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Messenger
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Virginia Frances Schwartz |
Based on the lives of the author's mother and grandmother, tells the story of a widowed Croatian immigrant trying to keep her family together in the mining towns of Ontario in the 1920s and 1930s. |
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Sins of the mother
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Tara Hyland |
Follows a mother and daughter through post-World War II Ireland and London, demonstrating that family bonds can never be broken. |
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With a closed fist
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Kathy Dobson |
219 p. ; 22 cm |
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A Christmas carol
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Gaby Goldsack |
"Retold in verse and accompanied by Caroline Pedler's evocative illustrations, this [Christmas carol] is a story to provoke thought about the meaning of Christmas and leave the reader with a warm Chr… |
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Everything will be all right
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Douglas Wallace |
In this raw testimony of a heart-breaking, hardscrabble childhood, Doug Wallace paints an unforgettable portrait of a child determined to free himself from the cycle of poverty that strangled his fam… |
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The One Plus One
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Jojo Moyes |
"One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moye… |
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The long way home
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Audrey Howard |
"Amy Pearson's family is desperately poor - even by the standards of Edwardian Liverpool - but they have each other. Until Amy is torn from her home by her rich aunt, a woman obsessed by religion and… |
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
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Grace Lin,Grace Lin,Janet Song |
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon is a fantasy-adventure children's novel inspired by Chinese folklore. It was written and illustrated by Grace Lin and published in 2009. The novel received a 2010 Ne… |
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Families behind bars
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Kay Danes |
Explores the journeys of several families, from the UK, Australia, Canada and the US, who bear horrendous burdens having loved ones detained in foreign prisons. Includes interviews with some of the B… |
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Lies
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Hoffman, William |
"Wayland Garland, a successful businessman, wants to come to terms with the past he has hidden from his wife and daughter. He attempts to shake off the chains of his poverty-stricken upbringing by re… |
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Finding Scrooge
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Jason C. McDonald |
> Once upon a time – of all the good
> days in the year, on Christmas Eve...
Bob Cratchit and Ebenezer Scrooge are busy preparing for their holiday celebration. Five years have passed since Scroo… |
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Maggie
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Stephen Crane |
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is an 1893 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). The story centers on Maggie, a young girl from the Bowery who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by … |
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Fallen angels
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Tara Hyland |
Franny Healey grew up in post-war rural Ireland. Addicted to the glamorous films of the day, she determined to do whatever it took to one day be a film star herself; immortal, adored. When she fell p… |
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Families and Poverty
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Mary Daly,Grace Kelly |
v, 234 pages ; 24 cm |
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Stormy weather
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Paulette Jiles |
Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression, and maverick oil man Jack Stoddard moves his wife and three daughters from town to town searching for work, and the gamblin… |
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Wyndham's bride
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Mary Street |
Emily scarcely knew Sir Charles Wyndham, so she was shocked to find that he had asked for her hand in marriage. Her father was in dire need of the financial assistance Wyndham had promised. Without t… |
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The Rainmaker
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John Grisham |
In his final semester of law school, Rudy Baylor "finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and ruthless companies in America -- and exposing a complex, multibillion-dollar insurance… |
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A Christmas Carol
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Charles Dickens |
An allegorical novella descibing the rehabilitation of bitter, miserly businessman Ebenezer Scrooge. The reader is witness to his transformation as Scrooge is shown the error of his ways by the ghost… |
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Carry Me Down
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MARIA HYLAND,M. J. Hyland,M.J. Hyland,M J Hyland ,M. J. Hyland |
John Egan has a gift. He can tell when people are lying. Hoping that his talent will bring him fame, he has written to the Guinness Book of Records. But while he waits for a letter in return, his obs… |
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Hobo Jungle
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Dorothy Joan Harris |
During the Depression in 1939, ten-year-old Ellen misses her life before her father lost his job and her family had to move in with her grandfather in Vancouver, but when she meets a friendly homeles… |
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