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21) Far cry
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Ruth and Simon reluctantly agree to let their teenage daughter, Heather, go on a camping holiday in Cornwall with her best friend, Kelly, and her family. Then they get the news that both girls have gone missing. Kelly is found alive, but Heather's body is eventually found in an old mine, her death ruled an accident. The tragedy ends Ruth and Simon's marriage. Ruth remarries and has another daughter, but when Beatrice reaches Heather's age, she too...
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"Sam Brandis was Tate Jones's first: Her first love. Her first everything. Including her first heartbreak. During a whirlwind two-week vacation abroad, Sam and Tate fell for each other in only the way that first loves do: sharing all of their hopes, dreams, and deepest secrets along the way. Sam was the first, and only, person that Tate--the long-lost daughter of one of the world's biggest film stars--ever revealed her identity to. So when it became...
23) The blackhouse
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When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis with the hallmarks of a killing he's investigating on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin MacLeod is dispatched to see if the two deaths are connected. His return after nearly two decades not only represents a police investigation, but a voyage into his troubled past. Every step in solving the murder takes him closer to a dangerous confrontation with the tragic events that shaped...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Toby, the "remarkable sapient pig, " attained his celebrity in late-eighteenth-century England. After winning the blue ribbon at the Salford Livestock Fair and escaping the butcher's knife with the help of his young friend Sam, Toby tours the country wowing circus audiences with his abilities to count, spell, and even read minds. Eager to step out of the spotlight, Toby begins studies at the university before finally settling down to tell his own...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Alexander Popper is four years old when his father throws him into Lake Michigan and tells him to sink or swim. The rest of the family also struggles to remain afloat while his father, a lawyer obsessed with his own success, fails to see that his family is falling apart. Covering four decades of Alexander's life, Peter Orner illuminates the many ways that love makes us whole and unravels us.
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Thorndike Press
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2012
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English
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Deep in the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources sits a nondescript bureaucrat named Konstantin Malin. From his shabby office Malin controls half the nation's oil industry, making him one of the most feared and wealthy men in Russia. His public face is Richard Lock, a diffident English lawyer bound to Malin by marriage, complacency, greed, and by a complex lie that neither can escape. But the lie cannot hold forever, and someone has hired Benjamin...
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Thorndike Press
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2013.
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English
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A stunningly original book that follows the lives of four young professional women in contemporary China - Tiao, a children's book editor, her sister Fan, who thinks escaping to America might solve her problems, hedonistic and self-destructive Fei, and Youyou, a chef - from childhood during the Cultural Revolution to adulthood in the new market economy.
29) The golden mean
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Gale Cengage Learning/Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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342 BC: Aristotle is reluctant to set aside his own ambitions in order to tutor Alexander, the rebellious son of his boyhood friend Philip of Macedon. But the philosopher soon comes to realize that teaching this charming, surprising, sometimes horrifying teenager - heir to the Macedonian throne, forced onto the battlefield before his time - is a necessity amid the ever more sinister intrigues of Philip's court. Ancient Greece comes to vivid life via...
30) Drifting house
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Thorndike Press
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2012
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English
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Spanning Korea and the United States from the postwar era to today, Krys Lee illuminates a people torn between the traumas of their collective past and the indignities and sorrows of their present. This stunning debut collection includes tales of children escaping famine in North Korea who must make unthinkable sacrifices to survive, and immigrants to America living an unmoored existence in cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls; and a makeshift...
31) Ancient light
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Thorndike Press
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2013.
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English
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An actor in the twilight of his career reflects on a poignant first love affair at the age of fifteen with his best friend's mother and inexplicably lands a role opposite a famous but fragile actress who helps him come to an astonishing realization.
33) B-mother
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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A birthmother copes with her decision to give her son up for adoption.
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Winternight trilogy volume 3
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Now, in the conclusion to this powerful trilogy, Moscow has been struck by disaster. Its people are searching for answers--and someone to blame. Vasya finds herself alone, beset on all sides. The Grand Prince is in a rage, choosing allies that will lead him on a path to war and ruin. A wicked demon returns, stronger than ever, determined to spread chaos. Caught at the center of this conflict is Vasya, who finds the fate of both worlds resting on...