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On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and... (more)

Circle of Friends

by Maeve Binchy

It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains...except their... (more)

Full Circle

by Michael Palin

Full Circl e could be subtitled Palin's Book of Wonders. As he and his television crew undertake what may be the first-ever circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim, they prove that there is an awful lot of the world Palin hasn't seen. In this, the third and most ambitious of Michael Palin's adventures, he travels for almost a year through the eighteen countries that border the world's largest ocean. Volcanoes mark... (more)

The Cleansing of Earth-2012

by Ryszard Choroszy

The Cleansing of the Earth 2012 tells the transfixing and unforgettable story of Lucyna Lobos, who experienced a clinical death in a Poland hospital. Later, during a hypnotic regression, she saw an insightful and extraordinary vision -- which gave her answers to the secrets of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt. Her memories hold a fascinating, riveting tale. A young Ancient Egyptian priestess is appointed by... (more)

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