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Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History b...
The heart-stopping story of the fight for Texas by The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.
In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred about 200-250 Texans who had been trapped in a tiny adobe... more
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The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James by Bob Deans
The River Where America Began takes readers on a journey along the James River from the earliest days of civilization nearly 15,000 years ago through the troubled English settlement at Jamestown and finishing with Lincoln's tour of the defeated capital of Richmond in 1865. Deans traces the... more
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Silent by David Mellon
Although she doesn't know it, Adi is in deep peril. She's inadvertently made an enemy of a mysterious stranger named Coal, who is just waiting for the chance to take revenge on her and her family.
Innocent Adi is only annoyed when she's entrusted with taking her pampered younger twin brothers... more
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My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety by Georgia Pritchett
When Georgia Pritchett found herself lost for words -- a bit of a predicament for a comedy writer -- she turned to a therapist, who suggested she try writing down some of the things that worried her. But instead of a grocery list of concerns, Georgia wrote this book.
A natural born worrywart,... more
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Only Killers and Thieves (Billy McBride, Bk 1) by Paul Howarth
Two brothers are exposed to the brutal realities of life and the seductive cruelty of power -- a story of savagery and race, injustice and honor, set in the untamed frontier of 1880s Australia.
An epic tale of revenge and survival, Only Killers and Thieves is a gripping and utterly... more
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Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House by Meghan Daum
From the acclaimed author and columnist: a laugh-out-loud journey into the world of real estate, the true story of one woman's "imperfect life lived among imperfect houses" and her quest for the four perfect walls to call home.
After an itinerant suburban childhood and... more
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Revolutionary by Alex Myers
“A remarkable novel” (The New York Times) about America’s first female soldier, Deborah Sampson Gannett, who ran away from home in 1782, successfully disguised herself as a man, and fought valiantly in the Revolutionary War.
At a time when rigid societal norms seemed... more
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Masters Of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces by Linda Robinson
Now in paperback: Linda Robinson's intimate, exclusive-and New York Times best-selling- account of the most secretive and elite soldiers in the U.S. Army today Army Special Forces soldiers have been at the forefront of America's counterterrorist campaigns in recent years. But little is known... more
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The Accidental Captives: The Story of Seven Women Alone in Nazi Germany by Carolyn Go...
In April 1941, a passenger ship sailing from New York to Cape Town was attacked and sunk by a German raider in the South Atlantic. The passengers were pulled from the waters and transported to Nazi-occupied France, where the majority, as (at that time) neutral citizens of the United States, were... more
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Gimme Shelter by Mary Elizabeth Williams
"Of course I want a home," writes Mary Elizabeth Williams, "I'm American." Gimme Shelter is the first book to reveal how this primal desire, "encoded into our cultural DNA," drove our nation to extremes, from the heights of an unprecedented housing boom to the depths of an unparalleled crash.As... more
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Daring Young Men: The Heroism and Triumph of The Berlin Airlift-June 1948-May 1949 by...
In the early hours of June 26, 1948, phones began ringing across America, waking up the airmen of World War II -- pilots, navigators, and mechanics -- who were finally beginning normal lives with new houses, new jobs, new wives, and new babies. Some were given just forty-eight hours to report to... more
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Lightning Sky: A U.S. Fighter Pilot Captured during WWII and His Father's Quest to Fi...
A U.S. fighter pilot captured by the enemy. A father determined to rescue his son. One of the most remarkable and moving true stories of faith and perseverance to come out of World War II.
October 6, 1944. Twenty-year-old Army Air Corps Second Lieutenant David ?Mac? Warren MacArthur was on a... more
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A Shout in the Ruins by Kevin Powers
Set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond, this novel by the award-winning author of THE YELLOW BIRDS explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society.
Spanning over one hundred years, from the antebellum era to the 1980's, A Shout in the Ruins... more
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A Good Month for Murder: The Inside Story of a Homicide Squad by Del Quentin Wilber
Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives?does its almost impossible jobTwelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good month for... more
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Dirty Dishes: A Restaurateur's Story of Passion, Pain, and Pasta by Pino Luongo &...
The ultimate insider?s story: a no-holds-barred memoir by the legendary restaurateur, from his boyhood in Tuscany to his rise, fall, and rebirth in the New York food world. Everyone has an opinion about Pino Luongo. To Anthony Bourdain, he was the notorious Pino Noir, the shadowy kingpin of a... more
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Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits: The Crime Spree that Gripped Belle Epoque Paris by J...
For six terrifying months in 1911-1912, the citizens of Paris were gripped by a violent crime streak. A group of bandits went on a rampage throughout the city and its suburbs, robbing banks and wealthy Parisians, killing anyone who got in their way, and always managing to stay one step ahead of... more
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I Don't Have a Happy Place: Cheerful Stories of Despondency and Gloom by Kim Korson
When a trip to the therapist ends with the question ?Can?t Kim be happy?? Kim Korson responds the way any normal person would?she makes fun of it. Because really, does everyone have to be happy?
Aside from her father wearing makeup and her mother not feeling well (a lot), Kim Korson?s 1970s... more
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The Great Swim by Gavin Mortimer
The dramatic story of the four courageous female swimmers who captivated the world in the summer of 1926. Despite the tensions of a world still recovering from World War I, during the summer of 1926, the story that enthralled the public revolved around four young American swimmers—Gertrude... more
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Presidio: A Novel by Randy Kennedy
?Fluent, mordant, authentic, propulsive?wonderfully lit from within? (Lee Child, The New York Times Book Review), this critically acclaimed, stunningly mature literary debut is the darkly comic story of a car thief on the run in the gritty and arid landscape of the 1970s Texas panhandle.
In... more
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Silent In The Sanctuary (Lady Julia Grey, Bk 2) by Deanna Raybourn
The March family has the reputation of being wild as March hares, but when it comes to murder they are no fools. Lady Julia Grey (formerly March) is in Italy with two of her brothers, recovering from the murder of her husband and her own near-death in a fire (Silent in the Grave, 2007). When... more
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The Fisherman's Son by Michael Koepf
Drifting in a life raft off the northern California coast after a horrifying shipwreck, Neil Kruger retreats from his fear by recalling scenes from his childhood as the son of a commercial fisherman out of Half Moon Bay. With his emergency rations fast running out, he finds solace in his vivid... more
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Hooked : Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish by G. Bruce Knecht
This modern pirate yarn has all the makings of a great true adventure tale and is also an exploration of the ways our culinary tastes have all manner of unintended consequences for the world around us.Hooked is a story about the poaching of the Patagonian toothfish (known to gourmands as Chilean... more
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American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, A Man Who Turned Disaster ...
The remarkable story of nineteenth-century millionaire William Skinner, a leading founder of the American silk industry, who lost everything in a devastating flood—and his improbable, inspiring comeback to the pinnacle of the business world.
In 1845, penniless William Skinner sailed in... more
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Lost in the Amazon : The True Story of Five Men and their Desperate Battle for Surviv...
In 1995, Stephen Kirkpatrick joined a five-man expedition into the remote jungles of the Peruvian Amazon. Kirkpatrick's assignment was to document an area of the rainforest that had never before been photographed, nor by most accounts, ever explored by white men. Within hours of their... more
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Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People by William L. Iggia...
The inspiring true story of one man's quest to preserve and defend his people's Ilitqusiat?Native Spirit. As a young man growing up on the shores of Kotzebue Sound, twenty-nine miles north of the Arctic Circle, William L. Iggiagruk Hensley learned to live the way his ancestors had for thousands... more
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The Occupied Garden: A Family Memoir of War-Torn Holland by Kristen den Hartog & ...
