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"Free eBooks Download" Delivering the Truth (A Quaker Midwife Mystery) PDF By Edith Maxwell Total Download 199641 Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. Synopsis Quaker midwife Rose Carroll discovers dark secrets in 1888 Massachusetts For Quaker midwife Rose Carroll, life in Amesbury, Massachusetts, provides equal measures of joy and tribulation. She delights in attending to the needs of mothers and newborns even as she mourns the recent death of her sister. Likewise, Rose enjoys the giddy feelings that come from being courted by a handsome doctor, but a suspicious fire and two murders leave her fearing for the well-being of her loved ones. Driven by...

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"Kindle ebook" The Meursault Investigation PDF By Kamel Daoud Total Download 121219 “Drink deeply from good books.” -John Wooden Synopsis A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 “A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus’s The Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab victims.” —The New Yorker   He was the brother of “the Arab” killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus’s classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling’s memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name—Musa—...

"Kindle ebook" How to Manage a Marquess (Spinster House) PDF By Sally MacKenzie Total Download 63263 “Drink deeply from good books.” -John Wooden Synopsis In USA Today bestselling author Sally MacKenzie's charming Spinster House series, love is always a welcome guest… Two possible futures loom before Miss Anne Davenport. The first option: sharing an unhappy home with her father and soon-to-be stepmother. The second: a life of independence at the Spinster House--if only her friend, Cat, would vacate the premises and marry the Duke of Hart. A well-placed whisper about the pair's secret tryst might speed the course of true love. Bu...

Complete Download: The Falconer: Book One of the Falconer Trilogy PDF By Elizabeth May Total Download 28200 Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. Synopsis Edinburgh, 1844. Beautiful Aileana Kameron only looks the part of an aristocratic young lady. In fact, she's spent the year since her mother died developing her ability to sense the presence of Sithichean, a faery race bent on slaughtering humans. She has a secret mission: to destroy the faery who murdered her mother. But when she learns she's a Falconer, the last in a line of female warriors and the sole hope of preventing a powerful faery population from massacring all of humanity, her quest f...

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Download ebook: Fin & Lady: A Novel PDF By Cathleen Schine Total Download 242855 Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. Synopsis From the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a wise, clever story of New York in the '60s It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging '60s. He soon learns that Lady-giddy, careless, urgent, and ob...

Download ebook: 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®) PDF By Lorrie Moore, Heidi Pitlor Total Download 117302 Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. Synopsis The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary...

Download Full Fleur de Lies (A Passport to Peril Mystery) PDF By Maddy Hunter Total Download 177400 Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. Synopsis Déjà Vu All Over Again When intrepid travel agency owner Emily Andrew-Miceli takes her band of tech-savvy seniors to France, they say “Bonjour” by cruising down the Seine River. Along for the ride are a colorful cast of cruise-goers, including four sales reps who are the crème de la crème of the cosmetic industry and a group of morticians looking for a little joie de vivre as they sort out business conflicts. But once a guest is found dead along Normandy’s famed Alabaster coast, Emily...

Download Full Love & Misadventure PDF By Lang Leav Total Download 101042 Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back. Synopsis The journey from love to heartbreak to finding love again is personal yet universal. Lang Leav's evocative poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey.  Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of her readers. Her talent for translating complex emotions with astonishing simplicity has won her a cult following of devoted fans from all over the world. Lang Leav is a poet and internationally exhibiting artist. Her work expresses the...

EPUB/BOOK: Stories of the Raksura: The Falling World & The Tale of Indigo and Cloud PDF By Martha Wells Total Download 98140 “What you don’t know would make a great book.” –Sydney Smith Synopsis In “The Falling World,” Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud Court, has traveled with Chime and Balm to another Raksuran court. When she fails to return, her consort, Moon, along with Stone and a party of warriors and hunters, must track them down. Finding them turns out to be the easy part; freeing them from an ancient trap hidden in the depths of the Reaches is much more difficult. “The Tale of Indigo and Cloud” explores the history of the Indigo Cloud Court, long before Moon wa...

