What’s In A Name?

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The use of names in book titles are intriguing invitations to meet extraordinary characters, and an opportunity to follow their remarkable journeys.
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    Finding freedom after her husband’s untimely death, Sarah Ann Westfall befriends an outlaw and his two young sons — after she catches them breaking and entering her home.
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    Raine Cantrell
    Sarah
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    Spanning almost a century and a continent, this book follows a destructive whirlwind as it swirls its way through Duluth, unearthing new historical debris and fresh perspectives.
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    A seemingly innocuous domestic accident leads to a terminal illness that brings Ivan Ilyich face to face with mortality, raising questions about the notion of living a good life.
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    What would you do to remain young and beautiful forever? In Wilde’s controversial classic, the eponymous, narcissistic anti-hero sells his soul in order to live a life of debauchery without staining his own respectable appearance.
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    Back where it all began, this insightful collection of recently updated stories and photos, charts Bryce’s unprecedented rise to the major leagues, as covered by The Post.
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    The Washington Post
    The Bryce Harper Story
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    It’s 1959 in Greenwich Village, and Claire Bishop is sitting for a portrait as a gift from her husband. The thing is, it’s not a portrait of her alive…
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    Carmiel Banasky
    The Suicide of Claire Bishop
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    Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life.
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    One languid Los Angeles afternoon, Death pays a visit to an addict called CJ. CJ is Joe’s only friend in the world, so Joe isn’t happy.
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    Tony O'Neill
    Waiting For CJ
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    With her best friend Eugenie slowly dying, Sarah Conley’s love for Jack is reignited. But Jack is Eugenie’s husband. Work leads Sarah to Paris. Will love follow?
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    Ellen Gilchrist
    Sarah Conley
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    Hear the Victorian voices of an entire Kentish village on this postmodern novel about science and religion. Father, widower and Charles Darwin’s gardener, Thomas Davies shuns church and religion. But now he needs answers. What should he believe?
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    Mr Darwin's Gardener
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    In this late-night postmodern noir, film and fiction collide when a librarian-historian’s words recount the reportedly rare reels he supposedly destroyed.
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    When her parents announced their divorce, Patricia “Sweet Pea” DiMarco didn’t imagine splitting her life between two near-identical houses on the same street, one house apart. But one day the person who lives between them, advice columnist Flora Mae, asks Sweet Pea a favour that will change her life forever…
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    Dear Sweet Pea
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    It’s 1918 and in rural Nebraska German-American Gerda Vogel has been disowned by her family for marrying against their wishes. Now confronted with violence, prejudice and a global pandemic, can Gerda keep her family safe in the aftermath of the Great War?
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    Karen Shoemaker
    The Meaning of Names
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    Built in the Blitz on the backstreets of Whitechapel, Queenie Butler’s learnt that survival is about doing what you have to when family comes first. And if men are what their mothers make them, then the Butler boys are going to make sure Queenie’s name goes down in East End legend.
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    Kimberley Chambers
    Queenie
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    Populated by wealthy tourists and eccentric billionaires, the only city on the moon can be a tough place to live if your job as a porter barely pays the rent. To make ends meet, Jazz Bashara smuggles contraband...until she thinks she’s spotted the perfect crime.
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    Ayesha is lonely but not lonely enough to accept an arranged marriage. Teaching to clear her debts to a wealthy uncle, Ayesha unwittingly falls for the conservative and condescending Khalid. But there’s a problem: he’s just got engaged to her flighty younger cousin.
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    Ayesha At Last
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    When the daughter of Helios discovers the company of mortals and the power of witchcraft, the threatened Gods banish her to the deserted island of Aiaia.

    Standing as a woman alone, enraptured by the mortal Odysseus and pitted against the mightiest Olympians, Circe must either choose the mortal realm or take her place amongst the gods
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    Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine in her rigidly timetabled, carefully controlled, intentionally isolated world until it is shattered by a stranger, an act of kindness and the IT guy from work…the one with a big heart.
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    A teenage identity crisis with a twist: the son of a scientist discovers a photograph of his younger self which raises questions about his origins and might explain his eccentric obsessions with insects, opera, old Japanese sci-fi movies, playing the didgeridoo, and the Loch Ness monster.
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    Lesley Choyce
    Deconstructing Dylan
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    Predominantly through the medium of free wine at literary events, aspiring author Francis Plug demonstrates an effortless ability to create social chaos and hopefully, a self-help guide for novice writers. But will he make it to the end of his own book?
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