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Wigtown Ploughman: Part of His Life

by John McNeillie

Published: 2012-10-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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In following the growth into manhood of young Andy Walker, this novel provides a realistic depiction of the lives and living conditions of the rural laboring poor in Scotland in the 1930s. The son of an abusive father, Andy leaves school at age 13 and works for a succession of corrupt and ...

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Influence

by Carl Weber

Published: 2018-08-28

Hardcover: 288 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Family Business crime series comes a deliciously provocative legal page-turner about the Hudson family.When famed attorney Bradley Hudson learns of his youngest son Langston’s arrest for drug trafficking, he immediately assembles a tea...

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Cafe Nevo

by Barbara Rogan

Published: 1987-05-01

Hardcover: 309 pages

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Vered begins an affair with a Palestinian in hopes of freeing herself from her husband, Peter Caspi, a famous Israeli author

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Morality Play

by Barry Unsworth

Published: 1995-10-01

Hardcover: 206 pages

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Barry Unsworth, author of the Booker Prize-winnings Sacred  Hunger, turns to 14th-century England with a novel of foul doings in the time of The Name of the Rose.In Morality Play, Barry Unsworth, indisputably the finest writer of literate historical fiction alive today, brings 14th-centu...

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Sweet Sorrow: the highly-anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of ONE DAY

by David Nicholls

Published: 2019-07-11

Hardcover: 400 pages

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One life-changing summerSixteen-year-old Charlie meets Fran...Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future ...

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Shadowplay

by Joseph O'Connor

Published: 2019-06-06

Hardcover: 320 pages

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'Joseph O’Connor is a very great artist and storyteller. The quotient of enjoyment in his extraordinary new novel is stupendous' Sebastian Barry1878: The Lyceum Theatre, London. Three extraordinary people begin their life together, a life that will be full of drama, transformation, passi...

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Beneath the Surface

by John Hargrove

Published: 2016-04-19

Paperback: 296 pages

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*Now a New York Times Best Seller*Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepene...

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Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club): (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Leo Tolstoy

Published: 2004-05-31

Kindle Edition: 872 pages

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The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious An...

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Another Place You've Never Been: A Novel

by Rebecca Kauffman

Published: 2017-09-12

Paperback: 256 pages

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Long-listed for the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "A wonderful debut . . . Undeniably moving and emotionally true." ?Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) Most of us have experienced what it’s like to know what someone is going to say right before they say it. Or perha...

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The Ash Family: A Novel

by Molly Dektar

Published: 2019-04-09

Hardcover: 352 pages

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When a young woman leaves her family—and the civilized world—to join an off-the-grid community headed by an enigmatic leader, she discovers that belonging comes with a deadly cost, in this lush and searing debut novel.At nineteen, Berie encounters a seductive and mysterious man at a bu...