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At the Bottom of the River (Plume)

by Jamaica Kincaid

Published: 1992-01-01

Mass Market Paperback: 96 pages

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A collection of short fiction by the author of Lucy features ten stories that reflect Kincaid's memories of her Caribbean childhood and its world of family, manners, and landscape. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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Single Chicas (Volume 1)

by Sandra Lopez

Published: 2016-12-07

Paperback: 182 pages

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Single Chicas is a collection of stories about modern Latinas being in, out, and around the zany hurdles of relationships. One woman receives strange calls from a lonely soul, another seeks advice on how to love herself, and another wakes up in a parallel universe to a man she's never met. These chicas...

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Sleeping Beauties: A Novel

by Stephen King, Owen King

Published: 2017-09-26

Hardcover: 720 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep...

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Under a War-Torn Sky

by L. M. Elliott

Published: 2003-04-28

Paperback: 288 pages

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When Henry Forester is shot down during a bombing run over France,the World War II pilot finds himself trapped behind enemy lines. In constant danger of discovery by German soldiers, Henry begins a remarkable journey to freedom. Relying on the kindness of strangers, Henry moves from town t...

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Too Loud a Solitude

by Bohumil Hrabal

Published: 1992-04-27

Paperback: 112 pages

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Hantá rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls “our very best writer today,” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word. Translated by Michael Henry Heim.

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Gone to Dust: A Novel

by Matt Goldman

Published: 2017-08-15

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Set in Minnesota, Gone to Dust is the debut private eye murder mystery from Emmy Award-winning Seinfeld writer Matt Goldman.“Sharp wit, complex characters, and masterful plotting makes Goldman a writer to watch. Irreverent and insightful, private detective Nils Shapiro is sure to become ...

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The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light

by Paul Bogard

Published: 2014-07-22

Paperback: 352 pages

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The "terrific ... moving, poetic, immersive, multifaceted, and thought-provoking" book (Publishers Weekly) that will open your eyes to the night.A brilliantly starry night is one of nature's most thrilling wonders. Yet in our world of nights as bright as day, most of us no longer experienc...

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Mr. Bossy

by Danika Dare, R.K. Lilley

Published: 2016-12-19

Kindle Edition: 90 pages

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It had been such a simple idea. Help the hot billionaire make his cheating ex jealous. And he wasn’t just any billionaire. He was a filthy-talking Russian who was bossy as hell, gorgeous as sin, and wouldn’t take no for an answer. And he was paying well. Thirty thousand dollars, ...

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No Sacred Cows: Investigating Myths, Cults, and the Supernatural

by David G. McAfee

Published: 2017-08-22

Paperback: 448 pages

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While belief in religious supernatural claims is waning throughout the West, evidence suggests belief in nonreligious supernatural claims is on the rise. What explains this contradiction? How can a society with a falling belief in God have a rising belief in ghosts, psychic powers, ancient astronauts,...

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Lucky Dog: How Being a Veterinarian Saved My Life

by Sarah Boston

Published: 2014-06-10

Paperback: 288 pages

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What happens when a veterinary surgical oncologist (laymen’s term: cancer surgery doctor) thinks she has cancer herself? Enter Sarah Boston: a vet who suspects a suspicious growth in her neck is thyroid cancer. From the moment she uses her husband’s portable ultrasound machine to inves...