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Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
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Billy Boyle: a World War II Mystery
by James R. Benn
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Still Life
by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of Canada's S–ret‚ du Quebec is called to Three Pines, a tiny hamlet south of Montreal, just north of the U.S. border, to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of Jane Neal, a local fixture in the village.
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Unbroken
by Laura Hillenbrand
Tells the gripping true story of a U.S. airman who was the soul surviver when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II and had to face thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater.
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Circus Mirandus
by Cassie Beasley
Learning from his dying grandfather that a magical circus at the heart of his favorite bedtime stories is real, young Micah and his friend Jenny embark on a journey to claim a miracle from the circus's wondrous magician, the Lightbender.
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Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
A new translation of the classic nineteenth-century Russian novel in which a young woman is destroyed when she attempts to live outside the moral law of her society.
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The Smartest Kids in the World
by Amanda Ripley
Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living and learning in Finland, South Korea and Poland, a literary journalist, through their adventures, discovers startling truths about how attitudes, parenting and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.
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