The Occupied Garden is the powerful true story of a market gardener and his fiercely devout wife who were living a simple life in Holland when the Nazis invaded in 1940. During the subsequent occupation, Gerrit and Cor den Hartog struggled to keep their young family from starving and from being... more
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The Stillest Day by Josephine Hart
The most powerful and daring novel yet by the bestselling author of "Damage", this compelling and painfully beautiful novel looks at a young woman at the turn of the century who transgresses--both in life and art--the limits set for her.
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Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade by John Hawkes
A Western tall tale and a psychological thriller of stunning insight and depth, this is Hawkes' most ambitious work ever.
"...The narrator of this long novel is one Sunny Deauville, the madame of a 1965-era brothel in Alaska called Gamelands, Hawkes' focus is on exploits not in bed but in... more
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Turtle Feet by Nikolai Grozni
Nikolai Grozni was a music prodigy, a jazz pianist training at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, when suddenly he decided to transform his life. He moved to India to become a Buddhist monk?shaving his head, learning Tibetan, and donning long traditional robes. In the... more
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Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program by Stephen Grey
For the first time, Stephen Grey tells the inside story of international prisons sanctioned by the U.S. Government and used by the CIA to hold and torture people suspected of terrorism. Using contacts deep inside the U.S. Government, Grey reveals how deeply the Bush administration is... more
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Lifesaving Lessons: Notes from an Accidental Mother by Linda Greenlaw
Linda Greenlaw isn’t a woman who shies away from a challenge—a nationally renowned swordfish boat captain made famous in the film The Perfect Storm, Greenlaw is also a bestselling author and a television celebrity. Through hard work and determination, she had created a life of... more
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Out of the Depths: An Unforgettable WWII Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking ...
The Inspiring Story of a World War II Hero's Miraculous Survival at Sea
July 30, 1945--The USS Indianapolis and its 1,196-man crew is making its way toward a small island in the South Pacific. The ship is sailing unescorted, assured by headquarters the waters are safe. It is midnight, and... more
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The Eiger Obsession: Facing the Mountain that Killed My Father by John Harlin
In the 1960s an American named John Harlin II changed the face of Alpine climbing. Gutsy and gorgeous -- he was known as "the blond god" -- Harlin successfully summitted some of the most treacherous mountains in Europe. But it was the north face of the Eiger that became Harlin's obsession.... more
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This Family of Mine: What It Was Like Growing Up Gotti by Victoria Gotti
The No-Holds-Barred Truth About Life Inside the Gotti Dynasty -- Told by Their Most Famous Daughter
Victoria Gotti never intended to reveal the inside story of the Gotti household -- the day-to-day life of a family that has sparked scandalous rumors and sensational headlines for decades. But... more
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Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster by Melissa Fay Greene
The deepest coal mine in North America was notoriously unpredictable. One late October evening in 1958, it "bumped" - its rock floors heaving up and smashing into rock ceilings. A few miners staggered out, most of the 174 on shift did not.Nineteen men were trapped, plunged into darkness, hunger,... more
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The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African... more
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Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home--A Memoir by Lise Funderburg
Pig Candy is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months. During a series of visits with her father to the South he'd escaped as a young black man, Lise Funderburg, the mixed-race author of the acclaimed Black, White, Other, comes... more
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The Morning River by W. Michael Gear
During the winter of 1825, Richard Hamilton--a timid Harvard philosophy student--arrives in St. Louis on business for his father. Robbed and beaten, desperate to save his life, he reluctantly joins the crew of the Maria, a fur trader's keelboat. Bound for the beautiful, wild, and dangerous... more
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4,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison by Warren Fellows
In the late 1970s, author Warren Fellows and two of his friends had the perfect scheme: they would traffic heroin between Australia and Thailand, concealing it flawlessly in high-tech, invisible compartments in suitcases. The money was there, and the process seemed foolproof--especially because... more
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Together on Top of the World: The Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the F...
On May 16, 2002, Phil and Susan Ershler reached thetop of Mt. Everest and became the first couple in historyto scale the fabled Seven Summits. What madetheir achievement all the more remarkable was that Susanwas not a mountain climber, but a high-poweredFortune ® 500 executive who had never... more
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Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia by Stephen DeStefano
A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; a cougar stalks his prey through suburban backyards; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. Such stories, which regularly make headline news, highlight the blurred divide that now exists between civilization and... more
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Th...
On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. No one had ever explored the fabled Grand Canyon, to adventurers of that era a region almost as mysterious as Atlantis -- and as... more
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Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America by Terry Eagleton
Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as "aggressive," use superlatives... more
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Gabriel's Story by David Anthony Durham
David Anthony Durham makes his literary debut with a haunting novel which, in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, views the American West through a refreshingly original lens. Set in the 1870s, the novel tells the tale of Gabriel Lynch, an African American youth who settles... more
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Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach (Jimm Juree, Bk 2) by Colin Cotterill
In rural Thailand, former crime reporter Jimm Juree must grapple with her quirky family, a mysterious mother and daughter on the lam and the small matter of a head on the beach
When Jimm Juree's mother sold the family house and invested in a rundown 'holiday camp' at the southern... more
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FBI Girl : How I Learned to Crack My Father's Code by Maura Conlon-McIvor
From an evocative new voice comes the touching childhood memoir of an Irish Catholic girl struggling to connect with her enigmatic FBI agent father. Young Maura Conlons dad is a secret agent. And Maura knows what that means: chasing cars, jumping over buildings, handcuffing bad guys, just like... more
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Survive! : My Fight for Life in the High Sierras by Peter DeLeo
When Peter DeLeo set out one Sunday morning on a sightseeing and photography trip over the central Sierra Nevada mountains in California, he had no idea that he would soon be fighting for his life with the odds stacked very much against him. DeLeo's single-engine plane encountered turbulence,... more
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Swimming With Crocodiles: A True Story of Adventure and Survival by Will Chaffey
Will Chaffey was just eighteen when he went to Australia to work and travel around the country. There he met a fellow adventurer named Jeff, an enigmatic wanderer and expert on reptiles. With funding from Australian Geographic magazine, the two devised a plan to explore the remote Prince Regent... more
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Battle Rock: The Struggle Over a One-Room School in America's Vanishing West by Willi...
A colorful look at rural America's rebound--and at the tensions created when urban expatriates meet old-time country values--centered on a Colorado community and its one-room school house. In the 1990s, rural America increased in population three times faster than it did in the 1980s, as people... more
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Blindsided: Surviving a Grizzly Attack and Still Loving the Great Bear by Jim Cole &a...
Jim Cole has spent years tramping into the depths of places like Alaska, Yellowstone National Park and Glacier National Park in search of grizzlies, seeing these magnificent, powerful and reclusive animals at their most unguarded—foraging, fishing, caring for cubs, or simply lying in the... more
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The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails by E...
On Nov. 28, 1858, a ship called the Wanderer slipped silently into a coastal channel and unloaded its cargo of over 400 African slaves onto Jekyll Island, Georgia, thirty eight years after the African slave trade had been made illegal. It was the last ship ever to bring a cargo of African slaves... more
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Into the Savage Country: A Novel by Shannon Burke
From the author of Black Flies (a 2008 New York Times Notable Book): a breathtaking adventure set in the American West of the 1820s that gives us a tale of complex friendships, a love story, and a panoramic retelling of a crucial moment in American history.
