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Beneath the frozen crusts of several of the small, ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn lurk vast oceans that may have been in existence for as long as Earth, and together may contain more than fifty times its total volume of liquid water. Could there be organisms living in their depths? \u003ci\u003eAlien Oceans\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the science behind the thrilling quest to find out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kevin Peter Hand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41539432743081,"sku":"3","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2144\/8873\/products\/image_738ce399-1814-4f44-bb0a-756b73c0c49a.jpg?v=1634243817"},{"product_id":"the-invention-of-wings","title":"The Invention of Wings","description":"\u003ch1 itemprop=\"name\" class=\"gr-h1 gr-h1--serif\" id=\"bookTitle\"\u003eThe Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: Pre-owned, good condition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eHetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sue Monk Kidd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42889501606057,"sku":"5","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/2144\/8873\/products\/image_0877e19e-96b0-4b29-8636-3d0d6b7fd924.heic?v=1675290596"},{"product_id":"the-golovlevs","title":"The Golovlevs","description":"\u003ch1 itemprop=\"name\" id=\"bookTitle\" class=\"gr-h1 gr-h1--serif\"\u003eThe Golovlevs\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 1.4em;\"\u003eCondition: \u003c\/span\u003ePre-owned in fair condition. A few loose pages, but none are missing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp itemprop=\"name\" class=\"gr-h1 gr-h1--serif\"\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"name\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary\u003c\/strong\u003e: Searingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-until she loses power to the relentless scheming of her hypocritical son Porphyry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the great classic novels of Russian literature, The Golovlyov Family is a vivid picture of a condemned and isolated outpost of civilization that, for contemporary readers, will recall the otherwordly reality of Macondo in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"M.E. 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But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn’t commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding. As Roy’s time in prison passes, she is unable to hold on to the love that has been her center. 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Now, nine years later, he’s an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. 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She can feel the echoes of the books’ previous owners—an emotional fingerprint only she can read. When Ashlyn discovers a pair of beautifully bound volumes that appear to have never been published, her gift quickly becomes an obsession. Not only is each inscribed with a startling incrimination, but the authors, Hemi and Belle, tell conflicting sides of a tragic romance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith no trace of how these mysterious books came into the world, Ashlyn is caught up in a decades-old literary mystery, beckoned by two hearts in ruins, whoever they were, wherever they are. Determined to learn the truth behind the doomed lovers’ tale, she reads on, following a trail of broken promises and seemingly unforgivable betrayals. 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