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The Book Borrower: A Novel (P.S.)

by Alice Mattison

Published: 2008-09-16

Paperback: 304 pages

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On the day they first meet in a city playground, Deborah Laidlaw lends Toby Ruben a book called Trolley Girl, the memoir of a forgotten trolley strike in the 1920s, written by the sister of a fiery Jewish revolutionary who played an important, ultimately tragic role in the events. Young mo...

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Four Letters of Love

by Niall Williams

Published: 1998-11-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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A tale of destiny, acceptance, & the tragedies & miracles of everyday life.

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Dreaming Water

by Gail Tsukiyama

Published: 2003-05-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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Bestselling author Gail Tsukiyama is known for her poignant, subtle insights into the most complicated of relationships. Dreaming Water is an exploration of two of the richest and most layered human connections that exist: mother and daughter and lifelong friends.Hana is suffering from We...

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Black Widow (Doc Ford)

by Randy Wayne White

Published: 2009-03-03

Paperback: 496 pages

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A cult of death. A weapon of apocalyptic horror. Juan Cabrillo must stop them both. THE ?FASCINATING?( BOOKLIST) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSome women you love. Some women you hate. Some women you survive.Doc Ford is drawn into a deadly battle when his goddaughter Shay is blackmailed. Someon...

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What I Loved: A Novel

by Siri Hustvedt

Published: 2004-03-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys the work; tracks down the artist, Bill Wechsler; and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. Leo's story, whic...

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2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas

by Marie-Helene Bertino

Published: 2014-08-05

Hardcover: 272 pages

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An enchanting and staggeringly original debut novel about one day in the lives of three unforgettable characters  Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, rebellious nine-year-old who also happens to be an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the recent death of her mother, and caring for ...

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Through the Looking-Glass (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Lewis Carroll

Published: 1999-05-14

Paperback: 128 pages

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The 1872 sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll's inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and queens, and becomes a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

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Murder on Maryland's Eastern Shore: Race, Politics and the Case of Orphan Jones

by Joseph E. Moore

Published: 2006-02-17

Paperback: 256 pages

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This fascinating new book reveals in stunning detail the case of Euel Lee (alias Orphan Jones), who was accused and eventually convicted of murdering a family of four in Eastern Maryland in the 1930s. The tumultuous series of events and characters that surrounded the crime and roller coas...

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Crossings

by Stephanie L. Fowler

Published: 2008-05-15

Hardcover: 297 pages

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A House in the Sky: A Memoir

by Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett

Published: 2014-06-17

Paperback: 400 pages

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BREAKING NEWS: Amanda Lindhout’s lead kidnapper, Ali Omar Ader, has been caught.Amanda Lindhout wrote about her fifteen month abduction in Somalia in A House in the Sky. It is the New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places an...