When young William Wyeth leaves St.... more
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Breaking Trail : A Climbing Life by Arlene Blum
Arlene Blum is a legendary trailblazer by any measure. Defying the climbing establishment of the 1970s, she led the first teams of women on successful ascents of Mt. McKinley and Annapurna, and was the first American woman to attempt Mt. Everest. In her long, adventurous career, she has played a... more
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Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places by An...
For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth?Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It?s rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada?s oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the... more
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Pure Heart: A Spirited Tale of Grace, Grit, and Whiskey by Troylyn Ball & Bret Wi...
Troylyn Bell and her husband, Charlie, an engineer and real estate investor, had spent their entire lives in Texas. But after a near fatal trip to the emergency room with their mute, wheelchair-bound son Marshall, they admitted the dust and the heat were too dangerous. To save their boys, the... more
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A Circus without Elephants: A Memoir by Maralys Wills
Though Maralys Wills' odyssey begins at Stanford University, it ends six children and three grandchildren later with the realization that a family is like an ever-moving river, sometimes flowing serenely, at times boiling over obstacles, yet never quite diverted, even by tragedy. For those who... more
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Blood Feud: The Hatfields and the McCoys: The Epic Story of Murder and Vengeance by L...
America?s most notorious family feud began in 1865 with the murder of a Harmon McCoy, a Union soldier, by a Confederate Hatfield relative. But Southern grudges run long and deep. More than a decade later tempers flared over stolen hogs. This accusation triggered years of bloody violence and... more
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Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains by Yasuko Thanh
How can you stand up to tyranny when your own identity is in turmoil?
Vietnam is a haunted country, and Dr. Nguyen Georges-Minh is a haunted man. In 1908, the French rule Saigon, but uneasily; dissent whispers through the corridors of the city. Each day, more Vietnamese rebels are paraded... more
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Odysseus' Last Stand: The Chronicles of a Bicycle Nomad by Dave Stamboulis
Comprised largely of the detailed journals kept throughout his travels, this narrative of a bicyclist's seven-year, 40,000 kilometer odyssey around the world documents the richness of the planet's sights, sounds, and teeming life as experienced from the saddle of a bicycle. During his journey,... more
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Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Still Life with Woodpecker is sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a... more
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The Silent Girls (Canaan Crime, Bk 2) by Eric Rickstad
With the dead of a bitter Vermont winter closing in, evil is alive and well . . .
Frank Rath thought he was done with murder when he turned in his detective's badge to become a private investigator and raise a daughter alone. Then the police in his remote rural community of Canaan find an... more
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Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay: The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars by ...
The enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers.
As member of the regular army, these men formed an important segment of our usually slighted national military continuum... more
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This Stubborn Soil by William A. Owens
In this masterwork of classic Americana, William Owens eloquently recounts his struggle to overcome the harshest of adversaries - poverty and hunger - to earn an education in the small town of Pin Hook, Texas. He recalls in vivid detail how his mother labored to feed her family and hold it... more
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Anchored Hearts (Keys to Love, Bk 2) by Priscilla Oliveras
Award-winning photographer Alejandro Miranda hasn’t been home to Key West in years—not since he left to explore broader horizons with his papi’s warning “never to come back” echoing in his ears. He wouldn’t be heading there now if it wasn’t for an injury... more
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Life with an Electric Car by Noel Perrin
Part travelogue, part primer on electric cars, and pure storytelling at its best, this ecological Blue Highways is the witty, critically acclaimed chronicle of Perrin's adventures driving an electric car from the manufacturer's factory in California to his home in Vermont. Includes... more
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Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime by Gary Paulsen
Nearing sixty, diagnosed with heart disease and feeling his mortality, Gary Paulsen buys his first Harley-Davidson and rides from his home in New Mexico to Alaska-and from the present into his past, through the landmarks of a singular life. Paulsen's journey is peopled with familiar faces, from... more
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Walking Tractor And Other Country Tales by Bruce Patterson
Hard work and love of the land in the heart of redwood country. Imagine driving a tractor at fifteen miles an hour on a highway. Walking tractors is just one of the odd jobs Bruce Patterson has gotten good at. Set in northern California s Anderson Valley, these personal essays tell of Patterson... more
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Pearl of China by Anchee Min & Anchee Min & Anchee Min & Anchee Min
In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. Willow is the only child of a destitute family. Pearl is the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries. She will grow up to become Pearl S.... more
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg : or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who C...
The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago -- remote, tranquil, and now largely ignored. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, however, Run's harvest of nutmeg turned it into the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Red House : Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Live...
In her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores America’s fascination with history, family, and Great Houses. Her Massachusetts childhood home had sheltered the Hatch family for 325 years when her parents bought it in 1965. The will of the house’s original owner,... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves by Farley Mowat
More than a half-century ago the Canadian Wildlife Service assigned the naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone-studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves... more
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The River Queen: A Memoir by Mary Morris
In the fall of 2005 acclaimed writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi River in a battered old houseboat called The River Queen, with two river rats named Tom and Jerry and an ailing, irascible rat terrier named Samantha Jean. Her father had just died. Her daughter had gone off to... more
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The Ice Storm by Rick Moody
The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cars skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com face-to-face with the... more
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Mountain Voices: Stories of Life and Adventure in the White Mountains and Beyond by D...
Through interviews with New Hampshire notables at their homes and offices and in important places in nature, authors Doug Mayer and Rebecca Oreskes capture the truly human stories of pioneering people of the North Country. With humor, wit, and unforgettable personal style, the accounts?recorded... more
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Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from ...
An extraordinary and gripping account of Irena Sendler -- the "female Oskar Schindler" -- who took staggering risks to save 2,500 children from death and deportation in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II.
In 1942, one young social worker, Irena Sendler, was granted access to... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Incident on the Bridge by Laura McNeal
From National Book Award nominee Laura McNeal comes a gripping, tautly told novel that is at once hopeful and harrowing, and perfect for fans of We Were Liars and Bone Gap.
When Thisbe Locke is last seen standing on the edge of the Coronado Bridge, it looks like there is only one thing to... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Zeke and Ned by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana
Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors -- two proud, passionate men whose remarkable quest to carve a future out of Indian Territory east of the Arkansas River after the Civil War is not only history but legend. Played out against an American... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Wild Places: 20 Journeys into the North American Outdoors by Paul McHugh (Editor)
A compelling collection of 20 outdoor and adventure stories written by 10 top writers. Each story is accompanied by Trip Notes, providing the information you need to replicate the authors' journeys into the Great Outdoors.
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Story of my Escape: The story of my escape from the prisons of the Republic of Ve...
Europe's greatest adventurer. Thrown into an escape-proof prison for a crime he probably committed. The question is, which crime? In 1755, the infamous Giacomo Casanova was locked up without trial in Venice's notorious Leads prison. Over 15 months he battled disease, madness, boredom, grotesque... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
River House: A Memoir by M.S. Sarahlee Lawrence
River House is one young woman?s story about returning home to her family?s ranch and, with the help of her father, building a log house on the property. Sarahlee Lawrence grew up in remote central Oregon and spent her days dreaming about leaving her small town for world adventures. An avid... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Road to Reckoning: A Novel by Robert Lautner
?Remarkable?A novel about a young man reaching for manhood after the killing of his father and about the invention and selling of Col. Samuel Colt?s revolving pistol, and the way it changed the West. Those who love True Grit will love this? (Michael Korda, author of Hero).
One does not travel... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Simple Living: One Couple's Search for a Better Life by Frank Levering & Wanda Ur...
