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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel

by Dominic Smith

Published: 2016-04-05

Hardcover: 304 pages

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"Written in prose so clear that we absorb its images as if by mind meld, "The Last Painting" is gorgeous storytelling: wry, playful, and utterly alive, with an almost tactile awareness of the emotional contours of the human heart. Vividly detailed, acutely sensitive to stratifications of g...

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Stop Here, This is the Place

by Susan Conley

Published: 2016-04-15

Hardcover: 112 pages

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Winky Lewis and Susan Conley, a photographer and a writer in Portland, tried an experiment. At the start of every week for a year, Winky sent Susan a photograph: of their children, of the street where they live as neighbors, and of other green places in Maine. By the end of that week Susan...

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Cocky Bastard

by Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland

Published: 2015-08-15

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From New York Times Bestsellers, Penelope Ward & Vi Keeland, comes a sexy new standalone novel.He was someone who belonged in my wildest fantasies instead of a rest stop in the middle of Nebraska.A sexy, cocky, Australian named Chance was the last person I expected to run into on my cross-...

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Old Yeller (Perennial Classics)

by Fred Gipson, Steven Polson

Published: 2009-12-01

Paperback: 144 pages

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When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an...

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Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Classics)

by Pema Chodron

Published: 2001-08-21

Paperback: 176 pages

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Start Where You Are is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön presents down-to-earth guidance on how we can "start where we are"—embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pe...

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Beatrice and Benedick

by Marina Fiorato

Published: 2015-12-08

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Hidden in the language of Shakespeare's best-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing are several clues to an intriguing tale. It seems that the witty lovers Beatrice and Benedick had a previous love affair that ended bitterly. But how did they meet? Why did they part? And what brought them ...

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The Water Museum: Stories

by Luis Alberto Urrea

Published: 2015-04-07

Hardcover: 272 pages

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NAMED NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Washington Post, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Kirkus Reviews, NPR, Men's JournalA new short story collection from Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The Hummingbird's Daughter and The Devil's Highway. From one of America's preeminent literary voices com...

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In the Clearing (Tracy Crosswhite Book 3)

by Robert Dugoni

Published: 2016-05-17

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Detective Tracy Crosswhite has a skill, and a soft spot, for tackling unsolved crimes. Having lost her own sister to murder at a young age, Tracy has dedicated her career to bringing justice and closure to the families and friends of victims of crime.So when Jenny, a former police academy ...

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The Throwaway Children

by Diney Costeloe

Published: 2016-05-01

Paperback: 496 pages

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Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage, not knowing that the papers she has signed will...

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Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America

by Kali Nicole Gross

Published: 2016-02-03

Hardcover: 232 pages

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Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the...