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A Novel
by Stef Penney
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by Edward Beauclerk Maurice
Published Nov 2006
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by Seth Kantner
Published Aug 2005
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by Jonathan Raymond
Published May 2005
Read ReviewsA debut novel set in the Pacific Northwest of the 1820s and 1980s - two friendships separated by generations but bound together by a dark mystery.
by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Published Jan 2005
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