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Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language

by Emma Byrne

Published: 2018-01-23

Hardcover: 240 pages

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An irreverent and impeccably researched defense of our dirtiest words.We’re often told that swearing is outrageous or even offensive, that it’s a sign of a stunted vocabulary or a limited intellect. Dictionaries have traditionally omitted it and parents forbid it. But the latest resear...

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What Remains True: A Novel

by Janis Thomas

Published: 2017-12-01

Paperback: 348 pages

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In this mesmerizing drama, one life-altering event catapults a family into turmoil, revealing secrets that may leave them fractured forever . . . or bind them together tighter than ever before.From the outside, the Davenports look like any other family living a completely ordinary life—u...

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The Seventh Function of Language: A Novel

by Laurent Binet

Published: 2017-08-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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From the prizewinning author of HHhH, “the most insolent novel of the year” (L’Express) is a romp through the French intelligentsia of the twentieth century.Paris, 1980. The literary critic Roland Barthes dies?struck by a laundry van?after lunch with the presidential candidate Franç...

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Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59)

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it." --Ann Patchett "A heartbreakingly resonant new novel about race and justice in America" --USA TodayWhen it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own...

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The Floating World: A Novel

by C. Morgan Babst

Published: 2017-10-17

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICENamed a BEST BOOK OF 2017 by Amazon, Kirkus, Bustle, Southern Living, the Dallas Morning News, and Largehearted Boy"Set in New Orleans, this important and powerful novel follows the Boisdoré family . . . in the months after Katrina. A profound,...

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The Sittaford Mystery (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection (Paperback))

by Agatha Christie

Published: 2012-03-13

Paperback: 288 pages

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The Sittaford Mystery is Dame Agatha at her most intriguing, as a séance in a snowbound house predicts a particularly grisly murder.In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling messa...

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Winter's Tale

by Mark Helprin

Published: 2005-06-01

Paperback: 768 pages

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Now a major motion pictureNew York Times bestseller"Utterly extraordinary . . . A piercing sense of the beautiful arising from narrative and emotional fantasy is everywhere alive in the novel . . . Not for some time have I read a work as funny, thoughtful, passionate or large-souled . . . ...

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Find Her (Detective D. D. Warren)

by Lisa Gardner

Published: 2016-10-18

Paperback: 464 pages

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Lisa Gardner's runaway New York Times bestseller—a fast-paced thrill ride featuring Detective D. D. Warren.Seven years ago, carefree college student Flora Dane was kidnapped while on spring break. For 472 days, Flora learned just how much one person can endure.Miraculously alive after he...

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Crave: The Seduction of Snow White

by Cathy Yardley

Published: 2013-03-26

Paperback: 272 pages

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When a woman is ripe for the picking . . .Beth Cordova's life is no fairy tale. Having barely escaped the evil grasp of her wicked stepmother, this "missing princess" seeks refuge in a strict commune where carnal pleasures are forbidden.Sometimes just one bite of the apple . . .Her world i...

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Somebody with a Little Hammer: Essays

by Mary Gaitskill

Published: 2017-04-04

Hardcover: 288 pages

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From one of the most singular presences in American fiction comes a searingly intelligent book of essays on matters literary, social, cultural, and personal. Whether she’s writing about date rape or political adultery or writers from John Updike to Gillian Flynn, Mary Gaitskill reads her...