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Doctor Pascal is the twentieth and final novel of the Rougon-Macquart series by ﾉmile Zola. This volume serves in many respects as an epilogue to the series -- but it's also a fine tale in its own right. Doctor Pascal, approaching old age, looks...

A powerful and gripping allegory of an ordinary man trying to survive in the oppressive Chinese communist regime of the 1970s.Author: Ruyan MengISBN-10: 1597098760ISBN-13: 9781597098762Publisher: Red Hen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2022Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.50dReview Citation(s): Shelf Awareness 08/05/2022

As a small child, Josiah believed that his father's absence could be explained by the simple fact that he was a high ranking alien official on the planet Parnuckle. It explained so much else, too, like why Josiah should eat nothing but chocolate (Parnucklians...

A story of hope, love and purpose for anyone who has ever loved a rescue dog. With wry wit, deep insight, and vivid anecdotes, Tim McHugh gives voice to the family pet and delves into the place where the canine and human hearts become...

Jennifer Andersen had a lot of reasons to leave Delicious, not the least of which was her attempt to drown her former sweetheart's father--the town preacher--in the baptismal font. Away from the poisonous fruits of her birthplace, Jennifer finds peace, a good woman and,...

A family saga set during the American Revolution, traces the path of the powerful Hessian family, the Haynows, as they navigate a tumultuous path from Europe to America.Author: Sandra ParettiISBN-10: 1590774582ISBN-13: 9781590774588Publisher: M. Evans and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/18/2014Pages: 444Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w...

A scandalous, gossipy, breezy satire, Cable Harbor follows the summer antics of the vacationers and townies in a small Maine resort town--rife with betrayal, young love, and small town drama.Author: Donald BowieISBN-10: 1590772997ISBN-13: 9781590772997Publisher: M. Evans and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2014Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.10h...

Author: Christie WatsonISBN-10: 1590514661ISBN-13: 9781590514665Publisher: Other Press (NY)Language: EnglishPublished: 05/10/2011Pages: 448Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.40dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.2Point Value: 16Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 150727 / Tiny Sunbirds, Far AwayAward: Costa Book Awards - WinnerReview Citation(s): Booklist 04/01/2011 pg. 29Publishers Weekly...

A half-naked Viking, with horned Brunhilda-helmet, sword and shield, is the last thing Delaney Kullerton expects to find on her doorstep. Introducing himself in broken English, he claims he's Varik the Bold and he's come to play. Stunned to hear the name of her...

Three Continents is a tale of the clash between the easternized West and the westernized East. Twins Harriet and Michael-spoiled, quixotic, and extremely wealthy-have eschewed the vapid world of cocktail parties and adulteries that seems to be their inheritance. In constantly searching to complete...

A great idea is always worth repeating In one volume, Christian readers' favorite fiction authors-including Randy Alcorn, Terri Blackstock, Angela Elwell Hunt, Melody Carlson, Nancy Moser, and Karen Kingsbury-offer delightful new short stories about hometown faith and foibles. This hard-to-put-down book, which features story...

"Honest to God" is about a successful small-town middle-aged insurance salesman and family man named Daniel Adams (Burke Sage), who lives in the quaint town of Bethany, IL with his wife Becca (Polly Cassiday Doyle) and his two fully grown children, Dylan (Tyler Burke)...

A spaceship hurtles towards the moon, hippies gather at Woodstock, Charles Manson leads a cult into murder and a Kennedy drives off a Chappaquiddick dock: it's the summer of 1969. And as mankind takes its giant leap, Jordan May March, disabled bastard and genius,...

Set in the British Columbia Interior, the novel Cambium Blue is an homage to resource towns, independent women and local newspapers. In 1994, at the outset of the bark beetle epidemic that will decimate millions of acres of pine forest in western North America,...

A sweeping multigenerational Southern saga with echoes of Gone with the Wind. (Publishers Weekly)Spanning the 20th century, the story of Roses takes place in a small East Texas town against the backdrop of the powerful timber and cotton industries, industries controlled by the scions...

Raging War Between Love tells the story of love, power, hate, and an intervention that could be fatal. Margaret has taken it upon herself to be the fighting force for the people. Her people. Margaret has a mission. It is to help her community,...

Amber was the neighborhood helper. She cared about people and her neighbors loved her. Amber biggest problem was Derrick and he did not know it yet. Amber ran from one good deed to another.It was the good deed that put her face to face...

Lia, Lia, Lia She could still hear the chants from the thousands who'd come tonight to see her perform, as Jaycee Williams, her security escort, walked with her back to the dressing room. Emilia Hanson had come a long way as a child living...

"Secrets of the Heart" is a novel which was birthed from Psalm 44:20,21... "If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; Shall not God search this out? For He knoweth the secrets of the...

Thirty-something Parisian artist Billie is working towards her next exhibition when she receives the news that her mother, with whom she has had no contact for years, has drowned in the river near her nursing home. In an attempt to understand the circumstances of...

Margaret is a successful judge, and her family seems perfect. She loves her daughter Sheila and would give the world for her. But when Sheila decides to commit suicide rather than face the wrath of her parents (especially her mother) who claims to love...

Alex Blair was a famous violinist in some of the greatest concert halls in the united States and Canada. Suddenly he removed himself from that life and lived almost as a recluse in the rural district of Guysborough County in Nova Scotia. He placed...

A storm rages through Philadelphia causing a city-wide power outage. Three strangers are thrust into an arduous and unexpected situation when they are suddenly trapped together in a high-rise elevator. With little food or water, their desperation increases by the hour as they pray...

