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Donald Harington - The Choiring Of The Trees

Donald Harington - The Choiring Of The Trees

A man is sentenced to death for rape but at the last minute his innocence is championed by a prominent newspaperman. Like most of Harington's ...

$6

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Loren D. Estleman - Poison Blonde

Loren D. Estleman - Poison Blonde

Flashy Latino singer Gilia Cristobal, wanted in her native country for a murder she did not commit, hires private investigator Amos Walker to find ...

$20

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Earl Lovelace - The Dragon Can't Dance

Earl Lovelace - The Dragon Can't Dance

This 1979 novel by Trinidadian writer Earl Lovelace (winner of the 1997 Commonwealth Writers prize for his novel "Salt") tells the story of the ...

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H.D. - The Gift

H.D. - The Gift

Imagist writer H. D. (1886-1961) wrote this memoir of her World War I childhood during the London Blitz of World War II.

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She Lao - Rickshaw: The Novel Lo-To Hsiang Tzu

She Lao - Rickshaw: The Novel Lo-To Hsiang Tzu

Rickshaw is a new translation of the twentieth-century Chinese classic Lo-t'o Hsiang Tzu, the first important study of a laborer in modern Chinese ...

$7 - $12

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Janis Hallowell - The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn

Janis Hallowell - The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn

A homeless man named Chester becomes obsessed with the idea that a teenage girl in his town is an incarnation of the Virgin Mary with miraculous ...

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Youme Landowne - Selavi, That Is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope

Youme Landowne - Selavi, That Is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope

Not many children's picture books feature a painting of police officers gazing impassively while sequences of mayhem and murder are reflected in ...

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Patricia St. John and Mary Mills - Star of Light

Patricia St. John and Mary Mills - Star of Light

Hamid rubbed the light from his eyes and looked again. He was not dreaming. It was his stepfather! The man watched Kinza as a snake might watch a ...

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Steven Brill - After: The Rebuilding and Defending America in the September 12 Era

Steven Brill - After: The Rebuilding and Defending America in the September 12 Era

Considers how America has and has not changed in the year after September 11, recounting events in the White House, Capitol corridors, Red Cross ...

$28

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Jess Walter - The Zero

Jess Walter - The Zero

Five days after a terrorist attack decimates his home city, Brian Remy struggles with gaps in his memory pertaining to a self-inflicted gunshot ...

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Horatio Alger Jr. - Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York With Boot Blacks

Horatio Alger Jr. - Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York With Boot Blacks

The author hopes that- while the volumes in this series may prove interesting stories- they may also have the effect of enlisting the sympathies of ...

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Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology

Growing Up Poor: A Literary Anthology

Hailed by <I>Booklist</I> as "valuable" and "eloquent," <I>Growing Up Poor</I> is a unique anthology of stories, poems, and essays about ...

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James Hogg - The Shepard's Calendar

James Hogg - The Shepard's Calendar

Drawing from his experiences as a young shepherd in the 1790s, Hogg produces a convincing and very human picture of the dangers, the pleasures, and ...

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