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The Quiet Room - Lori Schiller; Amanda Bennett
At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child -- the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the stree... -
The Potters Field_ The Seventee - Ellis Peters
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In October of 1142, a local landlord gives the Potter's Field to the local clergy. The monks begin to plow it, and the blades turn up the long tresses of a young ... -
The Last Song - Nicholas Sparks
Amazon.com ReviewProduct Description Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from N... -
The Dust of 100 Dogs - A. S. King
In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage pirate Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pirate life with her one true love and unfathomable riches when she was slain an... -
The Commodore - Patrick O'Brian
SUMMARY: The seventeenth Aubrey-Maturin novel. Jack Aubrey's long service is at last rewarded: he is promoted to the rank of Commodore and given a squadron of ships to command. His... -
The Book of Fires - Jane Borodale
SUMMARY: A stunning historical novel, 'The Book of Fires' is the unforgettable story of Agnes Trussel ' and love, fireworks and redemption.Brought up in rural Sussex, seventeen-yea... -
Smokin Seventeen - Janet Evanovich
Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction ... -
Samuel Pepys - Claire Tomalin
The seventeenth century saw a revolution in man’s thought, as Isaac Newton and others began the scientific study of the universe around them. At the same time a shrewd young civil ... -
Rashomon and Seventeen Other St - Ryunosuke Akutagawa
One of Penguin Classics's most popular translations- now also in our elegant black spine dressAnnotationMoody but powerful are these six short stories exploring the... -
Kolyma Tales - Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov
Product DescriptionIt is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seve...