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Orchard: A Novel

by Larry Watson

Published: 2004-06-08

Paperback: 256 pages

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From the bestselling author of Montana 1948 comes the explosive story of an artist, his muse, and the staggering price they pay for their chance at immortality. Sonja Skordahl, a Norwegian immigrant, came to America looking for a new life. Instead, she settled in Door County, Wisconsin, an...

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The Orchard: A Novel

by Jeffrey Stepakoff

Published: 2011-07-05

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The passionate new novel by the author of FIREWORKS OVER TOCCOA. Grace Lyndon is a rising ingenue in the world of perfumes and flavors; a stiletto-wearing, work-a-holic in Atlanta, she develops aromas and tastes to enthrall the senses. Dylan Jackson is a widowed single father whose heart ...

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The Orchardist: A Novel (P.S.)

by Amanda Coplin

Published: 2012-08-21

Kindle Edition: 579 pages

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At once intimate and epic, The Orchardist is historical fiction at its best, in the grand literary tradition of William Faulkner, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, and Toni Morrison.In her stunningly original and haunting debut novel, Amanda Coplin evokes a powerful sense...

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* * * * Romantic,
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The Orchid House: A Novel

by Lucinda Riley

Published: 2012-02-14

Kindle Edition: 464 pages

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Spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from the Wharton Park estate in England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist and the aristocratic Crawford family, whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences.As a child, concert pianis...

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The Orchid Thief

by Susan Orlean

Published: 2000-01-04

Paperback: 320 pages

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The orchid thief is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy in spite of the fact that he is missing all his teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. This national bestseller follows him into the Florida swamp to relate his mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession....

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The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

by Linda Colley

Published: 2008-11-11

Paperback: 420 pages

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In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a radically transforming world.Marsh was conceived in...

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An Order of Amelie, Hold the Fries

by Nina Schindler

Published: 2004-09-04

Paperback: 136 pages

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An ultra-modern teen love story. Seventeen-year-old Tim is smitten when he glimpses the girl of his dreams. But who is she? When her name and address falls from her bag, he can't believe his luck. Tim boldly writes to his fantasy woman. But to his surprise, the address belongs to som...

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Ordinary Heroes

by Scott Turow

Published: 2011-04-05

Paperback: 496 pages

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Stewart Dubinsky knew his father, David, had served in World War II, but had been told very little about his experiences. When he finds, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee and learns of David's court-martial, Stewart is driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic,...

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Ordinary Life: Stories (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Elizabeth Berg

Published: 2003-05-13

Paperback: 192 pages

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In this superb collection of short stories, Elizabeth Berg takes us into remarkable moments in the lives of women, when memories and events come together to create a sense of coherence, understanding, and change. In ?Ordinary Life,? Mavis McPherson locks herself in the bathroom for a week,...

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Ordinary Love and Good Will

by Jane Smiley

Published: 2007-10-09

Paperback: 210 pages

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From Jane Smiley, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres: a pair of novellas chronicling difficult choices that reshape the dynamics of two very different families.In Ordinary Love, Smiley focuses on a woman's infidelity and the lasting, indelible effects it leaves on ...