Originally published in 1992, long before "simple living" became a hot marketing trend, this groundbreaking work eloquently makes the case for a simpler, less stressful life. Told by Frank Levering and Wanda Urbanska, a literary couple who met as students at Harvard and moved from the fast lane... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Calligrapher's Daughter by Eugenia Kim
In early-twentieth-century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny, though her country -- newly occupied by Japan -- is crumbling, and her family, led by her stern father, is facing difficulties that seem insurmountable. Narrowly escaping an... more
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108
| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Villa America by Liza Klaussmann
A dazzling and spellbinding novel about art, love and marriage--in the tradition of The Paris Wife and Above All Things.
Sara and Gerald Murphy's good looks, talent for living and perfectly successful marriage breed both devotion and jealousy amongst their friends. But when Owen Chambers,... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Tornado Weather by Deborah E. Kennedy
Dark and dangerous and strange and wonderful, Kennedy writes with the gritty poetry of Daniel Woodrell and misfit sensibility of Flannery O'Connor. Benjamin Percy, five-year-old Daisy Gonzalez's father is always waiting for her at the bus stop. But today, he isn't, and Daisy... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Africa House : The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream (P.S....
In the declining years of the British Empire, in Northern Rhodesia, Stewart Gore-Browne was a proper English gentleman who built himself a sprawling country estate, complete with liveried servants, rose gardens, and lavish dinners finished off with vintage port in the library. All that was... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Road Song: A Memoir by Natalie Kusz
Natalie Kusz was attacked by an Alaskan sled dog that tore away half of her face. She wasn't expected to live, but she survived, though she lost an eye and faced grueling years of surgery, recovery, and reconstruction. Natalie tells her story in such a way that no reader can fail to find it... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Shooting the Boh : A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo (Vintage Departu...
A thrilling, touching, and densely instructive book, Shooting the Boh is also a frank self-portrait of a woman facing her most corrosive fears--and triumphing over them--with fortitude and unflagging wit. "A captivating and truly offbeat rite of passage."--Eric Hansen.
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Mad...
A VIVID AND FASCINATING LOOK AT AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE COUNTRY?S MOST STORIED HIGHWAY, THE BOSTON POST ROAD During its evolution from Indian trails to modern interstates, the Boston Post Road, a system of over-land routes between New York City and Boston, has carried not just... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Danger Stalks the Land : Alaskan Tales of Death and Survival by Larry Kaniut
Alaska is like no other state and few countries; men experience greater risk in her arms. This one-of-a-kind anthology captures the spine tingling adventures of daring men and women who venture into Alaska's vast wilderness and look death in the eye. Danger Stalks the Land relates gripping... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Elkhorn Tavern by Douglas C. Jones
From Douglas C. Jones, an author the Los Angeles Times called "a superb storyteller and authentic chronicler of the American West," comes a classic Civil War novel, long out of print but considered one of the great titles of the genre. With her husband gone east to fight for the Confederate... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Patriot Number One: A Chinese Rebel Comes to America by Lauren Hilgers
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY
New York Times Critics ? Wall Street Journal ? Kirkus Reviews
Christian Science Monitor ? San Francisco Chronicle
Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize
The deeply reported story of one... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon by John Hildebrand
John Hildebrand sets out in a canoe ... to explore the great riverway of northwestern Canada and Alaska ... The geography is closely rendered and the characters especially sharply drawn. The country is filled with mad dropouts at river fish camps, good-hearted girls in the towns,... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
An Island Out of Time : A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake by Tom Horton
Smith Island is a marshy archipelago in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. Although it is only nine miles from the mainland, it's 150 Waterman and their families live much as their ancestors did 300 years ago, exquisitely attuned to the habits of blue crab, oyster, and waterfowl, knowing... more
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The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Chang...
On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral shaped how future generations came to view the old West. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears by Diane Glancy
Poet, dramatist, short-story writer and essayist Glancy (winner of an American Book Award for Claiming Breath) turns her talents to the novel, recreating in this bone-true tale the sorrow, struggle and betrayal suffered by the Cherokee along the Trail of Tears.
In the winter of 1838-39,... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People (A Bison Book, 116) by George B....
Over 100 years ago author George Bird Grinnell, editor of Forest and Stream, founder of the Audubon Society and an advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt, was a famed explorer, naturalist and pioneer conservationist. Keenly interested in the lifestyles and welfare of Native Americans,... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Desperate Girls (Wolfe Security, Bk 1) by Laura Griffin
Defense attorney Brynn Holloran is right at home among cops, criminals, and tough-as-nails prosecutors. With her sharp wit and pointed words, she has a tendency to intimidate, and she likes it that way. She’s a force to be reckoned with in the courtroom, but in her personal life,... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre by Richard Grant
Twenty miles south of the Arizona-Mexico border, the rugged, beautiful Sierra Madre mountains begin their dramatic ascent. Almost 900 miles long, the range climbs to nearly 11,000 feet and boasts several canyons deeper than the Grand Canyon. The rules of law and society have never taken hold in... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathurst
A romantic historical story full of adventure and invention, The Lighthouse Stevensons is a unique account of how a single family virtually defined the Scottish coast by designing and building lighthouses in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
For centuries the seas around Scotland were... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Early One Morning by Virginia Baily
Two strangers save a child in Rome during WWII-a split-second decision that will have powerful reverberations for decades to come.
In 1943, one young woman, Chiara Ravello, is about to flee occupied Rome for the safety of her grandparents' house in the hills. Another has been herded onto a... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Lost in Mongolia : Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River by Colin Angus
From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it. Exploration... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Winner of the American Book Award and a critically acclaimed national best seller, Reservation Blues continues to find new and adoring readers in academic and popular circles alike. In 1931, Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil, receiving legendary blues skills in return. He went... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Good Morning Midnight by Chip Brown
This is the story of one man's attempt to find refuge from his demons in nature, and his ultimate surrender to it. Good Morning Midnight is an existential adventure story-thrillingly reported, brilliantly composed, provocative, and incisive.
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Tr...
?A story well worth putting yourself through...there is something exhilarating about confronting the past in all its ugliness and realizing that doing so has made you stronger? (The Washington Post).
Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot... more
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132
| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Paper Moon by Joe David Brown
Thirty years after its original publication and twenty-nine years after it became Peter Bogdanovich’s Academy Award-winning film, Joe David Brown’s last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. Addie Pray, PAPER MOON’s eleven-year-old heroine and narrator, is one of the... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Prisoners of the North by Pierre Berton
Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to chronicle the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters.Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to bring history to life. Prisoners of the North tells the extraordinary stories of five inspiring... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
On Celtic Tides: One Man's Journey Around Ireland by Sea Kayak by Chris Duff
A sea kayak battles the freezing Irish waters as the morning sun rises out of the countryside. On the western horizon is the pinnacle of Skellig Michael-700 feet of vertical rock rising out of exploding seas. Somewhere on the isolated island are sixth-century monastic ruins where the light of... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
A Place of Belonging: Five Founding Women of Fairbanks, Alaska by Phyllis Demuth Movi...
Alaska has always attracted people from varied backgrounds. In A Place of Belonging, Phyllis Movius introduces us to five women who settled in Fairbanks between 1903 and 1923 and who typify the disparate population that has long enriched Alaska. The women?s daily lives and personal stories are... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Queen of Katwe: One Girl's Triumphant Path to Becoming a Chess Champion by Tim Cr...
Already optioned for film by Disney directed by Mira Nair, The Queen of Katwe is the inspirational story of a teenage girl from one of the poorest slums in Africa who, thanks to one small effort to empower children through sport, became an international chess champion.
