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"In this witty and meditative exploration, award-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Alan Burdick takes readers on a personal quest to understand how time gets in us and why we perceive it the way we do. In the company of scientists, he visits the most accurate clock in the world (which exists only on paper); discovers that "now" actually happened a split-second ago; finds a twenty-fifth hour in the day; lives in the Arctic to lose all sense...
5) His guilt
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Amish of Hart County volume 2
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Center Point Large Print
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English
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"Two years ago, Mark Fisher left his Amish community in Hart County after being wrongly accused of assault. When he has returns to help an old friend, attacks on women begin. Mark is the obvious suspect, but one woman, Waneta Cain, stands behind him. Markfears he may know the real culprit and plans to keep Waneta safe"-- Publisher.
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Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert, hopes to escape from public attention by lecturing on a brand-new cruise ship--the Queen Charlotte. On board she meets eighty-six-year-old Lady Emily Haywood, "Lady Em," as she is known throughout the world. Immensely wealthy, Lady Em is the owner of a priceless emerald necklace that she intends to leave to the Smithsonian...
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A small village in 1850s rural Ireland is mystified by what appears to be a miracle but may actually be murder. An English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle - a girl said to have survived without food for months - soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life.
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