fox River, IL police department are bewildered by a series of unexplained deaths. Two attractive women, friends, are found dead, about a month apart: the first, in her bathtub wit… |
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Second Vespers
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Ralph M. McInerny |
Francis O'Rourke, noted American author, is more alive dead than he ever was when alive. He was born and grew up in Fox River, a town now seething with big O’Rourkian business. Collectors, scholars, … |
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Popular vote
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Micol Ostow |
Just in time for the Fall 2008 presidential election comes this fun, sassy story of politics, romance, girl empowerment, and what it means to be "popular."
Erin Bright is pretty, polished, and pop… |
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