The Strane family has it all figured out. They have a life they love in a world they have created for themselves that is filled with harmony and happiness and a touch of chaos too. Then a tragic accident stops their world on a dime. Peace is shattered. Everything is torn asunder as a child is lost--a son and brother--and those left behind are thrust into the darkness of grief and guilt. Celia's Journey takes the Stranes from the pit of despair through the tentative steps toward healing--testing the strength of their love, searching the depths of their pain, and finding the triumph of their spirit.
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A family and community become swept-up in a tempest of violence and tragedy. After John Sayre starts slipping off at odd hours from the family farm, his wife Frances begins to suspect that he’s joined a newly-revived chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. By the time their young son discovers the corpse of a lynched black man along the side of a nearby dirt road, Frances Sayre has had enough. But John hasn’t joined the ranks of the murderous KKK as his wife fears. Just the same, John’s secret has the potential to destroy their marriage, if not so much more. What comes to pass over those heated days of summer, none on any side could have imagined, or wanted.
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When his father dies, English professor Jack Lamb embarks on a search for truth surrounding the disappearance of his mother thirty three years ago, grappling with a past he thought he knew, a future that is slowly spiraling out of his control in the form of a failed marriage and a troubled sister. A series of seemingly unrelated events—the discovery of an old photograph, a chance encounter with a down-to-earth woman named Faye, and blind determination—propel Lamb through the creative, daunting landscape of his anxiety and the arresting wilderness of Devil’s Elbow, Missouri, where will come face to face with the flimsy psychological foundation upon which he has built his life. As this foundation begins to crumble, Lamb immerses himself in a desperate quest to piece together his past. What he finds will change everything.
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For fifty years, Anna Schlemmer has refused to talk about her life in Germany during World War II. Her daughter, Trudy, was only three when she and her mother were liberated by an American soldier and went to live with him in Minnesota. Trudy's sole evidence of the past is an old photograph: a family portrait showing Anna, Trudy, and a Nazi officer, the Obersturmfuhrer of Buchenwald.
Driven by the guilt of her heritage, Trudy, now a professor of German history, begins investigating the past and finally unearths the dramatic and heartbreaking truth of her mother's life.
Combining a passionate, doomed love story, a vivid evocation of life during the war, and a poignant mother/daughter drama, Those Who Save Us is a profound exploration of what we endure to survive and the legacy of shame.
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This unique version also includes bonus annotations:
- Biography of the author
- Literary critique
- Historical context of the book
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget.
These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on 14 October 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on 15 October by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies.
The book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 for the occultism of its author, although the book shows few to no signs of such material. Later, the embargo was lifted.
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Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks's new novel believes he's found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he's never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories only a master such as Sparks can write.
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Plunge down a rabbit hole to explore an incredible, dreamlike realm where animals not only talk, they sing, dance, argue, tell jokes, and behave in the most unexpected fashion. This complete and unabridged edition of one of the best-known and most-loved works of English-language fantasy includes John Tenniel's celebrated drawings.
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A passionate young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging, vengeful husband are the central characters in this stark drama of the conflict between passion and convention in the harsh world of seventeenth-century Boston.
Tremendously moving and rich in psychological insight, this tragic novel of sin and redemption addresses our Puritan past. Depicting the struggle between mind and heart, Hawthorne fashioned a masterpiece of American fiction.
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