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A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel

by Sigrid Nunez

Published: 2005-12-27

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A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworld...

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Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

by Kate Carroll de Gutes

Published: 2015-04-02

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The winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction and the Lambda Literary Award for memoir, these essays chronicle some of life's biggest dramas: marriage, divorce, and the quest for the perfect fashion accessory. On the surface, Kate Carroll de Gutes’ debut collection of essays considers...

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The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite

by David A. Kessler

Published: 2010-09-14

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Dr. David A. Kessler, the dynamic and controversial former FDA commissioner known for his crusade against the tobacco industry, is taking on another business that's making Americans sick: the food industry. In The End of Overeating, Dr. Kessler shows us how our brain chemistry has been hij...

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Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

by Jennifer Worth

Published: 2012-08-29

Paperback: 352 pages

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The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton Abbey Viewers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife i...

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Blessings: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

by Anna Quindlen

Published: 2003-08-19

Paperback: 237 pages

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Blessings, the bestselling novel by the author of Black and Blue, One True Thing, Object Lessons, and A Short Guide to a Happy Life, begins when, late at night, a teenage couple drives up to the estate owned by Lydia Blessing and leaves a box. In this instant, the world of the estate calle...

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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

by Jenny Lawson

Published: 2013-03-05

Paperback: 384 pages

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The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy.“Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah MagazineWhen Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically un...

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The Widow's Walk: A Novel

by Robert Barclay

Published: 2014-04-29

Paperback: 320 pages

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In the spirit of The Notebook and The Time Traveler’s Wife comes Robert Barclay’s haunting and romantic novel of passion, destiny, loss and an eternal love that will bring two people together across time.His name was Garrett Richmond and he had always wanted to live by the ocean. So wh...

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A Robot in the Garden

by Deborah Install

Published: 2016-05-10

Paperback: 320 pages

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For fans of THE ROSIE PROJECT and THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME, a broken man and his damaged robot build an unlikely friendship?with some assembly required. Ben's really great at failing at things?his job, being a husband, taking the garbage out. But then he finds a bat...

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Everybody's Fool: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Richard Russo

Published: 2017-01-24

Paperback: 544 pages

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National Bestseller and a New York Times 2016 Notable BookIn these pages, Richard Russo returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to unforgettable life in Nobody’s Fool. Now, ten years later, Doug Raymer has become the chief of police and is tormented by the improbable de...

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Off the Sidelines: Speak Up, Be Fearless, and Change Your World

by Kirsten Gillibrand

Published: 2015-04-28

Paperback: 224 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton Fourteen years before Kirsten Gillibrand succeeded Hillary Rodham Clinton as senator from New York, she heard her future mentor say these life-changing words: “Decisions are being made every day in Washington, and if you a...