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336 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Jane Ellison is a 'super recognizer' able to identify strangers by the slightest facial details ... When she spies human rights activist and heiress Bella Valencia in a crowded Boston airport, Jane's convinced she's found the person responsible for her sister Kit's disappearance ... Jane is ready to risk everything for the chance to publicly expose Bella's crimes at her upcoming celebrity wedding. But the more she digs into what happened that night,...
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226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Each of the six stories in Your Duck is My Duck, Eisenberg's first collection since 2006, has the heft and complexity of a novel. With her own inexorable but utterly unpredictable logic and her almost uncanny ability to conjure the strange states of mind and emotion that constitute our daily consciousness, Eisenberg pulls us as if by gossamer threads through her characters -- a tormented woman whose face determines her destiny; a group of film actors...
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669 pages : map ; 25 cm
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English
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This epic novel, based on the author's own experiences in Africa, tells the stories of pilots, aid workers, missionaries, and renegades struggling to relieve the misery wrought by the civil war in Sudan. The hearts of these men and women are in the right place, but as they plunge into a well of moral corruption for which they are ill-prepared, their hidden flaws conspire with circumstances to turn their strengths--bravery, compassion, daring, and...
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322 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills -- until her whole world dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas. In the aftermath, she pieces her life back together and tries to find meaning in her existence as a human rights worker in the worst areas around the globe. Then, on the anniversary of the fateful accident --...
6) Blue
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314 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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Una conmovedora historia sobre las segundas oportunidades y el poder del amor. Ginny Carter fue una periodista famosa, una mujer realizada y la orgullosa madre de un niño de tres años. Hoy es la única superviviente de un accidente que le destrozó la vida y viaja a los lugares más peligrosos del planeta para ayudar a las víctimas de la guerra. El día que conoce a Blue Williams, un chico de trece años que vive en la calle, todo vuelve a cobrar...
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