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  The Voice - Grandma's Amazing...

  C. Ruth Taylor

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  THE SECRETS OF HER SURVIVAL 
  How would you survive as a single mother, raising nine children? 
  Whether rich or poor, in any era, this is a mammoth task. So, how did Ruth’s grandmother do it in the mid-1950s to the early 80s in rural Jamaica, as a farmer with just a primary school education? What are the secrets of her survival and how did her children fare in the end? 
  In this inspirational memoir, author C. Ruth Taylor, shares the story of her beloved grandmother, Enid Nelson, who accomplished this extraordinary feat as a single mother. Read along to discover the challenges she encountered and the role of the supernatural in causing her to triumph. 
  You’ll love this book because it not only speaks of the strength of a woman, but shows the power of faith in building rock-solid resilience in the face of tremendous odds. 
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  Dadland

  Keggie Carew

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  As her father’s memory fails, a daughter explores his military past: “Part family memoir, part history book . . . Compelling and moving from start to finish” (Financial Times).   One of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Ten Best Books of the Year   For most of Keggie Carew’s life, she was kept at arm’s length from her father’s personal history. But when she is invited to join him for the sixtieth anniversary of the Jedburghs—an elite special operations unit that was the first collaboration between the American and British Secret Services during World War II—a new door opens in their relationship. As dementia begins to stake a claim over Tom Carew’s memory, Keggie embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she bargained for.   Tom Carew was a maverick, a left-handed stutterer, a law unto himself. As a Jedburgh he parachuted behind enemy lines to raise guerrilla resistance first against the Germans in France, then against the Japanese in Southeast Asia, where he won the nickname “Lawrence of Burma.” But his wartime exploits were only the beginning. A winner of the Costa Book Award, Dadland takes us on a journey through peace and war and shady corners of twentieth-century politics; though the author’s English childhood and the breakdown of her family, and into the mysterious realm of memory.   “Brings to mind Helen MacDonald’s H is for Hawk in the way it soars off in surprising directions, teaches you things you didn’t know, and ambushes your emotions.” ―NPR   “Astonishing . . . Mixes intimate memoir, biography, history and detective story: this is a shape-shifting hybrid that meditates on the nature of time and identity . . . Tom Carew was a razzle-dazzle character, larger than life and anarchically self-invented . . . For all its vigor and comic zest, Dadland is a careful and tender discovery that patiently circles around a man who spent his life mythologizing and running away from himself.” ―The Observer

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  Double Play

  Ben Zobrist, Julianna Zobrist,...

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  All-Star player Ben Zobrist (Tampa Bay Rays), considered one of the best all-around players in baseball, writes about the importance of his faith, life, and athletic career in Double Play. Written with his wife, Christian singer Julianna Zobrist, and MikeYorkey, best-selling author of Every Man's Battle and Linspired: The Remarkable Rise of Jeremy Lin, the book gives fans a first look into the heart of an athlete whose talent and devotion to God, family, and baseball make him one of the most loveable figures in the Major League today.

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  The Devil's Gentleman -...

  Harold Schechter

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  The wayward son of a revered Civil War general, Roland Molineux enjoyed good looks, status, and fortune—hardly the qualities of a prime suspect in a series of shocking, merciless cyanide killings. Molineux's subsequent indictment for murder led to two explosive trials and a sex-infused scandal that shocked the nation. Bringing to life Manhattan's Gilded Age, Schechter captures all the colors of the tumultuous legal proceedings, gathering his own evidence and tackling subjects no one dared address at the time—all in hopes of answering a tantalizing question: What powerfully dark motives could drive the wealthy scion of an eminent New York family to murder?

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  Finally Free - An Autobiography

  Michael Vick

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  One of the most talented and polarizing athletes of our generation,   Michael Vick's stunning story has captured news headlines across the   nation. From his poverty-stricken youth, to his success on the field in   high school and college, to his rise to NFL stardom and his fall from   grace, Finally Free shows how a gifted athlete's life spiraled out of   control under the glare of money and fame, aided by his own poor   choices. In his own words, Vick details his regrets, his search for   forgiveness, the moments of unlikely grace-and the brokenness that   brought his redemption on the way to a surprising, fairy-tale season   with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2010.

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  The Sherlock Holmes Collection

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective ever created, and is one of the best known and most universally recognizable literary characters in any genre. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that featured Holmes. All but four stories were narrated by Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson, two having been narrated by Holmes himself, and two others written in the third person. The first two stories, short novels, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialized novels appeared almost right up to Conan Doyle's death in 1930. • A Study in Scarlet Starts at Chapter 1 • The Sign of the Four Starts at Chapter 15• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Starts at Chapter 28• The Memoirs of Sherlock HolmesStarts at Chapter 48• The Hound of the Baskervilles Starts at Chapter 61• The Return of Sherlock Holmes Starts at Chapter 76• The Valley of Fear Starts at Chapter 95• His Last Bow Starts at Chapter 110

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