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To Siberia
Per Petterson
Paperback (Wheeler Pub Inc, Jan. 21, 2009)I was fourteen and a half when the Germans came. On that 9th April we woke to the roar of aeroplanes swooping so low over the roofs of the town that we could see the black iron crosses painted on the underside of their wings when we leaned out of the windows and looked up. In this exquisite novel, readers will find the crystalline prose and depth of feeling they adored in Out Stealing Horses, a literary sensation of 2007. A brother and sister are forced ever more closely together after the suicide of their grandfather. Their parents’ neglect leaves them wandering the streets of their small Danish village. The sister dreams of escaping to Siberia, but it seems increasingly distant as she helplessly watches her brother become more and more involved in resisting the Nazis.
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Hide and Seek
Ian Rankin
Paperback (Wheeler Pub Inc, July 18, 2007)None
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Forced Out
Stephen Frey
Hardcover (Wheeler Pub Inc, Aug. 5, 2008)Spotting a remarkable minor-league ballplayer, unhappily retired Yankees scout Jack Barrett hopes to bring the young athlete into the big leagues, an effort that is challenged by the boy's bad attitude and a dangerous secret.
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The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
Timothy Keller
Hardcover (Wheeler Pub Inc, April 1, 2009)The End of Faith. The God Delusion. God Is Not Great. Letter to a Christian Nation. Bestseller lists are filled with doubters. But what happens when you actually doubt your doubts?
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1999)The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking.
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The Bourne Supremacy
Robert Ludlum
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Feb. 1, 1987)A Taiwanese conspiracy to draw mainland China and the West into a conflict brings a high-level State Department call for super-agent Jason Bourne, who, having retired, is drawn back into service by a brutal ploy--the kidnapping of his wife
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Sophie's Choice
William Styron
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1993)As the fierce lovemaking and fights of Nathan, a paranoiac Jewish intellectual, and Sophie, a Polish-Catholic concentration-camp survivor, intensify, Stingo, a writer who lives below them in a cheap rooming house, becomes more and more involved in their lives
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James Herriot's Dog Stories
James Herriot
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, June 1, 1987)Tells the story of fifty dogs and their unique relationships with their owners
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The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal
Lilian Jackson Braun
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1992)Qwilleran's prospects for quiet on his return to Pickax are thwarted by a noisy bird, his girl's wandering attention, and the murder accusation leveled against his friend
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Cat Who Went Underground
Lilian Jackson Braun
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, July 1, 1990)Jim Qwilleran and his cats vacation in Mooseville, but when the carpenter he hires disappears, Quilleran investigates what may be a serial killer's plan to wipe out the area's woodworkers
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Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward
Hardcover (Wheeler Publishing, April 6, 2012)Winner of the 2011 National Book Award -- A hurricane is threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much. Fourteen and pregnant, Esch can't keep down what food she gets. A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real.
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Alias Grace
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Hardcover (G K Hall & Co, Feb. 1, 1997)/ATWOOD MARGARET/ The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale takes readers back 150 years and inside the life and mind of one of the most notorious women of the 1840s--Grace Marks, serving a life sentence for the vicious murders of a wealthy landowner and his mistress. Into this rich work of the imagination, Atwood brings her brilliant insights into the relationships between men and women and between the society of the entitled and those without position.