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Goodnight Sunshine

by Mark Cameron

Published: 2015-11-25

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"A deftly crafted and skillfully written novel from beginning to end." - Midwest Book Review: Small Press Bookwatch, March 2016*** Longlisted for the inaugural Whistler Independent Book Awards ***Sleepwalking through life on a quiet island near Seattle, Oliver Bruce is struck twice in on...

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Dishing the Dirt: An Agatha Raisin Mystery (Agatha Raisin Mysteries)

by M. C. Beaton

Published: 2016-06-28

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When therapist Jill Davent moved to the village of Carsely, Agatha Raisin was not a fan. Not only was this therapist romancing Agatha's ex-husband but she dug up details of Agatha's not-too-glamorous origins. Jill also counsels a woman, Gwen Simple, that Agatha firmly believes assisted her...

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Blood, Bullets, and Bones: The Story of Forensic Science from Sherlock Holmes to DNA

by Bridget Heos

Published: 2016-10-04

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Blood, Bullets, and Bones provides young readers with a fresh and fascinating look at the ever-evolving science of forensics.Since the introduction of DNA testing, forensic science has been in the forefront of the public’s imagination, thanks especially to popular television shows like C...

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It's Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Clichés

by Orin Hargraves

Published: 2016-10-01

Paperback: 248 pages

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Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in our language?In It's Been Said Before, lexicographer Orin Hargraves examines the peculiar idea and power of the cliché. He helps readers und...

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The Bird Artist: A Novel

by Howard Norman

Published: 1995-03-15

Paperback: 304 pages

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Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murd...

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Isabel's Bed

by Elinor Lipman

Published: 1998-05-01

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When Harriet Mahoney first sees it, Isabel Krug's bed is covered with sheared sheep and littered with celebrity biographies. Unpublished, fortyish, and recently jilted, Harriet has fled Manhattan for Isabel's loudly elegant Cape Cod retreat, where she will ghostwrite The Isabel Krug Story, based on the...

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Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel

by Helen Fielding

Published: 1999-06-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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The iconic #1 bestseller by Helen Fielding; Bridget Jones is now the inspiration for the September 2016 Working Title film release of Bridget Jones's Baby, starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey and Emma Thompson.   Bridget Jones's Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, la...

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Dreams of My Russian Summers: A Novel

by Andreï Makine

Published: 2011-05-15

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Every summer, young Andrei visits his grandmother, Charlotte Lemmonier, whom he loves dearly. In a dusty village overlooking the vast Russian steppes, she captivates her grandson and the other children of the village with wondrous tales?watching Proust play tennis in Neuilly, Tsar Nicholas...

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The Last Unicorn (Deluxe Edition)

by Peter S Beagle

Published: 2007

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The Last Unicorn is one of the true classics of fantasy, ranking with Tolkien's The Hobbit, Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Beagle writes a shimmering prose-poetry, the voice of fairy tales and childhood: The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone....

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Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage

by Dani Shapiro

Published: 2017-04-11

Hardcover: 160 pages

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The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inqu...