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  Origin

  by Diana Abu-Jaber

  A fingerprint expert's investigation of a series of crib deaths leads her back to the mystery of her own childhood. Lena is a fingerprint expert at a crime lab in the small city of Syracuse, New York, where winters are cold and deep. Suddenly, a series of crib deaths—indistinguishable from SIDS except for the fevered testimony of one distraught mother with connections in high places—draws the attention of the... (more)
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  Lucky

  A Memoir

  by Alice Sebold

  In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit - as she struggles for understanding ("After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their... (more)
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  The Mask of Apollo

  by Mary Renault

  Set in fourth-century B.C. Greece, The Mask of Apollo is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he finds himself at the center of a political crisis in which the philosopher Plato is also... (more)
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  Speak

  by Laurie Halse Anderson

  Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to... (more)
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  Tides of War

  by Steven Pressfield

  Brilliant at war, a master of politics, and a charismatic lover, Alcibiades was Athens’ favorite son and the city’s greatest general. A prodigal follower of Socrates, he embodied both the best and the worst of the Golden Age of Greece. A commander on both land and sea, he led his armies to victory after victory. But like the heroes in a great Greek tragedy, he was a victim of his own pride, arrogance, excess,... (more)
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  Dionysius I: Warlord of Sicily

  by Brian Caven

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  Syracuse 415-413 BC: Destruction of the Athenian Imperial Fleet (Campaign)

  by Nic Fields

  In 415 BC Athens launched a large expeditionary force, its goal the rich, grain-producing island of Sicily. This was in response to a call for help in a minor war from an old ally but the true objectives were the powerful city of Syracuse, suspected of supporting Athens' Peloponnesian enemies, and imperial expansion. The Athenians won an inconclusive victory over the Syracusans late in the year and renewed their... (more)
• The Comedy of Errors (the Arden Shakespeare)R. A. (editor) Foakes

  

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  The Comedy of Errors (the Arden Shakespeare)

  by R. A. (editor) Foakes

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  Catalyst

  by Laurie Halse Anderson

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  Keeping Secrets

  by June Kelley Pierce

  Two young cousins, Jenny O'Shea and Jade Ritchie, share a special bond that goes beyond family and friendship. When that bond is tested by abuse, the two girls come to learn the value of their friendship. They share a powerful, empowering, and emotional journey as they both fight to protect their childhood and their innocence. When an older cousin arrives, the darkness of his intentions quickly becomes clear,... (more)
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  Archimedes' Claw

  by Theodore Morrison Homa MD

  The Epic Novel of one man's journey back through time and his encounter with Mankind's Greatest Mystery. Driven for Truth,One Man,Uncovers a secret,Hidden in Time,That catapulted the Roman Empire to find Archimedes. Hunted by the Government,Haunted by his past,Driven by passion, he must risk all. Travel back through The Vortex of Time and encounter Mankind's Greatest Mystery.