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1) In November
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Describes the autumn activities and traditions that November's cooling temperatures bring.
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"The New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me share the stories behind the five infamous, tragic days surrounding JFK's assassination--alongside revealing and iconic photographs--published in remembrance of the beloved president on the fiftieth anniversary of his death.Clint Hill will forever be remembered as the lone secret service agent who jumped onto the car after President Kennedy was shot, clinging to its sides as it sped toward...
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"Published when Josephine Johnson was only twenty-four years old, Now in November made Johnson the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1935. It is a beautifully told account of one farming family's challenges to scrape by and earn a living from mortgaged land over the course of a single year, narrated by one of three sisters-the introspective and thoughtful Margaret. As the household is ravaged by Depression-era hardship and the environmental...
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Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) depicts a white, middle-class urban family that is turned into dirt-poor farmers by the Depression and the great drought of the thirties. The novel moves through a single year and, at the same time, a decade of years, from the spring arrival of the family at their mortgaged farm to the winter 10 years later, when the ravages of drought, fire, and personal anguish
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A novel of love, friendship, and self-reinvention: "I can't remember the last time I was so enchanted... zany, surprising, full of twists and turns" (Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and Something Blue).
A translator of Icelandic, the unnamed young woman who narrates Butterflies in November is perhaps more at home in the world of language than the actual world. After a day of being dumped-twice-and accidentally killing a goose, she yearns...
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I loved this book. I could relate to everything that Leo endured. The pain, the joy, and putting your life on edge for that chance to find true love. A great read, despite the tears streaming down my face. Michele Russell, 5*
'Romantic, funny, confronting. An addictive story to the end.' Shannon M Marshall, Your Editing Stylists, 5*
'Leo's heart rolls from one potential car wreck to another. You want to close your eyes, but you just keep reading.'...
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An affectionate and funny story set in the "black quarter" of a Southern sugar cane plantation in the 1940's and told by a child named Eddie, who watches his mother leave his father over his preoccupation with his car, which his father ultimately burns to the ground on the advice of a voodoo woman to get his wife back.
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Living in a Dallas boardinghouse, separated from his wife, Marina, and their two children, Lee Harvey Oswald feels completely powerless and desperate. But on November 19, 1963, he sees two articles in the Dallas Times Herald; one on the front page in which President Kennedy calls for the overthrow of Castro in Cuba, and the other announcing the presidents visit to Dallas this coming Friday. This, Oswald believes, is the opportunity for which he has...
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Two plays by award-winning playwright Marie Jones: the smash hit Stones in His Pockets, which ran for four years in London's West End; and an earlier monologue, A Night in November, exploring the subjects of football and sectarianism, set during the 1994 World Cup. A two-man show about the filming of a Hollywood epic in rural Ireland, Stones in His Pockets features a pair of film extras, Charlie and Jake, who tell the story by taking on all the roles...
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Weissensee Saga volume 1
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Martin finds a new lead in the search for his daughter and ventures west as the Berlin Wall falls.
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Running into Amber Neville after twenty years wasn't on Dr. Jackson Parker's list of things to do. Amber had been head girl to his head boy, and from what he remembers, she was British, stuck up and bossy...But the red-haired beauty she's grown into leaves him stunned.Newly returned from a job in Canada, Amber remembers Jackson as a brash and rude American--not at all the even-tempered, handsome doctor he's turned out to be. But she can't get involved,...
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#1 The day we left for Texas began like every other presidential trip. People were hustling to get last-minute changes to speeches typed. The president and first lady's schedules were planned to the minute. The trip was important politically, but Mrs. Kennedy was also eager to make a good impression.
#2 The buzzer system sounded three times, indicating the president...
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In November, 1950, the United States Army suffered one of its most devastating defeats ever, in the frozen mountains of North Korea at the hands of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. This defeat fundamentally changed the nature of the Korean War, from a near-certain United Nations victory into a fight for its very survival. It was, however, avoidable. This Chinese victory was partially the result of one of the most glaring failures in U.S. military...
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Moomin books volume 9
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Winter's approach brings six friends together in Moominvalley where, in the Moomins' absence, they must visit with each other.
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas forty years ago will always remain indelible in the minds of those old enough to recall it. The youngest elected leader in American history, a charming man leading what seemed a charmed life, by general consensus a president whose administration, having survived its early crises, was now at last hitting its stride, was shot and killed by a sniper firing a mail-order rifle from the southeast corner of...
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"Ryan Wilkins grew up on a trailer park, a member of what many people would call the criminal classes. As a young Detective Inspector, he's lost none of his disgust with privileged elites - or his objectionable manners. But he notices things; they stick to his eyes. His professional partner, DI Ray Wilkins, of affluent Nigerian-London heritage, is a smooth-talking graduate of Balliol College, Oxford. You wouldn't think they would get on. They don't....
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