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    <title><![CDATA[Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[I Quit!: Stop Pretending Everything Is Fine and Change Your Life]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Geri Scazzero knew there was something desperately wrong with how they were doing their life and ministry. She finally told her husband, 'I quit,' and left the thriving church he pastored, beginning a journey that transformed her, her marriage, and her church. <p>Geri quit being afraid of what others think. She quit lying. She quit denying her anger and sadness. She quit living someone else's life. I Quit provides you a way out of an inauthentic, superficial spirituality to genuine freedom in Christ.</p><p>I Quit is for every person who thinks, I can't keep pretending everything is fine!' </p><p>Biblical quitting goes hand in hand with choosing. When we quit those things that are damaging to our souls or the souls of others, we are freed up to choose other ways of being and relating that are rooted in love and lead to life. <br />When we quit fear of what others think, we choose freedom. <br />When we quit lies, we choose truth.<br />When we quit blaming, we choose to take responsibility. <br />When we quit faulty thinking, we choose to live in reality. </p><p>When we quit for the right reasons, quitting changes us. Something breaks inside of us when we finally say, 'No more.' But it must be done for the right reasons, at the right time, and in the right way. That's what this book is about.<br /></p>]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Spiders from the Shadows (Wrath & Righteousness, #9)]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[INTO THE LION’S DEN<br />“The battle wasn’t starting. It was almost over. There was nothing he could do now, no way to stop the coming wave from crashing down. He had walked into a den of predators so full of jealousy and fury that they couldn’t reason anymore. They were outsiders on the inside, the cancer next to the bone, the disease that would kill the nation after having lain dormant all these years.”<br /><br />As the forces of Darkness work to consolidate worldwide power into a new regime, the Secretary of Defense realizes that he is the Republic’s last chance. With the former FBI Director by his side, the two men launch a daring plan to infiltrate Raven Rock—a secure underground military complex that is hosting the new government.<br /><br /><br />But Lucifer and his accomplices are not sitting idly by. After taking the FBI Director in to Raven Rock they launch a brilliant propaganda counterstrike that the SecDef never saw coming. <br /><br /><br />With no obstacles left in their way, the group of six men prepare to leave Raven Rock to begin reassembling the world they’ve destroyed. But the SecDef isn’t ready to give in. With one last card to play, he sends one of his most trusted allies, a woman with no experience in combat or espionage, on a life or death mission directly into the lion’s den. <br /><br /><br />Against the backdrop of torn-from-the-headlines Middle Eastern drama, the Wrath &amp; Righteousness series is a fast-paced thriller that explores man’s role in the eternal battle between good and evil.<br /><br />Wrath &amp; Righteousnessis a ten episode e-book series by Chris Stewart, a world-record-setting Air Force pilot (fastest nonstop flight around the world) and New York Times bestselling author of several books, including The Miracle of Freedom.<br />Each episode is approximately 50,000-60,000 words (roughly two-thirds the length of a normal novel). This series was adapted from the previously published The Great and Terrible series that was released from 2003-2008.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>154</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Chris Stewart</author_name>
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                                      author: Chris Stewart<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Evil in the Darkness (Wrath & Righteousness, #8)]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[“It really grips you….I lost a lot of sleep reading it.” –Tim LaHaye, co-author of the LEFT BEHIND series<br /><br />ONE MAN STANDS ALONE... <br /><br />“The battle was in motion. The same battle from long ago. The battle for the souls of men, for the soul of their country, for their own family. Eons of waiting and preparing. And now the final days were here.”<br /><br />In the wake of a debilitating EMP attack on America, the rule of law has vanished. Amidst the chaos, the forces of Darkness use all means necessary to consolidate power into a new, illegal government formed without oversight or consent. <br /><br />As this clandestine group of powerful men prepares to introduce their handpicked leader to the world they learn of a major The former Secretary of Defense, thought to be dead, may have somehow survived the attack. As next in the line of succession for the presidency, his presence would threaten the group’s entire plan.<br /><br />With time running out before the public reveal of the chosen president, and the SecDef’s life in grave danger, an all-or-nothing plan is hatched to infiltrate the illegal government and expose them to the world.<br /><br />Against the backdrop of torn-from-the-headlines Middle Eastern drama, the Wrath &amp; Righteousness series is a fast-paced thriller that explores man’s role in the eternal battle between good and evil.<br /><br />Chris Stewart, a world-record-setting Air Force pilot (fastest nonstop flight around the world), is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including The Miracle of Freedom. <br /><br />Wrath &amp; Righteousness is a ten episode e-book series by New York Times bestselling author Chris Stewart. Each episode is approximately 50,000-60,000 words (roughly two-thirds the length of a normal full-length novel). This series was adapted from the previously published The Great and Terrible series that was released from 2003-2008.]]></book_description>
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                                      author: Chris Stewart<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Wolves in the Night (Wrath & Righteousness, #7)]]></title>
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    <author_name>Chris Stewart</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sunrise (Wrath & Righteousness, #10)]]></title>
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    <book_id>18000319</book_id>
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    <author_name>Daniel Keyes</author_name>
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    <author_name>A.A. Milne</author_name>
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    <author_name>Anita Diamant</author_name>
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                                      author: Anita Diamant<br/>
