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Swamplandia!

by Karen Russell

Published: 2011-02-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves ("How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell's . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire."Los Angele...

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* * * Adventurous,
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Swamplandia! (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Karen Russell

Published: 2011-07-26

Paperback: 400 pages

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Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, h...

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The Swan House (The Swan House Series #1)

by Elizabeth Musser

Published: 2001-07-01

Paperback: 448 pages

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Mary Swan Middleton has always taken for granted the advantages of her family's wealth. But a tragedy that touches all of Atlanta sends her reeling in grief. When the family maid challenges her to reach out to the less fortunate as a way to ease her own pain, Mary Swan meets Carl--and ever...

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Swan Song

by Robert McCammon

Published: 1987-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 960 pages

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An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force that feeds on the dark desires of the countless followers he has gathered into his service. His only desire is to find a special child named Swan -- an...

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The Swan Thieves (Chinese Edition)

by Elizabeth Kostova

Published: 2010-08

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The Swan Thieves

by Elizabeth Kostova

Published: 2010-11-03

Paperback: 592 pages

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Andrew Marlow, a psychiatrist, has a perfectly ordered life--solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when the renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes Marlow's pati...

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The Swan Thieves: A Novel

by Elizabeth Kostova

Published: 2010-01-12

Hardcover: 0 pages

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Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand t...

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Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past, Volume One)

by Marcel Proust

Published: 2009-01-01

Paperback: 276 pages

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The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time," also known as "A Remembrance of Things Past," "Swann's Way" is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence as a sensitive and intuitive...

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Swapping Lives

by Jane Green

Published: 2007-05-29

Paperback: 416 pages

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What if a successful, single Londoner and a comfortable, Connecticut mother of two were to walk in each other?s shoes for a month? Vicky Townsley is the director of Poise! magazine and lives a glamorous London life. She has everything she wants?except marriage, children, and a house in the...

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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

by Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman

Published: 2009-06-02

Paperback: 206 pages

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A fascinating journey into the hidden psychological influences that derail our decision-making, Sway will change the way you think about the way you think.Why is it so difficult to sell a plummeting stock or end a doomed relationship? Why do we listen to advice just because it came from so...