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This richly imagined novel, set in Hawai'i more than a century ago, is an extraordinary epic of a little-known time and place---and a deeply moving testament to the resiliency of the human spirit.Rachel Kalama, a spirited seven-year-old Hawaiian girl, dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father, a merchant seaman. Then one day a rose-colored mark appears on her skin, and those dreams are stolen from her. Taken from her home and family, Rachel is sent to Kalaupapa, the quarantined leprosy settlement on the island of Moloka'i. Here her life is supposed to end---but instead she discovers... View more info

The Drowning Child

By: Alex Barclay

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Harper: 2016

Seller ID: 0135180

ISBN: 0007494599

Condition: Good

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Autobiography Of Malcolm X (Malcolm Little)

By: Alex Haley

Price: $12.99

Publisher: Grove Press: 1965

Seller ID: 0141632

Condition: Good

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Bertie Plays The Blues

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Vintage: 2011

Seller ID: 0142776

ISBN: 0307361942

Condition: Very good

Domestic bliss seems in short supply at 44 Scotland Street. Over at the Pollocks, dad, Stuart, is harbouring a secret about a secret society and Bertie is feeling kind of blue. Having had enough of his neurotic hot-housing mother, he puts himself up for adoption on eBay. Will he go to the highest bidder or will he have to take matters into his own hands? Will the lovelorn Big Lou find true love on the Internet? And will Angus Lordie and Domenica make it up the aisle? Catch up with all your favourite faces down in 44 Scotland Street as we follow their daily pursuit of a little happiness. View more info

Blackbird House

By: Alice Hoffman

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Ballantine Books: 2005

Seller ID: 0090822

ISBN: 0345455932

Condition: Good

With "incantatory prose" that "sweeps over the reader like a dream," ("Philadelphia Inquirer)," Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller "The Probable Future," with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years. In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod is a place that is as bewitching and alive as the characters we meet: Violet, a brilliant girl who is in love with books and with a man ... View more info

Skylight Confessions

By: Alice Hoffman

Price: $8.63

Publisher: Little Brown: 2008

Seller ID: 0142851

ISBN: 0316017876

Condition: Very good

Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love. Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticut countryside, to the avenues of Manhattan, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound. Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to solve the emotional... View more info

V For Vendetta

By: Allan Moore

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Vertigo: 2005

Seller ID: 0108708

ISBN: 140120841X

Condition: Good

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Rules Of Civility

By: Amor Towles

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Penguin: 2011

Seller ID: 0101605

ISBN: 0143121162

Condition: Good

"The New York Times" bestselling novel that "enchants on first reading and only improves on the second" ("The Philadelphia Inquirer")This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society--where... View more info

The Summer List

By: Amy Mason Doan

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Graydon House: 2018

Seller ID: 0134624

ISBN: 1525804251

Condition: Good

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The Bookshop Of Yesterdays

By: Amy Meyerson

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Park Row Books: 2018

Seller ID: 0135478

ISBN: 0778369137

Condition: Good

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Random Acts Of Kindness (Chicken Soup)

By: Amy Newmark

Price: $8.98

Publisher: CSS: 2017

Seller ID: 0135037

ISBN: 161159961X

Condition: Good

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The Hero's Walk

By: Anita Rau Badami

Price: $10.50

Publisher: Vintage Canada: 2001

Seller ID: 0014377

ISBN: 0676973604

Condition: Good

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The Good House

By: Ann Leary

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Picador: 2012

Seller ID: 0133004

ISBN: 1250043034

Condition: Very good

Hildy Good is a townie. A lifelong resident of a small community on the rocky coast of Boston's North Shore, she knows pretty much everything about everyone. And she's good at lots of things, too. A successful real-estate broker, mother, and grandmother, her days are full. But her nights have become lonely ever since her daughters, convinced their mother was drinking too much, sent her off to rehab. Now she's in recovery--more or less. Alone and feeling unjustly persecuted, Hildy finds a friend in Rebecca McAllister, one of the town's wealthy newcomers. Rebecca is grateful for the frien... View more info

The Boy Who Was Bullied

By: Anne Huestis Scott

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Glen Margaret Pub: 2011

Seller ID: 0111465

ISBN: 1897462212

Condition: Good

As a child growing up in a small town in Canada, in the early 1900s, John Humphrey experienced much bullying after the loss of his arm at age six. Despite personal tragedy, John's determination and resilience led him through many adventures and into a brilliant career. John was the first Human Rights director at the United Nations and drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "By portraying the life of John Peters Humphrey, 'The Boy Who Was Bullied' is a celebration of the power of the spirit to triumph over adversity. John Humphrey did not let his bullies define his fate; rather he t... View more info