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Shantaram

by Gregory David Roberts

Published: 2005-10-01

Paperback: 944 pages

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"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary...

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by Charles Brandt

Published: 2005-05-24

Paperback: 309 pages

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"I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt...

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Betty Smith

Published: 2006-05-30

Paperback: 528 pages

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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and str...

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NAKED 10: Erotic Stories (NAKED Collection #2) (NAKED Series)

by Kendall Swan

Published: 2012-02-15

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WARNING: EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT. MATURE READERS ONLY. This collection includes 10 of Kendall Swan's most successful erotic short stories from her popular NAKED series. Over 20,000 copies have been sold of Kendall's stories. Get hot and bothered by yourself or with a lover as you read these steamy...

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The Light Between Oceans

by M. L. Stedman

Published: 2012-07-31

Hardcover: 345 pages

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The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg’s Dreamworks that is “irresistible…seductive…with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page” (O, The Oprah Magazine).After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom...

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by M. L. Stedman

Published: 2012-07-31

Hardcover: 345 pages

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The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg’s Dreamworks that is “irresistible…seductive…with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page” (O, The Oprah Magazine).After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom...

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The Tipping Point

by Malcolm Gladwell

Published: 2006

Paperback: 280 pages

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The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or...

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The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic (P.S.)

by Hazel Gaynor

Published: 2014-04-01

Paperback: 362 pages

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Inspired by true events, the New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS Titanic—a seamless blend of fact and fiction that explores the tragedy's impact and its lasting repercussions on survivors and their descend...

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Oddly Normal: One Family's Struggle to Help Their Teenage Son Come to Terms with His Sexuality

by John Schwartz

Published: 2012-11-08

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A heartfelt memoir by the father of a gay teen, and an eye-opening story for families who hope to bring up well-adjusted gay adults. Three years ago, John Schwartz, a national correspondent at The New York Times, got the call that every parent hopes never to receive: his thirteen-year-old ...

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Jaden Baker

by Courtney Kirchoff

Published: 2011-03-16

Paperback: 446 pages

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Jaden Baker is unique, talented, special. And for a while there, things were looking up. Adopted by an upper-middle class couple of suburbia, Jaden believed he'd finally gotten that second chance everyone raves about. It came with potato salad. But something happened. Something always happens....