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    <title>Invisible Man</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, <i>Invisible Man</i> is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be.<br /><br />As he journeys from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem, from a horrifying "battle royal" where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies, Ralph Ellison's nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief. Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, <i>Invisible Man</i> is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Ralph Ellison</author_name>
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                                      author: Ralph Ellison<br/>
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    <title>The World According to Garp</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead of her times. This is the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes—even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with "lunacy and sorrow"; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. In more than thirty languages, in more than forty countries—with more than ten million copies in print—this novel provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases."]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>John Irving</author_name>
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                                      author: John Irving<br/>
                                      name: Kim Wood<br/>
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    <title>The Fountainhead</title>
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    <book_id>2122</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim.<br /><br />This modern classic is the story of intransigent young architect Howard Roark, whose integrity was as unyielding as granite...of Dominique Francon, the exquisitely beautiful woman who loved Roark passionately, but married his worst enemy...and of the fanatic denunciation unleashed by an enraged society against a great creator. As fresh today as it was then, Rand’s provocative novel presents one of the most challenging ideas in all of fiction—that man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress...<br /><br />“A writer of great power. She has a subtle and ingenious mind and the capacity of writing brilliantly, beautifully, bitterly...This is the only novel of ideas written by an American woman that I can recall.”—The New York Times]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Ayn Rand</author_name>
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    <title>Fahrenheit 451</title>
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    <title>The Poisonwood Bible</title>
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    <author_name>Barbara Kingsolver</author_name>
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    <author_name>Ayn Rand</author_name>
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    <title>The Stand</title>
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    <title>A Clockwork Orange</title>
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    <author_name>Anthony Burgess</author_name>
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    <title>Goodnight Moon</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room -- to the picture of the three little bears sitting on chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one -- the little bunny says goodnight.<br /><br />In this classic of children's literature, beloved by generations of readers and listeners, the quiet poetry of the words and the gentle, lulling illustrations combine to make a perfect book for the end of the day.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Margaret Wise Brown</author_name>
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                                      author: Margaret Wise Brown<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 10 Sep 2022 18:22:37 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Catch-22</title>
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    <author_name>Joseph Heller</author_name>
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    <title>The Great Gatsby</title>
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    <title>Beneath a Scarlet Sky</title>
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  <b>Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, <i>Beneath a Scarlet Sky</i> is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.</b>
</p><p>Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.</p><p>In an attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier—a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.</p><p>Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.</p><p>Fans of <i>All the Light We Cannot See</i>, <i>The Nightingale</i>, and <i>Unbroken</i> will enjoy this riveting saga of history, suspense, and love.</p>]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Geraldine Brooks</author_name>
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    <author_name>Iris Murdoch</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[When I Lay My Isaac Down: Unshakable Faith in Unthinkable Circumstances]]></title>
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    <author_name>David R. Gillham</author_name>
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                                      author: David R. Gillham<br/>
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  <b>From the bestselling author of <i>Trail of Broken Wings</i> comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.</b>
</p><p>Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past.</p><p>Intoxicated by the sights, smells, and sounds she experiences, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is Ravi—her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant—who reveals the resilience, struggles, secret love, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation. Through her courageous grandmother’s arrestingly romantic and heart-wrenching story, Jaya discovers the legacy bequeathed to her and a strength that, until now, she never knew was possible.</p>]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Sejal Badani</author_name>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn’t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he’s found a way–doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner into the night-dark Atlantic. Unfortunately for Chaz, his wife doesn’t die in the fall.<br /> <br /> Clinging blindly to a bale of Jamaican pot, Joey Perrone is plucked from the ocean by former cop and current loner Mick Stranahan. Instead of rushing to the police and reporting her husband’s crime, Joey decides to stay dead and (with Mick’s help) screw with Chaz until he screws himself.<br /> <br /> As Joey haunts and taunts her homicidal husband, as Chaz’s cold-blooded cohorts in pollution grow uneasy about his ineptitude and increasingly erratic behavior, as Mick Stranahan discovers that six failed marriages and years of island solitude haven’t killed the reckless romantic in him, we’re taken on a hilarious, full-throttle, pure Hiaasen ride through the warped politics and mayhem of the human environment, and the human heart.<br /><br /> This edition includes an excerpt from Carl Hiaasen's <i>Bad Monkey</i>.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Carl Hiaasen</author_name>
