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Last Child in the Woods
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged...
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The Nature Principle
For many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature. Richard Louv, author of...
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If the Shoe Fits, Go Barefoot
This book shows you how to magnify the light of your inner authority by helping you understand who you are. Knowing ourselves is the only path to reach our...
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Dead Man's Cove
Al, Sandra, and Quincy are invited to a secluded island for a weekend of fun. When one of their fellow revelers ends up dead, and a storm makes it impossible for...
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Downward-Facing Death
Blessed with uncanny deductive skills and a blasé disregard for authority, Matt Bolster was a rising LAPD homicide detective by the age of thirty-five. He was...
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With time running short, the lively and intrepid residents of the Sunset Village retirement community in Florida continue to thirst for life. But the true beating...
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Thirty-eight year old divorcee Grace Sorentino is in a precarious position, upwardly mobile in age, downwardly mobile inincome. A cosmetician on Palm Beach's...
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  American Quartet is this first book of Warren Adler's acclaimed mystery series: the Fiona FitzGerald mysteries. In American Quartet, four seemingly...
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The rights of grandparents to visit their beloved grandson pit them against their remarried daughter-in-law. When Charlie and Molly's son dies, their daughter-in-...
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In an ideal world, they would never have met. Vivien Simpson is a happy housewife with a young son who adores her successful lawyer husband. Edward Davis is an...
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The Commander's Desire
Travel on a journey of romance into medieval Scotland... Princess Elwytha wants revenge on the monster who murdered her brother. In a false exchange for peace, she...
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In 2000, the University of Southern California Trojans were named Collegiate Athletic Department of the 20th Century, Baseball Program of the Century, while coach...
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Editorial ReviewsFrom Library JournalHaving broken the single-season home-run record last year and gotten off to a charging start this season, Barry Bonds of the...
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From Publishers WeeklyIn December 1965, David Spears said good-bye to his wife and three children and went to fight in Vietnam; he returned "in a cargo plane...
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The biography of a 19th-century Mormon pioneer who became a celebrity after she was captured, raised, and tattooed on the face by Southwest Indians, then ransomed...
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The Witch From The Sea
A swashbuckler set in the West Indies of the early 19th Century THE WITCH FROM THE SEA is a love story, a coming-of-age adventure and an eccentric comedy of manners...
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This book is your traveling pleasure companion. I want to remind you to seek out pleasure and lightly scoop it up! It is also a guide to finding pleasure in all of...
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From the Onion AV Club review by Joshua Klein "It's clear from the elaborate pre-preface bibliographical information that this is no ordinary memoir. Rather, the (...
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Silent Talking
Freedom of speech is recognized by the International Human Rights Organization, meaning that it is our fundamental rights to express ourselves and it is also our...
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