Phiona Mutesi, is a... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Driving on the Rim (Vintage Contemporaries) by Thomas McGuane
A Washington Post Best Novel of the Year
Berl Pickett is a housepainter turned doctor living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never been the social toast of the town, but when he is accused of negligent homicide in the death of his... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Walden (Courage Classics) by Henry David Thoreau
In 1845 Thoreau leased some land owned by his friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, and lived in a cabin on it for two years, two months, and two days. The experience gave Thoreau the chance to make keen observations on the world around him. The... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
3 Among the Wolves: A Couple and Their Dog Live a Year with Wolves in the Wild by Hel...
Helen and Bill Thayer, accompanied by their part-wolf, mostly Husky dog, Charlie, set out on foot to live among wild wolf packs ? first in the Canadian Yukon and then in the Arctic. They eventually set up camp within 100 feet of a wolf den, and are greeted with apprehension at first. They... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Sha...
A gripping tale of shipwreck and survival that changed the fate of the colonies and enriched our literary legacy
In 1609, aspiring writer William Strachey set sail aboard the Sea Venture, bound for the New World. Caught in a hurricane, the ship separated from its fleet and wrecked on... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
A Turn in the South by V. S. Naipaul
In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn in the South, his first book about the United States, is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the American South -- from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Easter House by David Rhodes
Originally published in 1974, this gripping novel tells the tale of the Easter family of Ontarion, Iowa. Ansel Easter was a favored minister until he rescued a grotesque creature from a carnival sideshow. His sons, C and Sam, suffer in the shadow of their outcast father until his violent death.... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Storyville by Lois Battle
Some say all women have a price -- that they all sell themselves somehow. There was once a place where that was true -- where hard cash bought the softest women. In turn-of-the-century New Orleans, it was called... Storyville.
Transplanted Yankee Julia Randsome was a blue-blooded suffragette... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Wildfire in the Wilderness by Chris Czajkowski
This latest book from Chris Czajkowski's spectacular corner of the world is another engrossing account of life in her wilderness. She regales the reader with stories of shimmering mountain peaks, roaring snow-fed creeks, bears, eagles and monstrous storms; and tales of her dogs--Bucky (short for... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Thomas Murphy: A Novel by Roger Rosenblatt
The acclaimed, award-winning essayist and memoirist returns to fiction with this reflective, bittersweet tale that introduces the irrepressible aging poet Thomas Murphy?a paean to the mystery, tragedy and wonder of life.Trying his best to weasel out of an appointment with the neurologist his... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
When My Mind Wanders It Brings Back Souvenirs by Gordon Kirkland
The author's commentary on the humor found in everyday events ranging from marriage to parenthood, dog ownership, health issues, and more. Kirkland is a master at finding the small hidden bits of humor in events that the rest of us might just as easily overlook. His goal with his writing... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Child Snatcher: A Novel by Aria Johnson
With the same gripping tension of The Girl on the Train and The Good Girl, The Child Snatcher tells the suspenseful story of a mother trying to save her lazy son from himself and then from an enigmatic woman of dubious character who seems determined to systematically destroy her small... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Surrounded by Insanity by Robert A. Hofmann
You’re sitting around the dinner table. It’s Christmas Day. Most of your family is there, along with a few friends. You’ve all just finished eating. You’re talking about your Aunt Carla, who isn’t there. You know which aunt. The one with the lisp. Everyone around the table is imitating her, and... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Good Neighbors by Ryan David Jahn
At 4 A.M., March 13, 1964: A young woman is attacked in the courtyard of her building. Not one of her neighbors comes to her rescue.
A young woman returning home from her shift at a local bar is attacked in her Queens apartment complex. Good Neighbors is the story of the woman's last... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain by Michael Paterson
The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but the familiarity with later 19th-century stories and history tends to give us a distorted view. Using character portraits and key events, Paterson brings the world of Victorian Britain alive, from the lifestyles of... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Guardian Angels by Joseph A. Citro
Joseph A. Citro takes us back to Antrim, Vermont, and the site of the ugliest event in the town's history. When Sheila Crockett moves in with her 15-year old son, Will, and her new husband, they believe they have found the perfect house. They quickly repair ruined walls and doors, and sand... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Letters from Tully: A Woman's Life on the Dakota Frontier by Estella Bowen Culp
This triumphant memoir offers a rare female perspective on a fascinating piece of South Dakota's frontier history. Written by schoolteacher Estella (Tully) Bowen Culp between 1906 and 1923, this poetic collection of letters offers an insider's perspective on the day-to-day challenges of life as... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Great Pearl Heist: London's Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard's Hunt for the World...
London, 1913. An exquisite strand of pale pink pearls, worth more than the Hope Diamond, has been bought by a Hatton Garden broker, capturing the attention of both jewelers and thieves. In transit to London from Paris, the necklace vanishes without a trace. Joseph Grizzard, the "King of... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Silence of the Stones: Will the secrets in the stones destroy a young woman's wor...
Will the secrets written in the stones destroy Alana's world? Alana, daughter of dysfunctional parents, grabs the chance of a fresh start in a West Wales village after a disastrous relationship. Her arrival causes ripples and she is thrust into the middle of a conspiracy of silence over a... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Great Walk of China: Travels on Foot from Shanghai to Tibet by Graham Earnshaw
What kind of people would you meet if you decided to walk across the world's most populous country? The Great Walk of China is a journey into China's heartland, away from its surging coastal cities. Through surprisingly frank conversations with the people he meets along the way, the... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Not So Funny When It Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (Travelers' ...
Some of the best adventure stories come from misadventures - the pratfalls, faux pas, and cringing embarrassments that accompany life on the road. These tales share those moments when the best of plans fall by the wayside - replaced by the unforeseen, leavened by the saving grace of a sense of... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
A Hole in the Heart: A Novel by Christopher Marquis
"Midafternoon on a Tuesday, it occurred to Bean Jessup that she was forgetting her husband's face."So begins this smart and charmingly written debut novel about a young woman trying to start over amid the grandeur of the Alaskan landscape and the creaky confines of an isolated fishing village... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Lighthouse at the End of the World by Stephen Marlowe
Here is an extraordinary tour de force of narrative suspense, historical realism, and surreal enchantment, a novel that rivals its hero's greatest tales as, with phantasmagorical power, it spins its story on two separate but inexorably converging levels. On the one, we are in a superbly evoked... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff by Rosemary Mahoney
Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Darkness All Around by Doug Magee
Filled with ominous twists and turns, a new suspense novel by the author of Never Wave Goodbye has readers guessing from the first page in a story that shows how one woman?s refusal to accept lies as the truth takes her to the brink to save those she loves. Within a week, Risa?s alcoholic... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire by John N. Maclean
When, on the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded as taking place at South Canyon, it became the first of a series of seemingly small human errors that, three days later, led to the deaths of fourteen fire fighters, including... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Treasure Hunter: Diving for Gold on North America's Death Coast by Robert MacKinnon &...
