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Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches.
Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on...
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This anniversary edition of the classic novel that won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction fatures a Foreword by Walker Percy that looks back on the history of this humorous story set in New Orleans about a slob named Ignatius Reilly and his relationship with his mother.
3) The giver
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Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
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The author who captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany expands her horizons to immerse herself--and her readers--in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. This book is a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. She rents houses among ordinary residents, shops at neighborhood markets, wanders...
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The crash of Flight 800 has been attributed to a mechanical malfunction. But John Corey and Kate Mayfield, both members of the Elite anti-terrorist Task Force, suspect a cover-up at the highest levels and set out to find the one piece of evidence that will prove the truth about what really happened.
12) Duma Key
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This is a novel about the tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural. Edgar Freemantle has taken up painting to help recover from an accident that cost him his right arm, and the order of his memory. Elizabeth Eastlake is a sick old woman. They meet on a Florida island where they discover that his paintings and her ghosts have devastating powers. [From publisher's description]
15) Death of a maid
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"Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth is charged with investigating the death of a maid struck down by a bucket of water"--Provided by the publisher.
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