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The zookeeper's wife [playaway]
by Diane Ackerman
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When Germany invaded Poland, bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into the empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing and, during rare moments of calm, piano ...
2007; ; isbn:9781605145259 |
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For one more day [playaway]
Mitch Albom
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What if you could spend one more day with a lost love one? Charley Benetto chose to live with his father when his parents divorced. He returns to his hometown decades later when his life is falling apart and finds his mother, who died eight years earlier, still living there
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Getting things done [playaway] : the art of stress-free productivity
David Allen
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Veteran coach and management consultant Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to thousands. He shows how to assess goals, relax, and stay focused
2006; ; isbn:1598951416 |
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The canon [playaway] : [a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science]
Natalie Angier
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Most of the profound questions we will explore in our lives--evolution, global warming, stem cells--have to do with science. So do a lot of everyday things, like our ice cream melting and our coffee getting cold and our vacuum cleaner running (or not). What does our liver do when we eat a caramel? How does the horse demonstrate evolution at work? Are ...
2007; ; isbn:9781598959772 |
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Roughneck Nine-One [playaway] : the extraordinary story of a special forces A-team at war
Frank Antenori and Hans Halberstadt
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Documents the controversial April 2003 battle between Green Beret forces and Iraqi soldiers near the village of Debecka, a battle that was marked by extensive news media coverage and the Navy bombing of supporting Peshmerga fighters
2006; ; isbn:9781602529243 |
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The teahouse fire [playaway]
Ellis Avery
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Murder she wrote [playaway] : panning for murder
by Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain
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2007; ; isbn:9781605145990 |
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The Camel Club [playaway]
David Baldacci
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The Camel Club is a four-man group of Washington, D.C. misfits who meet weekly to discuss political conspiracies they believe exist and what actions they might take. When club members witness the murder of Secret Service employee Patrick Johnson, they find themselves in the middle of a bigger conspiracy than they could ever have imagined
2007; ; isbn:9781602526037 |
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The collectors [playaway]
David Baldacci
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When the Speaker of the House and the director of the Library of Congress's rare books room are both murdered, the mysterious Camel Club, headed by a man calling himself Oliver Stone, sets out to solve the murders and save the nation
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The air we breathe [playaway] : a novel
Andrea Barrett
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In fall 1916, Americans debate whether to enter the European war. "Preparedness parades" march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, ...
2007; ; isbn:9781602529472 |
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The outermost house [playaway] : a year of life on the great beach of Cape Cod
Henry Beston
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In 1926, Henry Beston planned to spend two weeks in a two-room cottage on the sand dunes of Cape Cod. He stayed for a year, chronicling the ebb and flow of the tides, the migration of birds, storms, stars, and solitude
2007; ; isbn:9781602527768 |
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2006; ; isbn:1598956671 |
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