For over four decades, world-renowned diver and treasure hunter Captain Robert MacKinnon has reclaimed sunken caches from the dangerous shallow waters along Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia?s Atlantic coast. Known as the Death Coast for its treacherous reefs and violent currents, the rocky bottom... more
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167
| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Wind in the Ash Tree: More Tales of My Small Country Living by Jeanine McMullen
"No faith. That's your trouble!," Mrs. P. coolly tells her daughter Jeanine McMullen. But Mrs. P herself has enough faith to inspire Jeanine to move mountains of muck and all the other intransigent obstacles that block her way towards the idyll she knows that country living should... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Man in the Box by Thomas Moran
To thirteen-year-old Niki Lukasser, World War II seemed very far away. Then a man appeared at the Lukassers' door. A man who had come to their small Austrian town years before. A doctor who had saved Niki's life. A Jew - now asking to be hidden . . . The Man in the Box is Thomas Moran's... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from the Land by David Mas Masumoto
It was when David Mas Masumoto's father had a stroke on the sprawling fields of their farm that the son looked with new eyes on the land where he and generations of his family have toiled for decades. Masumoto -- an organic farmer working the land in California's Central Valley -- farms stories... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Edward Trencom's Nose by Giles Milton
A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese
Situated on London's Foster Lane, there is a quintessentially Georgian, redbrick house with a green door bearing the sign Trencoms, 1662. It's the home of the Trencom family's cheese store, a generational establishment begun by... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
All Standing: The True Story of Hunger, Rebellion, and Survival Aboard the Jeanie Joh...
The dramatic true tale of a boy born at sea during the Irish Potato famine and the ?coffin ship? that saved him and thousands of others from one of the world?s greatest humanitarian crises.The nineteenth century Irish Potato Famine claimed the lives of more than 1,000,000 people. Many of these... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Ruin Falls: A Novel by Jenny Milchman
In a suspenseful follow-up to her critically acclaimed Cover of Snow, Jenny Milchman ratchets up the tension with this edge-of-your-seat story of a mother determined to find her missing children.
Liz Daniels has every reason to be happy about setting off on a rare family vacation, leaving... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History by Peter ...
On the eve of World War II, America's newest submarine plunged helplessly to the North Atlantic bottom during a test dive.Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. While their wives and girlfriends waited in nearly unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend on... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Kindness Diaries: One Man's Epic Quest to Ignite Goodwill and Transform Lives Aro...
The incredible journey of one man who sets out to circumnavigate the globe on a vintage motorbike fueled by kindness.
Follow the inspirational journey of a former stockbroker who leaves his unfulfilling desk job in search of a meaningful life. He sets out from Los Angeles on a vintage... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Stand Up That Mountain by Jay Erskine Leutze
A True Story of the Dog Town Hillbillies Who Shut Down an Enormous Mine in North Carolina
One day Jay Leutze got a call from a young woman, Ashley, and her Aunt Ollie. Ashley and Ollie said they had evidence that Clark Stone Company was violating the Mining Act of 1971 up on Belview Mountain,... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Storm Riders by Craig Lesley
Winner of the Oregon Book Awards H.L. Davis Prize for FictionStorm Riders examines the conflicted love of a single father struggling to raise his adopted Native American son, who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome. When a small girl mysteriously drowns near a student-housing complex, the boy... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Wildlife Wars: My Fight to Save Africa's Natural Treasures by Richard Leakey & Vi...
Known the world over for his work in early human origins, Richard Leakey was serving as director of Kenya's National Museums when in 1989 President Daniel arap Moi appointed him to run the country's Wildlife Conservation Department. The news stunned Leakey. He was suddenly in charge of an... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
The Sea Garden: A Novel by Deborah Lawrenson
Romance, suspense, and World War II mystery are woven together in three artfully linked novellas?rich in drama and steeped in atmosphere?from the critically acclaimed author of The Lantern.The Sea GardenOn the lush Mediterranean island of Porquerolles off the French coast, Ellie Brooke, an... more
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| Jeanne W. (Jeannewar) |
Pirate Hunters: The Search for the Lost Treasure Ship of a Great Buccaneer by Robert ...
A thrilling new true adventure of deep-sea diving and danger, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of the New York Times bestseller Shadow Divers
Two men?John Chatterton and John Mattera?are determined to find the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister, even though finding and... more
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Joelle's Secret (Wagon Wheel, Bk 3) by Gilbert Morris
Popular novelist Gilbert Morris finds fresh romantic, history-based inspiration in Joelle's Secret. This mid-1800s tale begins with seventeen-year-old Joelle Jones fending off unwelcome advances from her predatory stepfather just after her mother has died. When the man is declared... more
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Running Wild (Collector's Edition) by Michael Morpurgo
An epic and heart-rending jungle adventure from the bestselling author of Kaspar and Born to Run. For Will and his mother, going to Indonesia isn't just a holiday. It's an escape, a new start, a chance to put things behind them - things like the death of Will's father. And to begin with, it... more
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A Man for Temperance (Wagon Wheel, Bk 2) by Gilbert Morris
In 1850, Temperance Peabody, age 32, is a plain yet beautiful woman who has yet to know the thrill of romantic love. Raised in the Oregon territory where her parents established a strict religious colony, she was never allowed to have a suitor but now longs to have a family of her... more
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Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz
Zarqa Nawaz has always straddled two cultures. She's just as likely to be agonizing over which sparkly earrings will "pimp out" her hijab as to be flirting with the Walmart meat manager in a futile attempt to secure halal chicken the day before Eid. Little Mosque on the Prairie... more
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Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season by Peter Nich...
A maritime adventure set against a lush historical backdrop, this is the story of one fateful whaling season that illuminates the unprecedented rise and devastating fall of America's first oil industry.
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Two for the Summit: My Daughter, the Mountains, and Me by Geoffrey Norman
For his fiftieth birthday journalist Geoffrey Norman set a goal: to climb the 14,000 feet of the treacherous Grand Teton summit. As a man who always craved adventure, Norman was both delighted and terrified when his teenage daughter, Brooke, offered to join him. Rock climbing--perhaps more than... more
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High Tea in Mosul: The True Story of Two Englishwomen in War-torn Iraq by Lynne O'Don...
Two Englishwomen, married to Iraqi men they met in Britain and later accompanied back to the northern city of Mosul, tell their stories to a reporter in this unusual look at Westerners immersed in Middle Eastern culture and politics. Pauline Basheer, wife of an Iraqi heart surgeon and mother of... more
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In the Shadow of the Buddha: Secret Journeys, Sacred Histories, and Spiritual Discove...
Spiritual biography meets edge-of-your-seat undercover reporting: how an American Buddhist smuggled out hard evidence of abuse and torture in Tibet. For nearly a decade, Matteo Pistono smuggled out of Tibet evidence of atrocities by the Chinese government, showing it to the U.S. government,... more
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The Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness by Doug Peacock
For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His thrilling narrative takes us into the bear's habitat, where we observe directly this majestic animal's behavior, from hunting strategies,... more
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Woodsburner by John Pipkin
Woodsburner springs from a little-known event in the life of one of America's most iconic figures, Henry David Thoreau. On April 30, 1844, a year before he built his cabin on Walden Pond, Thoreau accidentally started a forest fire that destroyed three hundred acres of the Concord woods -- an... more
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Sightings : The Gray Whales' Mysterious Journey (Adventure Press) by Brenda Peterson ...
For 50 million years, the gray whale—the most ancient of all great whales—has evolved along the western shores of North America. Its 10,000-mile migration from its summer feeding grounds in the Bering Sea to its winter birthing lagoons in Baja, Mexico, represents a timeless... more
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Fried Twinkies, Buckle Bunnies, Bull Riders : A Year Inside the Professional Bull Ri...
An intimate look at a fascinating subculture, its star personalities, and the death-defying confrontation between man and beast that has made bull riding the fastest growing sport in the world.Just as spectators flock to a NASCAR race because of its inherent danger, bull riding possesses a... more
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The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of F...
