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The Secret Garden (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Published: 2005-09-01

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The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the...

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The Death of Sweet Mister: A Novel

by Daniel Woodrell

Published: 2012-04-24

Paperback: 208 pages

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Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him--she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and...

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Hard Time (V.I. Warshawski Novels)

by Sara Paretsky

Published: 2000-09-12

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Among the first, and perhaps the most compelling, female private investigators of contemporary fiction, Sara Paretsky's incomparable character V. I. Warshawski at last returns to the page in her first full-length appearance since 1994's Tunnel Vision. Hard Time is the work of a master--a r...

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Surrender, New York: A Novel

by Caleb Carr

Published: 2016-08-23

Hardcover: 608 pages

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Caleb Carr, bestselling author of The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness, has created a contemporary psychological thriller haunted by the shadowy hands of established power.In rural, impoverished Burgoyne County, New York, a pattern of strange deaths begins to emerge: adolescent boys a...

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Acqua Alta: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

by Donna Leon

Published: 2013-04-23

Paperback: 304 pages

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In Leon's fifth Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, the beating of renowned art historian Dotoressa Brett Lynch draws the contemporary Venetian police detective out of his warm and loving home and into the yearly onslaught of acqua alta, the torrential winter rains.Brett, an American who s...

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The Accidental Pope: A Novel

by Ray Flynn, Robin Moore

Published: 2001-12-17

Paperback: 400 pages

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The former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican and the bestselling author of The French Connection join forces to write an unforgettable novel about a humble fisherman who is elected pope.

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Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel

by Robert Gipe

Published: 2015-11-20

Paperback: 336 pages

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Winner of the 2015 Weatherford Award in FictionFinalist, Judy Gaines Young Book AwardDawn Jewell is fifteen. She is restless, curious, and wry. She listens to Black Flag, speaks her mind, and joins her grandmother’s fight against mountaintop removal mining almost in spite of herself. “...

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Harmony

by Carolyn Parkhurst

Published: 2016-08-02

Hardcover: 288 pages

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"[A] provocative page-turner." —People“In Parkhurst’s deft treatment, Harmony becomes a story of our time. . . Parkhurst cements herself as a writer capable of astonishing humanity and exquisite prose.” —Washington Post“Gorgeously written and patently original.” —Jodi Pico...

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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (The Inheritance Trilogy)

by N. K. Jemisin

Published: 2010-10-01

Mass Market Paperback: 425 pages

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Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine ...

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Shift

by Hugh Howey

Published: 2016-03-22

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In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the ...