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CLEO: The Cat Who Mended a Family

by Helen Brown

Published: 2010-09-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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"We're just going to look." Helen Brown had no intention of adopting a pet when she brought her sons, Sam and Rob, to visit a friend's new kittens. But the runt of the litter was irresistible, with her overlarge ears and dainty chin.When Cleo was delivered weeks later, she had no way of kn...

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Pereira Maintains (New Directions Paperbook)

by Antonio Tabucchi

Published: 2017-02-28

Paperback: 140 pages

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Tabucchi’s masterpiece “conjures a state between waking and dreaming” (The New York Times) Dr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer w...

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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

by Kate Bowler

Published: 2018-02-06

Hardcover: 208 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi“Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subjec...

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Hardcore Twenty-Four: A Stephanie Plum Novel

by Janet Evanovich

Published: 2017-11-14

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Janet Evanovich’s #1 New York Times bestselling sensation Stephanie Plum returns in her twenty-forth thriller as mutilated corpses litter the streets of New Jersey... Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, professional grave robber and semi-professional loon, Simon Digg...

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Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life

by Irwin Kula, Linda Loewenthal

Published: 2007-09-18

Paperback: 336 pages

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Winner of the Books for a Better Life Award Chosen as one of "The 10 Best Spiritual Books of 2006" by Spirituality and Health magazine Rabbi Irwin Kula explores desire in spiritual life. Rather than leading us astray, our longings are gateways to self discovery. Our yearnings, once underst...

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In the Penal Colony

by Franz Kafka

Published: 2014-08-25

Paperback: 30 pages

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"In the Penal Colony" ("In der Strafkolonie") (also translated as "In the Penal Settlement") is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919. The story is set in an unnamed penal colony. Internal clues and the setting on...

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Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)

by Franz Kafka

Published: 2016-05-09

Kindle Edition: 302 pages

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This carefully crafted ebook is formatted with a functional and detailed table of contents.Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories, regarded by critics as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Kafka strongly infl...

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The Diary of Mattie Spenser: A Novel

by Sandra Dallas

Published: 1998-05-15

Kindle Edition: 242 pages

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No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colorado frontier. Mattie's only company is a slightly mysteri...

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Pursuit   [PURSUIT] [Mass Market Paperback]

by Karen Robards

Published: 2010

Paperback: 392 pages

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Three Things About Elsie: A Novel

by Joanna Cannon

Published: 2018-08-07

Kindle Edition: 384 pages

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The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel “infused with warmth and humor” (People) about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret, and the small acts of kindness that bring people together.There are three thin...