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With by Donald
Harington
With is the sensual, suspenseful and irresistible tale of Robin
Kerr, a young girl abducted from her family and brought to a remote Ozark
mountaintop, where she is left to fend for herself. Over the course of a
decade, Robin grows up without human relationship, but with the company of
animals and an ‟inhabit,” the half-living ghost of a young boy. In this
magical novel in the Stay More series, Harington gives us one of the most
original survival, coming-of-age, and love stories ever told.
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To This Day
by S.Y. Agnon
To This Day is Nobel prizewinner S.Y. Agnon’s
last novel to be translated into English. It is a brilliantly accomplished and
haunting work. On the surface it is a comically entertaining tale of a young
writer—a Galician Jew who has lived in Palestine, returns to Europe on the eve
of World War I, and is now stranded in Berlin—who wanders from rented room to
rented room in a city with a severe wartime housing shortage. On a deeper
level it is a profound commentary on exile, Zionism, divine providence, human
egoism, and other typically Agnonian concerns...
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The Blessing
of a Broken Heart by Sherri Mandell
Koby Mandell was just thirteen on May 8, 2001, when
he and his friend Yosef cut school to go hiking. Their bodies were found the
next day in a cave, brutally stoned to death. The extreme cruelty of this act
of terror shocked the world. How does a family cope with such a loss? Koby’s
mother Sherri has penned this absorbing, deeply painful and yet strangely
beautiful account of her loss, sharing her thoughts and emotions as she moves
through the first stages of mourning. Sherri’s determination to choose hope
and faith over despair and hate are humbling and moving, and her journey
towards light and healing is an inspiration...
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Farther Along
by Donald Harington
He wants to get away from it all. Despite a satisfying career as chief curator
of a museum devoted to the vanished American past, he finds he himself wants
to vanish. So with the help of a book on the life and culture of a vanished
tribe of Indians known as Bluff-dwellers, he takes up residence in the
wilderness of the Ozark mountains, with only a dog for company and only an
atlatl—a primitive spear thrower—to provide him with his supper. But after six
years of this life he realizes that what he is trying to get away from is
himself…
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