Francis Cassidy
1) The winner
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"She is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when LuAnn Tyler is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All she has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever. It's an offer she dares to refuse...until violence forces her hand and thrusts her into a harrowing game of high-stakes, big-money subterfuge. It's a price she won't fully pay...until she does the unthinkable...
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In 1873, on a desolate island off the New Hampshire coast, two women were violently murdered. More than a century later, Jean, a photojournalist, is sailing to that island to capture images for a photo-essay about the legendary crime. Along the way, she falls prey to uncontrollable emotions. As Jean immerses herself in the unsettling details of the murders, she begins to suspect her husband of having an affair with a woman accompanying them on the...
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In this autobiography, initially published in 1903, Helen Keller recalls her remarkable life as a blind and deaf woman taught to communicate by Ann Sullivan. Here among other memories, Keller describes her epiphany at the water pump when she connected the physical world with its linguistic counterpart. Keller was eventually educated at Radcliffe University, where she graduated with honors.
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An airliner porpoises over the Pacific--dives and rises--killing a number of passengers. Human or technical error? On the answer depend a big overseas sale to China and company jobs. Vice-president Casey Singleton battles TV hounds, intrigues and a hostile CEO as she tries to determine the cause.
5) Heidi
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A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical backround of the story.
6) Molders of the medieval mind: the influence of the fathers of the church on the medieval schoolmen
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B. Herder Book Co
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1944
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English