EPUB/BOOK: Mr. Terupt Falls Again PDF By Rob Buyea Total Download 39404 “What you don’t know would make a great book.” –Sydney Smith Synopsis The kids and teacher of Because of Mr. Terupt are back in this warm-hearted sequel. Fifth-grade was full of unforgettable events for Mr. Terupt and his class at Snow Hill School. Seven students were particularly affected by Mr. Terupt. Now those seven students are back, and they've been granted the rare opportunity to send one more year with their beloved teacher before they graduate from elementary school. Peter's parents expect him to attend private school after sixth-grade, but Pet...

free ebook: The Notebook of Doom #1: Rise of the Balloon Goons (A Branches Book) PDF By Troy Cummings Total Download 87589 “A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.” –Thomas Carlyle Synopsis Monsters + Humor + Fun = THE NOTEBOOK OF DOOM! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow! Alexander has just moved to a new town where he is about to uncover all sorts of monsters! He finds an old notebook with t...

free ebook: Because of Mr. Terupt PDF By Rob Buyea Total Download 37539 “A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.” –Thomas Carlyle Synopsis Features seven narrators, each with a unique story, and each with a different perspective on what makes their teacher so special. It’s the start of fifth grade for seven kids at Snow Hill School. There’s . . . Jessica, the new girl, smart and perceptive, who’s having a hard time fitting in; Alexia, a bully, your friend one second, your enemy the next; Peter, class prankster and troublemaker; Luke, the brain; Danielle, who never stands up for herself; shy Anna, whose home situat...

[Read] Socks PDF By Beverly Cleary Total Download 76363 “Tis the good reader that makes the good book.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Synopsis Socks is one very happy cat. He lives the good life with his nice young owners, Mr. and Mrs. Bricker. They play with him when-ever he wants, feed him special treats, and always pet and scratch him when he curls up in their warm laps.Then a new baby arrives. Suddenly little Charles William is the one get-ting all the love and attention. Socks feels completely left out. To show how he feels about the new addition to the Bricker family, Socks starts getting into all sorts of trouble—with tomcats,...

[Read] The Indian in the Cupboard PDF By Lynne Reid Banks Total Download 24631 “Tis the good reader that makes the good book.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Synopsis Full of magic and appealing characters, this classic novel takes readers on a remarkable adventure. It's Omri's birthday, but all he gets from his best friend, Patrick, is a little plastic Indian brave. Trying to hide his disappointment, Omri puts the Indian in a metal cupboard and locks the door with a mysterious skeleton key that once belonged to his great-grandmother. Little does Omri know that by turning the key, he will transform his ordinary plastic Indian into a real live man...

[Kindle ebook] Girl Against the Universe PDF By Paula Stokes Total Download 143568 Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Synopsis From the author of The Art of Lainey and Liars, Inc. comes a fresh, contemporary story about a girl coping with PTSD and the boy who wants to help her move on from the past.  Perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen or Jenny Han. Sixteen-year-old Maguire knows the universe is against her. No matter how many charms she buys off the internet or good luck rituals she performs each morning, horrible things happen when she's around. Like that time the roller coaster jumped off its tracks. O...

[Kindle ebook] Fuzzy Mud PDF By Louis Sachar Total Download 40310 Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. Synopsis From the author of the acclaimed bestseller Holes, winner of the Newbery Award and the National Book Award, comes Fuzzy Mud, a New York Times bestseller.  "Sachar blends elements of mystery, suspense, and school-day life into a taut environmental cautionary tale."--Publishers Weekly   Be careful. Your next step may be your last. Fifth grader Tamaya Dhilwaddi and seventh grader Marshall Walsh have been walking to and from Woodridge Academy together since el...

[Book] I am Jane Goodall (Ordinary People Change the World) PDF By Brad Meltzer Total Download 301544 If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Synopsis We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times bestselling picture book biography series from historian and author Brad Meltzer. Learn all about Jane Goodall, the chimpanzee scientist.   Each picture book in this series is a biography of a significant historical figure, told in a simple, conversational, vivacious way, and always focusing on a character trait that makes the person a role model for kids. The heroes are depicted as children throughout, tel...