"Wedding Anniversary is a play 70 percent of women and girls worldwide can relate with. It is an interesting story of love and hate that cuts across countries and cultures. The shocking intrigues women go through are illustrated in this play. It is bigger...

Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and accident-prone character of Charles Porter. Porter's diary chronicles his daily routine, which includes small parties, minor embarrassments, home improvements, and his relationship with a troublesome son. The small minded...

In the Jamaican vernacular a man wears a "jacket" if he has been given the paternity of a child that he has not fathered. A young police officer, his ex-girlfriend, and his current fianc e who is desperate for a child of her own,...

Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and must now reside with her maiden great aunts, the matriarchs of...

The breathtaking promise of the English countryside can lift even the heaviest spirits . . . Willow Armstrong, the once-famous "Queen of Weight Loss" and president of Pound Busters, succumbed to stress eating after her divorce. Now the scandal of getting caught on camera...

Bonnie begins her shift at the hospital, where she has worked for the last two years. She is in for the shock of her life when she walks into a patient's room and finds her father-- her father who supposedly died ten years earlier....

The Vision of a Mother's Heart is the story of Isabel Greene, an ordinary ten-year-old girl from an ordinary southern family that is living off the land in the 1920s. They are hardworking, God-honoring, fun-loving people who are considered poor by some but think...

It was always a matter of wonder to Vandover that he was able to recall so little of his past life. With the exception of the most recent events he could remember nothing connectedly. What he at first imagined to be the story of...

Mansfield Park is the most controversial of Austen's major novels. It was written between 1812 and 1814. A subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's most profound novels.Author: Jane AustenISBN-10: 1515184420ISBN-13: 9781515184423Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

Regarded as one of the author's finest and most ambitious works, Bleak House all but overflows with the imaginative inventiveness unique to Dickens as it holds the reader fast to his most involved and involving plot. First published in 1853, Bleak House is a...

Fruitfulness (1899) is a novel by French author ﾉmile Zola. Published as the first installment of his Les Quatre ﾉvangiles, a series of four novels inspired by the New Testament gospels and aimed at investigating prominent social issues, Fruitfulness was written while Zola was...

He awoke in the dark. His awakening was simple, easy, without movement save for the eyes that opened and made him aware of darkness. Unlike most, who must feel and grope and listen to, and contact with, the world about them, he knew himself...

Bleak House is a satirical look at the Byzantine legal system in London as it consumes the minds and talents of the greedy and nearly destroys the lives of innocents--a contemporary tale indeed. Dickens's tale takes us from the foggy dank streets of London...

Summer has arrived and the Cotteril children are looking forward to the Holiday. For Thea, Susan, Peter and Jane it's always a special time of year, as they escape their lives in the suburbs and visit the delights of the countryside with their mother...

When Richard Beaton inherits Chedsy Place, he feels nostalgic as he returns to his beloved family home. For him it is locked in the past - a place of warm childhood memories - and he cannot afford to keep it. But for his wife,...

"Caroline knows best." Caroline's mother ran away from her father when Caroline was four years old, and her father and stepmother died fifteen years later, leaving her with a young step-brother and two young step-sisters to bring up. Orphaned, and in the care of...

A couple sets off on their first long weekend together with romantic-or murderous-intentions. A recently divorced father attempts to jump-start his life by performing as John Lennon in a Beatles cover band. A young woman becomes obsessed with a sweepstakes contest in the wake...

Set in Rural Montana, LOOKOUT centers on the dual coming-of-age of a girl and her father amid the natural and cultural forces that shape their family. LOOKOUT tells the story of the Kinzlers, a complex working-class family firmly rooted in northwestern Montana. Josiah and...

Arturo DiMartino's Italy is in ruins at the end of WWI. Its politics splintered. Its economy tattered. Its social fabric shredded.Italians blame their weak leaders and demand their overthrow. Mussolini steps onto the political stage and his populist views and spirited charisma captivate the...

A perceptive, moving novel about life and death in the Basque Country, from the author of Nevada Days. Bernardo Atxaga's Water over Stones follows a group of interconnected people in a small village in the Basque Country. It opens with the story of a...

Everyone eats but how, when and where we eat makes a difference; thus a moonlight picnic is a heck of a lot more fun than a formal dinner with people who mean nothing to you. Or a cherished seasonal food eaten in the long...

Lifestyle journalist Ella Skye remembers every celebrity she interviewed, every politician she charmed between the sheets, and every socialite who eyed her with envy. The chance meeting with her husband, Damien; their rapid free fall into love; and their low-key, intimate wedding are all...

Meet Anna Hudson in this passionate story of love, confusion, and life in this woman's romantic journey to find herself. Anna realizes that she will never be able to ignore the wonders and carry on like the rest of the world seems to. Enjoy...

Redemption is the story of a man named John Jacobi, who readers first meet as he enjoys the simple pleasures of life as an elderly retired resident of Charleston, South Carolina. The highlight of John's daily routine is his morning visit to his favorite...

It was while she was growing up in an old farmhouse in Iowa, Mel become aware that her family was unlike others she knew. Her father was distant and ended up moving away. Her mother didn't trust her, and it became obvious that she...

Bestselling author Jim Stovall's latest offering and first title of his Homecoming Historical Series, One Season of Hope, is a rare combination of tear-jerking emotion, powerful wisdom, and inspiring hope. Written in Stovall's signature easy and economical style, the story is told through the...

Family ties are strong, but even the strongest can be broken.Building on the story of faith and family, the Grandma, Mom, and Me Saga continues with Elaina, a story of devastating loss, constant lies, overwhelming betrayal, restorative love, and undiminished compassion.Elaina Drew is the...