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The Homeplace - Gilbert Morris
SUMMARY: As the year 1928 begins, fourteen-year-old Lanie Belle Freeman of Fairhope, Arkansas, has bright hopes for the future. Her father has launched a new business, and her moth... -
The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Han - James Green
THE HERBAL MEDICINE-MAKER'¬?S HANDBOOK is an entertaining compilation of natural home remedies written by one of the great herbalists, James Green, author of the best-selling THE M... -
The Good Terrorist - Doris May Lessing
The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her id... -
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt - Aimee Bender
Amazon.com ReviewIn conventional fiction, war heroes return home minus an arm or a leg--or, to take Hemingway's worst-case scenario, the family jewels. In Aimee Bender's deeply unc... -
The Frozen Rabbi - Steve Stern
SUMMARY: And what happens when Bernie Karp, the impressionable fifteen-year-old son of the couple in whose home the rabbi lies frozen, inadvertently thaws out the ancient man? Such... -
The Executor - Jesse Kellerman
SUMMARY: Things aren t going well for Joseph Geist. He s broke. His graduate school advisor won t talk to him. And his girlfriend has kicked him out of her apartment, leaving him h... -
The Enterprise of Death - Jesse Bullington
From Publishers WeeklyA Moorish slave cast out of her Spanish home by war, Awa is captured by a necromancer who forces her to learn his skills. When she eventually flees, she disco... -
The Coalwood Way - Homer Hickam
It's fall, 1959, and Homer "Sonny" Hickam and his fellow Rocket Boys are in their senior year at Big Creek High, launching handbuilt rockets that soar thousands of feet into the We... -
The Brief Wondrous Life of Osca - Junot Diaz
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R... -
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
EDITORIAL REVIEW: This work was set in Berlin, 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has receiv...