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Origin: A Novel

by Diana Abu-Jaber

Published: 2007-06-25

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A fingerprint expert's investigation of a series of crib deaths leads her back to the mystery of her own childhood.Lena is a fingerprint expert at a crime lab in the small city of Syracuse, New York, where winters are cold and deep. Suddenly, a series of crib deaths—indistinguishable ...

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Original Cyn

by Sue Margolis

Published: 2005-04-26

Paperback: 367 pages

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From the acclaimed author of Breakfast at Stephanie's comes a hilarious new novel about falling in love, breaking the rules, and other sinful pleasures.A junior copywriter at a London ad agency, Cynthia Fishbein is the original good girl. She works hard, never complains, and takes care of ...

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The Original Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

Published: 2009-10-30

Paperback: 190 pages

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Frankenstein written by legendary author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, Frankenstein is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And...

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Original Sin (Vintage)

by P.D. James

Published: 2009-07-14

Paperback: 432 pages

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Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists.�Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices o...

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Orlando (Annotated): A Biography

by Virginia Woolf

Published: 2006-07-03

Paperback: 384 pages

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Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of b...

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Orlando (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Virginia Woolf

Published: 2000-09-28

Paperback: 336 pages

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* * * * Interesting,
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Orphan Masters Son

by Adam Johnson

Published: 2012-01-01

Paperback: 464 pages

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An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, "The Orphan Master's Son" follows a young man's journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world's most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother--a singer "stolen"...

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* * * Informative,
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The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel

by Adam Johnson

Published: 2012-01-10

Hardcover: 464 pages

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • LONGLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The Wall Street Journal • Los Angeles Times �...

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The Orphan Sister

by Gwendolen Gross

Published: 2011-07-05

Kindle Edition: 306 pages

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Clementine Lord is not an orphan. She just feels like one sometimes. One of triplets, a quirk of nature left her the odd one out. Odette and Olivia are identical; Clementine is a singleton. Biologically speaking, she came from her own egg. Practically speaking, she never quite left it. The...

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The Orphanmaster

by Jean Zimmerman

Published: 2012-06-19

Hardcover: 432 pages

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From a debut novelist, a gripping historical thriller and rousing love story set in seventeenth-century ManhattanIt's 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the myster...