Henry VIII's sisters, neglected by generations of historians, impacted the lives and perceptions of their contemporaries much more forcefully than did any of their brother's famous six wives. In The Sisters of Henry VIII, Maria Perry examines the lives of these extraordinary women and analyzes... more
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Where Bears Roam The Streets by Jeff Parker
?Parker?s exquisitely titled book is as off-kilter as a Kurt Vonnegut novel, and wholly absorbing.? ?Maclean?sJeff Parker went to Russia intending to write a book about the country?s resurgence as a major global superpower under President Vladimir Putin and about the emergence, for perhaps the... more
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Blue Clay People : Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge by William Powers
An elegantly written memoir of a young man's life-changing sojourn in a world of immeasurable poverty and instability: Charles Taylor's Liberia.William Powers went to Liberia as a fresh-faced aid worker in 1999 and was given the mandate to "fight poverty and save the rainforest." It's not long... more
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Storm Chasers: A Novel by Paul Quarrington
Few people seek out the tiny Caribbean island of Dampier Cay—visitors usually wash up there by accident. But this weekend, three people are flying to the island, not for a tan or fun in the sun, but because they have reason to believe that they might encounter something there that most... more
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The Magnificent Mountain Women: Adventures in the Colorado Rockies by Janet Robertson
Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid–nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. Janet Robertson recounts... more
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Moriarty Returns a Letter (Baker Street Letters, Bk 4) by Michael Robertson
Michael Robertson has delighted mystery readers and Sherlock Holmes aficionados everywhere with his charming and innovative Baker Street mystery series, where brothers Reggie and Nigel Heath are charged with answering letters to Holmes that arrive at their law office, located at 221B Baker... more
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Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World by David R...
When David Roberts came across a reference to four Russian sailors who had survived for six years on a barren Arctic island, he was incredulous. An expert on the literature of adventure, Roberts had never heard the story and doubted its veracity. His quest to find the true story turned into a... more
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The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
One of the most fascinating, unreliable narrators you'll read this year, for fans of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Rules of Civility.It is 1923. Rose Baker is a typist in the New York City Police Department on the lower east side. Confessions are her job. The criminals admit to their crimes,... more
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Cordelia Underwood : Or, The Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League (Moosepath ...
Redolent of the knockabout high jinks of Tom Jones and The Pickwick Papers, Cordelia Underwood, set in 1896 during an idyllic summer on the coast of Maine, has a Yankee charm all its own.
In the sea chest of her late uncle, the lovely redhead Cordelia Underwood finds the deed to a parcel of... more
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Arctic Circle: Birth and Rebirth in the Land of the Caribou by Robert Leonard Reid
Every year without fail in early April, caribou from the Yukon and Alaska make a journey to a small corner of Alaska to give birth to their young. The journey an ordeal of mountains and blizzards, of ravenous wolves, scant forage, and river crossings with ice chunks the size of pickup trucks is... more
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Max by Sarah Cohen-Scali
Nazi Germany. 1936.
“I should have been born yesterday, but that’s not what I wanted. The date didn’t suit me. So I’ve stayed put. Motionless. Rigid. Of course that means a lot of pain for my mother, but she’s a brave woman, and she’s putting up with the... more
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The Last Panda by George B. Schaller
Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo, hunted mercilessly for its pelt, and hostage to profiteering schemes once in captivity, the panda is on the brink of extinction. Here, acclaimed naturalist George Schaller uses his great evocative powers, and the insight gained by four and a half years... more
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The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World by Carl Safina
An exhilarating journey of natural renewal through a year with MacArthur fellow Carl SafinaBeginning in his kayak in his home waters of eastern Long Island, Carl Safina's The View from Lazy Point takes us through the four seasons to the four points of the compass, from the high Arctic south to... more
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The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
On the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architectural jewel of “the Gardens,” a cloistered community in New York’s Greenwich Village. The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble, and the residents... more
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Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love by Wendy Rude...
In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's Savage City comes Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran... more
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A Buffalo in the House: The True Story About a Man, an Animal, and the American West ...
Marley and Me meets All Creatures Great and Small, as an ailing but lovable orphan buffalo joins a Santa Fe household.A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a... more
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The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice -- and indeed, the laws of physics -- they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill... more
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1185 Park Avenue by Anne Roiphe
In this captivating memoir, novelist Anne Roiphe shows us what it was really like to grow up rich and Jewish in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. Revisiting the world of her childhood, Roiphe brings alive a cast of characters who are both difficult to love and impossible to forget. Through the... more
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The Execution of Noa P. Singleton: A Novel by Elizabeth L. Silver
A beguiling debut novel about the stories we tell ourselves to survive, the scars that never fade and the things we choose to call the truth.
Noa P. Singleton speaks not a word in her own defense throughout a brief trial that ends with a jury finding her guilty of first-degree murder. Ten... more
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Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town by Susan Hand Shetterly
Whether we live in cities, suburbs, or villages, we are encroaching on nature, and it in one way or another perseveres. Naturalist Susan Shetterly looks at how animals, humans, and plants share the land?observing her own neighborhood in rural Maine. She tells tales of the locals (humans, yes,... more
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Sudden Sea : The Great Hurricane of 1938 by R.A. Scotti
It was the Perfect Storm. But instead of raging far out in the Atlantic, the Great Hurricane of 1938 left a wake of death and destruction across seven states. It battered J. P. Morgan's Long Island estate, wiped out beach communities from Watch Hill to Newport, flooded the Connecticut Valley,... more
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A Handmade Wilderness by Don Schueler
In 1968 two gay young men - one white, one black - quixotically decided to buy eighty backwoods acres in southern Mississippi, little realizing that they were embarking on the greatest adventure of their lives. Don Schueler's account of the twenty-five years that followed, during which he and... more
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The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship, Tragedy, and Survival in the Alaskan Wilde...
With a body twisted by adolescent scoliosis and memories of the brutal death of a woman he loved, Lynn Schooler kept the world at arm's length, drifting through the wilds of Alaska as a commercial fisherman, outdoorsman, and wilderness guide. In 1990 Schooler met Japanese photographer Michio... more
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The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found by Don J. Snyder
Five years ago, Don Snyder was teaching English at Colgate University. He was forty years old and had a wife, three children, a new baby on the way, and what seemed like a secure middle-class future. But then Snyder lost his chance at tenure -- and, all of a sudden, he was out of a job.
The... more
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To the Moon and Timbuktu: A Trek through the Heart of Africa by Nina Sovich
This lyrical memoir transports readers to the harsh yet breathtaking landscapes of West Africa, revealing that it is the journey, not the destination, that is the reward. Nina Sovich had never been good at staying put. At 34 she found herself staring out the window at the dreary Paris rain... more
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Our Family Dreams: The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America by Daniel ...
In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream.In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the... more
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Still Life with Elephant: A Novel by Judy Reene Singer
Can a badly abused elephant halfway across the world help a woman win back her cheating husband? In this funny, heartwarming story, the author of the beloved novel Horseplay presents another smart, memorable heroine and the animals—and men—she loves.Neelie Sterling never did listen... more
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The Eight: A Season in the Tradition of Harvard Crew by Susan Saint Sing
A fascinating look at the 2008 Harvard Varsity Crew Team and the university?s legendary history of accomplished rowers The Eight is a thrilling, behind-the-scenes look at a group of young men who have given up nearly everything to transform themselves into the best team possible at arguably the... more
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A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France by Georgeann...
From the publisher of Under the Tuscan Sun comes another extraordinary memoir of a woman embarking on a new life this time in the South of France. Thirty years ago, James Beard Award-winning author Georgeanne Brennan set out to realize the dream of a peaceful, rural existence en Provence. She... more
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A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue by John Aldridge & Anthony Sos...
