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The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found

by Bart van Es

Published: 2018-08-14

Hardcover: 304 pages

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COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER“The hidden gem of the year . . . Sensational and gripping, and shedding light on some of the most urgent issues of our time, this was our unanimous winner.” —Judges of the 2018 Costa AwardThe extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holla...

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Taft

by Ann Patchett

Published: 2011-03-30

Kindle Edition: 290 pages

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Best-selling novelist Ann Patchett's second, "strikingly original"* novel tells the moving story of John Nickel, an ex-jazz musician who wanted nothing more than to be a good father. When his lover takes away his son, he's left only with his Beale Street, Memphis bar. He hires a you...

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The Optimist's Guide to Letting Go

by Amy E. Reichert

Published: 2018-05-15

Paperback: 352 pages

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Three generations. Seven days. One big secret. The author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake unfolds a mother-daughter story told by three women whose time to reckon with a life-altering secret is running out.Gina Zoberski wants to make it through one day without her fastidious mother, Lor...

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Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three American Women

by Elsa Walsh

Published: 1996-07-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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Despite the large number of books devoted to women's issues in the last twenty years, Washington Post  reporter Elsa Walsh felt that the literature was missing a crucial element--the voices of women themselves. Setting out to probe the myriad layers of women's lives and to illuminate the...

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72 RAISINS: A novel about fame, delusion, and indecent exposure

by Nikki Nash

Published: 2018-07-05

Kindle Edition: 239 pages

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Scott Mullan writes jokes for a living. He is a loving husband and a devoted dad, but with a looming milestone birthday, and a career that has stalled, he is searching for something new. Something exciting. Not a Corvette.When he’s introduced to the teachings of Ben Doss, a dynamic self-...

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Save the Date: A Novel

by Mary Kay Andrews

Published: 2015-05-05

Paperback: 464 pages

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Can this wedding be saved?Up-and-coming floral designer Cara Kryzik is about to score the wedding of a lifetime?one that will solidify her career as the go-to-girl for Savannah society nuptials. The only problem is, life seems to be conspiring against her. Cara's implacable father, "The Co...

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The Book of Names: A Novel

by Jill Gregory, Karen Tintori

Published: 2008-02-05

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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In each generation, there are thirty-six righteous souls who hold the world in fragile balance…When fifteen were killed, Mt. Vesuvius erupted.The elimination of eighteen triggered the Inquisition.Other deaths led to natural disasters across the globe—even world wars.Now that there a...

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The Clothes They Stood Up In

by Alan Bennett

Published: 2001-02-06

Hardcover: 161 pages

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The Ransomes had been burgled. "Robbed," Mrs. Ransome said. "Burgled," Mr. Ransome corrected. Premises were burgled; persons were robbed. Mr. Ransome was a solicitor by profession and thought words mattered. Though "burgled" was the wrong word too. Burglars select; they pick; they remove o...

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Bandbox (Harvest Book)

by Thomas Mallon

Published: 2005-01-10

Paperback: 320 pages

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"Cuddles Houlihan got clipped by the vodka bottle as it exited the pneumatic tube. . . ." With that bottle we enter Bandbox, a hugely successful magazine of the 1920s, run by bombastic Jehoshaphat "Joe" Harris. Harris's most ambitious protégé ("the bastard son he never had") has just def...

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Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

by Buddy Levy

Published: 2009-07-28

Paperback: 448 pages

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In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day. It was a moment unique in huma...