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  Ferry to Cooperation Island - A...

  Carol Newman Cronin

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  "Cronin has built a world that you won’t want to sail away from!" —Juliette Fay, USA Today Bestselling author 
  Loner James Malloy is a ferry captain—or used to be, until he was unceremoniously fired and replaced by Courtney Farris. Now, instead of piloting Brenton Island’s daily lifeline to the glitzy docks of Newport, Rhode Island, James spends his days beached, bitter, and bored. 
  When he discovers a private golf course staked out across wilderness sacred to his dying best friend, a Narragansett Indian, James is determined to stop such “improvements.” But despite Brenton’s nickname as “Cooperation Island,” he’s used to working solo. To keep rocky bluffs, historic trees, and ocean shoreline open to all, he’ll have to learn to work with other islanders—including Captain Courtney, who might just morph from irritant to irresistible once James learns a secret that’s been kept from him for years. 
  This salt-sprayed fourth novel by 2004 Olympic Sailor Carol Newman Cronin celebrates wilderness and water, open space and open-mindedness, and the redemptive power of neighborly cooperation.

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  The Scarlet Letter

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses to name the father, and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. 
  Throughout the novel, Hawthorne explores questions of grace, legalism, sin and guilt.

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  More Ghost Stories

  M. R. James

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  M. R. James second collection of  ghost stories which he wrote while Provost of King's College, Cambridge. Written to be read aloud.

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  Reason for Leaving - Job Stories

  John Manderino

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  In the last column of a job application, there’s that tricky question: reason for leaving? John Manderino has apparently had to puzzle over that one often and long. His answers are collected here in this hilarious novel-in-stories tracing the history of a guy trying to grow up job by job. Delivery boy, altar boy, busboy, teacher, cotton picker, umpire, Zen monk—Manderino’s protagonist tries on one hat after another, from Chicago to Arizona to a South Dakota reservation where he longs to be given an Indian name, "something like Many Roads, or Many Jobs." Each story in this highly entertaining collection is complete in itself, yet Manderino has woven them into a seamless history that’s hard to put down. The author of Sam and His Brother Len and The Man Who Once Played Catch with Nellie Fox has once again given us a funny, moving portrait of a man’s journey of becoming. Becoming what? The answer lies behind all his reasons for leaving. John Manderino has a sharp eye for human foibles and his depictions of life in the workaday world will leave readers laughing long and loud.

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  The Tales of Mother Goose

  Charles Perrault

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  The initiator of the literary fairy tale genre, Charles Perrault, published in 1695 under the name of his son a collection of fairy tales Histoires ou contes du temps passes, avec des moralites, which grew better known under its subtitle, Contes de ma mere l'Oye or Tales of My Mother Goose. Perrault's publication marks the first authenticated starting-point for Mother Goose stories.

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  Where Shall We Go?

  Nandini Nayar

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  "Sameer has plans for the summer holidays – big plans. And he has the perfect place in
  mind. Can Amma guess where he wants to go? Be transported by Nandini Nayar's
  nimble little vignettes and Francesco Manetti's joyous locales in this vibrant and fanciful
  book. This quirky and irresistible tale will resonate with every child and parent."

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