In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was thrown off the back of the Anna Mary while his fishing partner, Anthony Sosinski, slept below. Their memoir, A Speck in the Sea intertwines Aldridge's wrenching first-person account with the narrative of the massive, constantly evolving... more
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Portable Prairie : Confessions of an Unsettled Midwesterner by M. J. Andersen
In a moving and bittersweet story, M.J. Andersen chronicles her childhood and adolescence in South Dakota, her departure to forge her own life, and her persistent longing for the landscape she left behind. Her hometown, given the fictional name of Plainville, is so quiet that one local family... more
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The World is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village by Anna Badkhen
An unforgettable portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, and war.
In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can?t find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand.... more
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Claiming Ground by Laura Bell
In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a man’s world, she is... more
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The Hiding Place by David Bell
Sometimes it's easier to believe a lie.
Twenty-five-years ago, the disappearance of four-year-old Justin Manning rocked the small town of Dove Point, Ohio. After his body was found in a shallow grave in the woods two months later, the repercussions were felt for years....
Janet... more
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Summers with the Bears : Six Seasons in the North Woods by Jack Becklund
In 1988, Jack Becklund and his wife, Patti, packed up their Florida home for life in the woods near Grand Marais, Minnesota. They soon made the unexpected acquaintance of an orphaned yearling black bear cub, whom they named Little Bit. Over the next six summers, the Becklunds spent countless... more
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Later, at the Bar: A Novel in Stories by Rebecca Barry
Lucy's Tavern is the best kind of small-town bar. It has a good jukebox, a bartender with a generous pour, and it's always open, even in terrible weather. In the raw and beautiful country that makes up Rebecca Barry's fictional landscape, Lucy's is where everyone ends up, whether... more
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Idyll Banter : Weekly Excursions to a Very Small Town by Chris Bohjalian
In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where... more
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Bleeding Orange: Fifty Years of Blind Referees, Screaming Fans, Beasts of the East, a...
In this candid autobiography, Syracuse head coach and long time college basketball fixture Jim Boeheim reflects on his life, his teachers, and the game he loves
Jim Boeheim walked onto the Syracuse campus as a freshman in 1963 . . . and never walked off. A man who has been written off at... more
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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill : A Love Story . . .with Wings by Mark Bittner
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is the inspiring story of how one man found his life’s work—and true love—among a gang of wild parrots roosting in one of America’s most picturesque urban settings. Mark Bittner was down on his luck. He’d gone to San Francisco at... more
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Rough Road to the North: Travels Along the Alaska Highway by Jim Christy
Alaska: the last great North American wilderness, a land mass approximately the size of England, France, Germany and Spain combined, a repository of natural resources and pioneer romance, the home of giant grizzly bears and the last of the mountain men....A lively, readable mix of past and... more
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The Curse of the Labrador Duck: My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction by Glen ...
In an obsessive 82,000-mile quest for dead birds, how much trouble can one scientist get into?Finally, the world's leading authority on the extinct Labrador Duck, Dr. Glen Chilton, shares the story of his frenzied obsession to reveal the histories behind the mysterious bird -- a saga wherein he... more
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I'll Know It When I See It: A Daughter's Search for Home in Ireland by Alice Carey
As a young girl, Alice Carey realized that “home” can mean different things. The only child of poor Irish immigrants, her isolated childhood in a cold-water flat in Queens is transformed when her mother becomes the maid to legendary Broadway producer Jean Dalrymple. In Miss... more
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A Whale Hunt by Robert Sullivan
A gloriously idiosyncratic fusion of travelogue, ecology, history, moral controversy, and high-seas adventure from the acclaimed author of The Meadowlands. In the fall of 1997, Robert Sullivan arrived in Neah Bay, a tiny town on the most northwestern tip of America, home to the Makah, a Native... more
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Rat Island: Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue by William...
Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the... more
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Jungleland: A True Story of Adventure, Obsession, and the Deadly Search for the Lost ...
Deep inside “the little Amazon,” the jungles of Honduras’s Mosquito Coast—one of the largest, wildest, and most impenetrable stretches of tropical land in the world—lies the fabled city of Ciudad Blanca: the White City. For centuries, it has lured explorers,... more
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Part Wild: One Woman's Journey with a Creature Caught Between the Worlds of Wolves an...
Part Wild is the story of a woman and her wolf, or more specifically, a canine estimated to be 12.5% Siberian husky and 87.5% gray wolf: a high purity and bona fide wolfdog named Inyo. In and out of abusive relationships with damaged men, Ceiridwen Terrill is drawn to Inyo as a source of... more
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On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon by Alan Tennant
In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant, a passionate observer of nature, recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon— -- an investigation no one before him had ever taken to such lengths.
On the Wing transports us from the... more
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The Marrowbone Marble Company by Glenn Taylor
From the author of The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award, comes this sweeping novel of love and war, power and oppression, faith and deception, over the course of three defining american decades.
1941. Loyal Ledford works the swing... more
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The Desert Pilgrim : En Route to Mysticism and Miracles by Mary Swander
Mary Swander was a lapsed Catholic content with the solitude and tenuous spirituality of a life tied to the Iowa prairie and its seasons. But when a car accident left her paralyzed and in chronic pain with no medical cure in sight, she was forced to look inside herself for strength and for... more
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective ...
The dramatic story of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically... more
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Arctic Obsession: The Lure of the Far North by Alexis S. Troubetzkoy
More than an account of the human delusion and fortitude in penetrating one of the most inhospitable areas of the world, Arctic Obsession goes beyond the gripping history of northern exploration, of the searches for the Northwest and Northeast Passages. From early medieval times to the... more
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Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story Of Heroism And Tragedy Aboard The Can Do by Mich...
In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immediately dispatched a patrol boat. Within an hour, the Coast Guard boat was in as much trouble as the tanker, having... more
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The Pig and I by Rachel Toor
For every woman who's ever come home after a disastrous date or day at the office to the unconditional love and comfort of a pet, this funny, irreverent memoir poses (and answers) the eternal question: Why is it so easy to love an animal and so hard to live with a man? The Pig and I follows the... more
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My Adventures with Your Money: George Graham Rice and the Golden Age of the Con Artis...
Master swindler George Graham Rice operated at the zenith of America's golden age of con artistry with plenty of illicit competition, but he stood apart from all others thanks to the sheer audacity, pure nerve and nefarious brilliance of his scams. Against the dark rise of American greed in... more
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Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History by ...
Soon after 2:00 A.M. on Easter morning, March 23, 2008, the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger began taking on water in the middle of the frigid Bering Sea. While the first mate broadcast Mayday calls to a remote Coast Guard station more than eight hundred miles away, the men on the ship's icy... more
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The Zoo on the Road to Nablus: A Story of Survival from the West Bank by Amelia Thoma...
In a unique zoo in one of the world's most turbulent regions, one man wages a strange and heroic battle for its animals' survival. The last Palestinian zoo stands on a dusty, deadend street in the once prosperous farming town of Qalqilya, on the very edge of the West Bank. The zoo's bars are... more
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The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and Other Stories by Paul Theroux
"This is my only story. Now that I am sixty I can tell it." He, the narrator, was a twenty-one-year-old art student traveling the world. She was a countess -- apparently cold, haughty, and inaccessible -- traveling with Haroun, her ambiguous companion. When the young man makes their acquaintance... more
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The Elephanta Suite: Three Novellas by Paul Theroux
A master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India This startling and satisfying book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today’s India. Theroux’s characters risk venturing far beyond... more
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