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"From the moment Hollis Darby meets Ana Newport, he's smitten. Even though he's from a wealthy, established family and she isn't, he wishes he could have a life with her by his side. But Hollis has a secret: the deep coffers that have kept his family afloat for generations are bare, so he supports himself by writing penny dreadfuls under a pseudonym. If not for the income from his novels, he would be broke. Ana Newport also has a secret. Though she...
63) Salt peanuts
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Publisher
Phonoco International
Pub. Date
℗1988
Physical Desc
1 audio disc ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (5 pages)
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English
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Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
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English
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"[A] deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons--a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in a dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Writer and adventurer Craig Childs delves into the primacy of our starkest landscapes and the profound nature of the more-than-human."-- Back cover.
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English
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"In this new holiday-themed novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mistletoe Promise and The Walk, a man receives the best Christmas present he could ask for: the chance to re-write the past. Jason Chercher is not doing well in love or life. Just two weeks after his wife leaves him he receives a phone call that his estranged mother has passed away, days before Christmas--leaving her home and all her belongings to him. Frankly,...
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Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Archaeologist Chuck Bender arrives with his family in the beautiful Yosemite Valley to study the 150-year-old murders of a pair of gold prospectors. In the midst of Chuck's work, preparations for the annual Yosemite Slam rock-climbing competition, and a reunion with his old climbing buddies, the trip quickly turns threatening. One climber never shows up, climbing equipment fails, and Chuck and his wife, Janelle Ortega, are suspected in the shocking,...
68) Inhabited
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Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Meg Mogrin sells pricey houses, belongs to the mayor's inner circle, and knows more than she's letting on about her sister's death. Isaac Samson lives in a tent and believes Thomas Edison invented the Reagan presidency. When their town attracts a game-changing development, Isaac is displaced by the town's crackdown on vagrancy. As Isaac struggles to regain stability, Meg contends with conflicting roles of assisting the developer while serving on the...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"Returning to her small Colorado hometown to find her old high school flame newly single and a new gas field threatening her family's cattle ranch, echo - activist Addie Decker ignites an armed conflict revealing cold truths about love and family, forgiveness and self - discovery." -- FantasticFiction.com
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Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition.
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377 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"When the pandemic struck, nature writer David Gessner turned to Henry David Thoreau, the original social distancer, for lessons on how to live. Those lessons-of learning our own backyard, rewilding, loving nature, self-reliance, and civil disobedience-hold a secret that could help save us as we face the greater crisis of climate"--
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Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Before Us Like a Land of Dreams follows a disheartened Utah mother traveling an evocative route through the sites of her arid Western ancestry. As her narration fades, the dead speak their stories: a ragged Mormon boy; a hoarder's queer son; descendants of British squatters. They give no answers, but conjure vivid moments set in iconic--and diminishing--American places"--Amazon.
72) Last night
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
132 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Viking
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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"It is not too much to compare Mr. Narayan to Chekhov." -The New York Times
There is no better introduction to R.K. Narayan than this remarkable collection of stories celebrating work that spans five decades. Characters include a storyteller whose magical source of tales dries up, a love-stricken husband who is told by astrologers he must sleep with a prostitute to save his dying wife, a pampered child who discovers that his beloved uncle may be...
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Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Learn how to defeat monsters by practicing good health habits, including brushing and flossing teeth, keeping a clean room, and being active instead of sitting in front of the television all afternoon.
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st world ed.
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A married woman, pregnant with her sea-captain lover's child, dies giving birth. The child, Serafina Finn, is abandoned to an orphanage and grows up longing to feel that she belongs somewhere. Eighteen years later, her father, hearing rumours that his lost daughter survived, dispatches a detective, Adam Chapman, to discover the truth. Adam finds, and falls in love with, Serafina--but, even if he can prove her identity, will her real family accept...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Torrey House Press edition.
Physical Desc
159 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This guide gives prospective microfarmers the dirt on realistic essentials for turning a garden into a money-making enterprise. The author advises on such basics as business plans and sales techniques; profiles a range of actual working microfarms, from flowers to killer bees; and relates stories from his own microfarming.
79) Light years
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1975]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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