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                                      author: Carl Hiaasen<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Playing with Matches (Playing with Matches #1)]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Emil Radle is a dedicated member of Hitler Youth. He's loyal to the Fuehrer before family, a champion for the cause and a fan of the famous Luftwaffe. <br /><br />When his friends Moritz and Johann discover a shortwave radio, everything changes. Now they listen to BBC broadcasts of news reports that tell both sides. Now they know the truth. The boys, along with Johann's sister Katarina, band together to write out the reports and covertly distribute flyers throughout their city. It's an act of high treason that could have them arrested--or worse. <br /><br />As the war progresses, so does Emil's affection for Katarina. He'd do anything to have a normal life and to stay in Passau by her side. But when Germany's losses become immense, even their greatest resistance can't prevent the boys from being sent to the Eastern Front. <br /><br />For Katrina's sake, and for his family, Emil hopes he will survive the battle. He knows they've already lost the war.]]></book_description>
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  <b>The first novel by acclaimed Greek writer Lena Manta to appear in English translation, <i>The House by the River</i> is an intimate, emotionally powerful saga following five young women as they realize that no matter the men they choose, the careers they pursue, or the children they raise, the only constant is home.</b>
</p><p>Theodora knows she can’t keep her five beautiful daughters at home forever—they’re too curious, too free spirited, too like their late father. And so, before each girl leaves the small house on the riverside at the foot of Mount Olympus, Theodora makes sure they know they are always welcome to return.</p><p>A devoted and resilient mother, Theodora has lived through World War II, through the Nazi occupation of Greece, and through her husband’s death, and now she endures the twenty-year-long silence of her daughters’ absence. Her children have their own lives—they’ve married, traveled the world, and courted romance, fame, and even tragedy. But as they become modern, independent women in pursuit of their dreams, Theodora knows they need her—and each other—more than ever. Have they grown so far apart that they’ve forgotten their childhood house in its tiny village, or will their broken hearts finally lead them home?</p>]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy]]></title>
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                                      author: Laurie Notaro<br/>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[It is 1919 in Siberia. Michal—a young, sheltered girl—has eyes for a man other than her betrothed. For a young girl growing up in a traditional Jewish settlement, an arranged marriage is a fact of life. However, destiny, it seems, has other plans for Michal. When a Cossack pogrom invades her small village, the protected life Michal has grown accustomed to and loves will crumble before her eyes. Everything she knows is gone and she is forced to leave her home and embark on a journey to Berlin with the man she thought she wanted. Michal faces love, loss, and heartache because she is harboring a secret that threatens to destroy her every attempt at happiness. But over the next fourteen tumultuous years, during the peak of the Weimar Republic, she learns she is willing to do anything to have the love she longs for and to protect her family. However, it is now 1933. Life in Berlin is changing, especially for the Jews. Dark storm clouds are looming on the horizon. Adolf Hitler is about to become the chancellor of Germany, and that will change everything for Michal forever.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Roberta Kagan</author_name>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[With the same narrative skills and evocative powers that made her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, a national bestseller, Tan now tells the story of Winnie Louie, an aging Chinese woman unfolding a life's worth of secrets to her suspicious, Americanized daughter.]]></book_description>
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                                      author: Brad Thor<br/>
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    <author_name>Caleb Carr</author_name>
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    <title>One Hundred Years of Solitude</title>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 06 Feb 2017 10:18:39 -0800]]></pubDate>
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    <author_name>Pearl S. Buck</author_name>
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    <author_name>Robert A. Heinlein</author_name>
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  <b>A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho.</b>
</p><p>Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, <em>The Alchemist</em> has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.</p><p>Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, to follow our dreams.</p>]]></book_description>
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                                      author: Paulo Coelho<br/>
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    <author_name>Fredrik Backman</author_name>
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    <author_name>Ayşe Kulin</author_name>
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    <user_name>Kim Wood</user_name>
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    <title>The Toss of a Lemon</title>
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    <author_name>Lalita Tademy</author_name>
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    <author_name>Nancy Kricorian</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901]]></title>
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    <author_name>Nancy E. Turner</author_name>
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                                      author: Matthew FitzSimmons<br/>
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                                      author: Gemma Liviero<br/>
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                                      average rating: 4.43<br/>
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    <author_name>Laila Ibrahim</author_name>
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