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Absent in the SpringAuthor: Agatha Christie,Mary WestmacottPublisher: William Morrow & CompanyPublished: 07/22/2025Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.57dISBN: 9780063452671About the AuthorChristie, Agatha: - Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have...
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1812: The War That Forged a Nation"Without question this is the best popular account of the last war fought between the United States and Great Britain. . . . In a gripping narrative the author not only explains the importance of the War of 1812 but vividly recreates its exciting...
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A Dangerous PlaceFour years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . . In Jacqueline Winspear's powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder...
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall"Stasiland demonstrates that great, original reporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic." -- Claire Tomalin, Guardian "Books of the Year"Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: a powerfully moving account of people who heroically resisted the...
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Our Narrow Hiding PlacesAn elderly woman recounts her Dutch family's survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations. Eighty-year-old Mieke Geborn's life is one of quiet routine. Widowed for many years, she enjoys the view from...
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Precipice"Robert Harris is, simply put, masterful."--Karin SlaughterA spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the Great War from the bestselling author of Act of Oblivion, Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, and Conclave.Summer 1914. A world on the brink...
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Haggard House1859. The village of Nomaton, Michigan.After a reclusive childhood within the dank walls of Haggard House, Adam Bolton, at the age of eleven, is finally allowed to attend the village school, providing he obeys his mother, Sarai's, injunction. Against all outward influence, he must:...
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The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell HappenedOne of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United States...
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Old KingIn the summer of 1976, Duane Oshun finds himself stranded in a remote Montana town beset by a series of strange and menacing events. He takes a job as a logger and builds a cabin on an isolated road near a reclusive neighbor--a hermit...
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Ways of VirtueA dazzling literary romance about a young socialite and a smooth-talking pilot who take a chance on each other against the extreme odds orchestrated by their peers and mother nature. In 1950s New England, being a marriageable young lady means following a certain set...
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The Moscow Rules: The Secret CIA Tactics That Helped America Win the Cold WarA "devilishly fun" (New York Times Book Review) account of a deadly serious business: the undercover spies and the tactics they developed to survive the Cold War in Moscow, from legendary former-CIA operatives. Antonio and Jonna Mendez were CIA technical operations officers supporting espionage...
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The Heirloom GardenFrom the USA Today bestselling author of The Summer Cottage In her inimitable style, Viola Shipman explores the unlikely relationship between two very different women brought together by the pain of war, but bonded by hope, purpose...and flowers.Iris Maynard lost her husband in World...
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The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case InvestigationA New York Times BestsellerLess a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept...Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team--led by an obsessed retired FBI agent--has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who...
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The 42nd ParallelThe first in John Dos Passos's acclaimed USA trilogy--a "linguistically adventurous national portrait for a precarious age--his, and ours" (The New Yorker). John Dos Passos's USA trilogy (comprising The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money), named one of the best books of the...
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Polostan: Volume One of Bomb LightFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new series--an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.The first installment in Neal Stephenson's Bomb Light cycle,...
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Loving Sylvia Plath: A ReclamationSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination--the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne--a superfan and scholar--radically reimagines the last years of...
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Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World"Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America's pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race of unlikely heroes to bring the dream of world flight to the public imagination."--Wall...
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Daughters of Green Mountain GapWINNER of the 2024 Shelf Unbound Best Indie BookAn Appalachian granny woman. A daughter on a crusade. A granddaughter caught between the two.Maggie McCoury, a generational healer woman, relies on family traditions, folklore, and beliefs gleaned from a local Cherokee tribe. Her daughter, Carrie...
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Leaving Everything Most Loved: A Maisie Dobbs NovelFrom New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, now available in paperback--the tenth novel in the New York Times bestselling Maisie Dobbs series--"a series that seems to get better with each entry" (Wall Street Journal)--in which the death of an Indian immigrant leads Maisie...
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The Queen's Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, SusanFrom USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight comes an endearing and vivid novel told from the unique multi-narrative viewpoints of a young Queen Elizabeth; Hanna Penwyck, the fictionalized Keeper of the Queen's dogs; and Susan, the Queen's Corgi, whose love and loyalty were boundless.A...
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