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The Unwanted

by John Saul

Published: 2010-11-10

Kindle Edition: 381 pages

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Cassie Winslow is sixteen.  She has just lost her mother in a terrible accident.  Now, lonely and frightened, she has come to live with the father she barely knows and his new family in tiny False Harbor on Cape Cod.  For Cassie, the strange, unsettling dreams that come to her sudden...

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Eleven Days (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Lea Carpenter

Published: 2014-03-11

Paperback: 288 pages

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An NPR Great Read of 2013This stunning debut novel opens in May 2011, when Sara’s son, Jason, has been missing for nine days following a Special Operations Forces mission that took place the same night as the bin Laden raid. Knowing nothing more about Jason’s fate than the reporters ca...

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The Alienist (TNT Tie-in Edition): A Novel

by Caleb Carr

Published: 2017-11-21

Paperback: 512 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES“A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.”—Entertainment Weekly “Caleb Carr’s rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the se...

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Not Being on a Boat

by Esmé Claire Keith

Published: 2011-10-01

Kindle Edition: 360 pages

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Rutledge, an aging, divorced man, has treated himself to a Cruise on the Mariola. The Cruise is not just any cruise. It's the whole shebang. It's around the world. It's a lifestyle change: G & Ts and tuxedos and cigars and cognac galore. The service is top-rate. And Rutledge's steward, Rao...

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The City And The Pillar

by Gore Vidal

Published: 1997-05-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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Jim Willard, former high-school athlete and clean-cut boy-next-door-, is haunted by the memory of a romanctic adolescent encounter with his friend Bob Ford. As Jim pursues his first love, in awe of the very same masculinity he possesses himself, his progresss through the secret gay world of 1940's America...

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The Charioteer: A Novel

by Mary Renault

Published: 2013-09-10

Kindle Edition: 352 pages

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Mary Renault’s landmark novel about a wounded soldier who returns from the front and must choose between relationships with two very different menAfter being wounded at Dunkirk in World War II, Laurie Odell is sent back home to a rural British hospital. Standing out among the orderlies i...

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The Boston Girl

by Anita Diamant

Published: 2015-08-04

Paperback: 400 pages

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When Addie Baum's 22-year old granddaughter asks her about her childhood, Addie realises the moment has come to relive the full history that shaped her. Addie Baum was a Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant Jewish parents who lived a very modest life. But Addie's intelligence and curiosity propelled...

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Down to This : Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown

by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall

Published: 2005

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Sunburn: A Novel

by Laura Lippman

Published: 2018-02-20

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Bustle, Popsugar, Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, Seattle Times, Book Riot, LitHub, BookPage, and Paperback Paris."Every time Laura Lippman comes out with a new book, I get chills because I know I am back in the hands of the mas...

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The Fenix Projects

by Katie Soy

Published: 2017-04-02

Hardcover: 248 pages

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A Seattle detective begins investigating the murder of a sex trafficking survivor in the care of a local nonprofit organization. He unknowingly launches a series of events that reveal founder and CEO Elizabeth Knight and her team are not who they say they are.   Elizabeth is forced to sta...