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Samuel Hawley
"A sweeping and suspenseful novel of love and war, set in Japan during the final days of World War II, with a shocking historical premise: three atomic bombs were actually…
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Hannah Tinti
A father tries to protect his daughter from the legacy of his criminal past
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Bursting with imagination, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti has been described as ‘One part Quentin Tarantino, one part Scheherazade’ (Ann Patchett) and will appeal to fans…
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-Loo is twelve when she moves back to the New England fishing village of her early youth. Her father Hawley finds work on the boats, while she undergoes the usual…
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At the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics an unknown Vancouver runner named Percy Williams shocked the sports world by capturing the 100- and 200-metre gold medals. Some said the feat was a…
It’s the middle of the night. You’re awakened by a noise. Someone is in your house. What do you do? When it happens at 148 Maple Drive, homeowner Jeff Shaw…
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The story of how boxing played a key role in the birth of the movies and how the first feature-length film in cinema history, The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897), came to…
The behind-the-scenes story of America’s involvement in Korea in the 1880s as told through the private family letters of U.S. Navy ensign George Clayton Foulk, Washington’s representative in Seoul. Writing…
The story of a circus elephant’s journey through life Bad Elephant Far Stream is an animal story for adults, a novel about the odyssey of a circus elephant, told from…
In May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158,800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan on Korea’s southern tip. His objective: to conquer Korea, then China, then…
The quest for the land speed record in the 1960s and the epic rivalry between two dynamic American drivers, Art Arfons and Craig Breedlove.
Adams Samuel Hawley
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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An L.A. hot-rodder with a high school education, a family to support, and almost no money, Craig Breedlove set out in the late 1950s to do something big: harness the…
Based on a diary detailing a 900-mile journey by sedan chair through southern Korea in the 1880s-written by one of the few Westerners at the time who could speak Korean-Inside…
