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The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II

Jan Jarboe Russell · Scribner
Pages: 393
Format: Print book

The dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II, where thousands of families - many US citizens - were incarcerated.From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America...
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Jenny Han · Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pages: 355
Format: Paperback

Lara Jean's love life gets complicated in this New York Times bestselling "lovely, lighthearted romance" (SLJ) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer I Turned Pretty series.What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them ... all at once?...
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The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power

Steve Fraser · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished.From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege....
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Heir of Fire

Sarah J. Maas · Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak--but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth . . . a truth about her heritage that could change her life--and her future--forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering...
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Avenue of mysteries

John Irving · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 460
Format: Print book

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory.In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego - a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico - has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe,...
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TOX-SICK: From Toxic to Not Sick

Suzanne Somers · Harmony
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"It's as if we are all on a big, chemical drunk, and the hangover is a killer." - Suzanne Somers, in TOX-SICKPioneering health and wellness advocate, Suzanne Somers, delivers a powerful answer in this expose on the immediate and long-term dangers of living in a world that...
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Jesus: An Illustrated Life

Jean-Pierre Isbouts · National Geographic Society
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Two thousand years after his death, Jesus of Nazareth remains one of history's most influential and fascinating figures. In this powerful, elegantly written, and expertly illustrated celebration, Jean-Pierre Isbouts brings readers into Jesus' life journey on a deeply human level,...
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The Fall of Five

Pittacus Lore · HarperCollins; Reprint edition
Format: Kindle Edition

The Garde is hopelessly outmatched by the annihilating Mogadorian ruler and draws unexpectedly close to finding the last remaining member of their group of alien survivors.
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River Cottage Veg: 200 Inspired Vegetable Recipes

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall · Ten Speed Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A comprehensive collection of recipes that embrace vegetarian cuisine as the centerpiece of a meal from the leading food authority behind the critically acclaimed River Cottage seriesPioneering champion of sustainable foods Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall embraces all manner of vegetables...
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Beyond Measure: Rescuing an Overscheduled, Overtested, Underestimated Generation

Vicki Abeles · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 287
Format: Print book

From the director of Race to Nowhere, the popular 2010 documentary on our education system that has become a long-running grassroots phenomenon, and a new film, Beyond Measure, comes a groundbreaking book for parents, students, and educators on how to revolutionize learning, prioritize...
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