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The Women in the Castle: A Novel

by Jessica Shattuck

Published: 2017-03-28

Hardcover: 368 pages

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGoodReads Choice Awards Semifinalist "Moving . . . a plot that surprises and devastates."—New York Times Book Review"A masterful epic."—People magazine"Mesmerizing . . . The Women in the Castle stands tall among the literature that reveals new truths...

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Little Deaths: A Novel

by Emma Flint

Published: 2017-01-17

Hardcover: 320 pages

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017 "Riveting."---People magazine It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone--a single mother who works long hours as a co...

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Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel

by Dan Slater

Published: 2016-09-13

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Chicago Public Library’s Best Books of 2016The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable.What’s it like to be an employee of a global drug-trafficking organizatio...

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The Gilded Curse

by Marilyn Turk

Published: 2016-03-14

Paperback: 258 pages

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January, 1942 After her brother is killed at Pearl Harbor, Lexie Smithfield returns to Jekyll Island to handle the disposition of Destiny, the family's impressive vacation cottage. Ten years before, the family quit coming to the exclusive Millionaire's Club after a series of freak acciden...

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Come into the Water: A Survivor's Story

by Merlyn Janet Magner

Published: 2011-04-15

Paperback: 170 pages

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Rapid City, South Dakota, June 9, 1972 ...238 people died, 5 are still missing. In the midst of one of the worst floods in the history of the United States, one young woman clung to the roof of a house, desperately holding on to the vestiges of her life. At the same time, the massive flood surging down...

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In Bitter Chill: A Mystery (Inspector Francis Sadler)

by Sarah Ward

Published: 2015-09-29

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The deepest secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves in this richly atmospheric, compellingly written, and expertly constructed crime debut from an emerging talent.Derbyshire, 1978: a small town in the idyllic English countryside is traumatized by the kidnapping of two young schoolgirls...

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McNally's Secret

by Lawrence Sanders

Published: 1992-01-16

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In the sunny socialite haven of Palm Beach, playboy/sleuth McNally encountersmurder, romance, and a shocking secret too close for comfort.

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Male Anorexia Nervosa: A Mother and Son's Journey

by Jon Sestak, Lynn Sestak

Published: 2016-11-07

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This book deals with the physical, psychological, and social aspects of male anorexia nervosa before, during, and after treatment from the perspectives of a college age young man, Jon, struck with the disease, his mother, eating disorder specialist Michelle Micsko, PhD., and Jon's sister and dad. The...

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The Innocents Abroad (Wordsworth Classics)

by Mark Twain

Published: 2010-04-15

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With an Introduction by Stuart Hutchinson. Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party? So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe and the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad, a book so funny and provocative...

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The Magnificent Mountain Women (Second Edition): Adventures in the Colorado Rockies

by Janet Robertson

Published: 2003-10-01

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Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid–nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. Janet Robertson recounts t...