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A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile

by Agate Nesaule

Published: 1997-01-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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"Shows us, in disturbing but illuminating detail, how violence and cruelty register on the psyche. This beautifully written book makes us reckon anew with the deep costs of war."—Eva Hoffman.

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The House Of Splendid Isolation

by Edna O'Brien

Published: 1995-04-03

Paperback: 224 pages

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Masterful novel by the bestselling writer, with a controversial story marrying the worlds of a political terrorist and a loveless widowJosie, the ailing, elderly inhabitant of an Irish country mansion, dwells in the shadowy world of remembered pain and loneliness. McGreevy, the terrorist, reintroduces...

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All Over Creation: A Novel

by Ruth Ozeki

Published: 2004-03-30

Paperback: 432 pages

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A warm and witty saga about agribusiness, environmental activism, and community—from the celebrated author of My Year of Meats and A Tale for the Time BeingYumi Fuller hasn’t set foot in her hometown of Liberty Falls, Idaho—heart of the potato-farming industry—since she ran away at...

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The Best American Short Stories 2016 (The Best American Series ®)

Published: 2016-10-04

Paperback: 336 pages

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“The literary ‘Oscars’ features twenty outstanding examples of the best of the best in American short stories.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers The Best American Short Stories 2016 will be selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz. He brings "one of the most distinctive and mag...

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The Collected Stories (FSG Classics)

by Grace Paley

Published: 2007-04-03

Paperback: 400 pages

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This reissue of Grace Paley's classic collection?a finalist for the National Book Award?demonstrates her rich use of language as well as her extraordinary insight into and compassion for her characters, moving from the hilarious to the tragic and back again. Whether writing about the love ...

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None of Us the Same (Sweet Wine of Youth) (Volume 1)

by Jeffrey K. Walker

Published: 2017-05-16

Paperback: 286 pages

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Fiery Deirdre Brannigan had opinions on everything. She certainly hated the very idea of war in 1914. Childhood pals Jack Oakley and Will Parsons thought it a grand adventure with their friends. But the crushing weight of her guilty conscience pushes Deirdre to leave Ireland and land directly in the...

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Two Nights: A Novel

by Kathy Reichs

Published: 2017-07-11

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The Welcome Home Diner: A Novel

by Peggy Lampman

Published: 2017-10-10

Paperback: 352 pages

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Betting on the city of Detroit’s eventual comeback, cousins Addie and Samantha decide to risk it all on an affordable new house and a culinary career that starts with renovating a vintage diner in a depressed area of town. There’s just one little snag in their vision.Angus, a weary, be...

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Custer

by Larry McMurtry

Published: 2013-10-22

Paperback: 192 pages

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This lavishly illustrated volume reassesses and celebrates the life and legacy of the West’s most legendary figure, George Armstrong Custer, from “one of America’s great storytellers” (The Wall Street Journal).ON JUNE 25, 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry at...

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The Sorbonne Affair: A Hugo Marston Novel

by Mark Pryor

Published: 2017-08-22

Paperback: 287 pages

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Someone is spying on American author Helen Hancock. While in Paris to conduct research and teach a small class of writers, she discovers a spy camera hidden in her room at the Sorbonne Hotel. She notifies the US Embassy, and former FBI profiler Hugo Marston is dispatched to investigate. Al...