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The Dressmaker's Dowry: A Novel

by Meredith Jaeger

Published: 2017-02-07

Paperback: 384 pages

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For readers of Lucinda Riley, Sarah Jio, or Susan Meissner, this gripping historical debut novel tells the story of two women: one, an immigrant seamstress who disappears from San Francisco’s gritty streets in 1876, and the other, a young woman in present day who must delve into the secr...

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All at Sea: A Memoir

by Decca Aitkenhead

Published: 2016-08-16

Hardcover: 240 pages

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All at Sea is a remarkable story of love and loss, of how one couple changed each other’s life, and of what a sudden death can do to the people who survive.  On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead’s life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was p...

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At the End of the World: A True Story of Murder in the Arctic

by Lawrence Millman

Published: 2017-01-17

Hardcover: 208 pages

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At the End of the World is the remarkable story of a series of murders that occurred in an extremely remote corner of the Arctic in 1941. Those murders show that senseless violence in the name of religion is not only a contemporary phenomenon, and that a people as seemingly peaceful ...

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The Book of Virtues

by William J. Bennett

Published: 1996-09-05

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Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find the...

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Anyone But You (Mira Hardbacks)

by Jennifer Crusie

Published: 2006-01-01

Hardcover: 224 pages

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For Nina Askew, turning 40 means freedom from her ex-husband and their stuffy suburban home, freedom to have her own apartment in the city and freedom to focus on what she wants for a change.

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False Memory: A Novel

by Dean Koontz

Published: 2012-06-26

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   No fan of Dean Koontz or of psychological suspense will want to miss this extraordinary novel of the human mind’s capacity to torment—and destroy—itself.   It’s a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifyin...

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The Cheer Leader

by Jill McCorkle

Published: 2016-07-05

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Jo Spencer is a girl who knows what to be and how to be it?straight-A student, cheerleader, May Queen, popular and cute and virginal, and in perfect control. But halfway through her first year in college in the early '70s, her carefully normal life explodes and she comes completely undone....

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Plant Life

by Pamela Duncan

Published: 2004-04-27

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Her luminous first novel, Moon Women, won the hearts of both readers and critics, who called it “richly textured...a pleasure to be savored by a writer to watch.” (Kirkus Reviews) Now Pamela Duncan returns to the rich landscape of the human heart with a lush, resonant novel about mothe...

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Old Friends

by Tracy Kidder

Published: 1994-09-06

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Now in paperback, the national bestseller on growing old. Tracy Kidder has won the Pulitzer Prize and countless other awards for his bestselling studies of ordinary life. Now he confronts his most important and universal theme in this personal study of old age in America.

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Radiance: A Novel

by Catherynne M. Valente

Published: 2016-10-18

Paperback: 432 pages

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Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood-and solar system-very different from our own, from Catherynne M. Valente, the phenomenal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.Severin...