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A Matter of Chance: A Novel

by Julie Maloney

Published: 2018-04-10

Paperback: 368 pages

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When eight-year-old Vinni Stewart disappears from a Jersey shore town, Maddy, her distraught single mother, begins a desperate search for her daughter. Maddy’s five-year journey leads her to a bakery in Brooklyn, where she stumbles upon something terrifying. Ultimately, her artist neighb...

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Synod

by Dan C. Gunderman

Published: 2018-01-09

Paperback: 398 pages

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The year is 1829. The gruff, self-reliant Goldfinch, a veteran of the War of 1812, has become the anointed leader of an idyllic religious community named Synod, nestled in the Ramapough Mountains of northern New Jersey. Thanks to the advice of the village's Founders, Synod will become a stop on what...

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A Short History of the Girl Next Door

by Jared Reck

Published: 2017-09-26

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Get your tissues ready for this unrequited love story that’s equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking and will appeal to fans of Jennifer Niven, John Green, and Jesse Andrews.   Seriously, how can you see a person nearly every day of your life and never think a thing of it, then all of a...

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The Punishment She Deserves: A Lynley Novel

by Elizabeth George

Published: 2018-03-20

Hardcover: 704 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDetective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are forced to confront the past as they try to solve a crime that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of a quiet, historic medieval town in EnglandThe cozy, bucolic town of Ludlow is stunne...

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The Bletchley Girls

by Tessa Dunlop

Published: 2015-11-03

Paperback: 352 pages

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'Lively...in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women's own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service' New Statesman'Dunlop is engaging in her personal approach. Her obvious feminine empathy with the venerable ladies she spoke to gives her book an immediacy and intimacy....

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The Deceivers (A John Wells Novel)

by Alex Berenson

Published: 2018-02-06

Hardcover: 448 pages

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInterfering with the presidential election was just the first step.The Russians don't just want to influence American elections--they want it all. Former CIA agent John Wells confronts a plot of astonishing audacity as New York Times-bestselling author Alex Ber...

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* * * * Difficult,
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After Anna

by Lisa Scottoline

Published: 2018-04-10

Kindle Edition: 400 pages

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Riveting and disquieting, After Anna is a groundbreaking domestic thriller, as well as a novel of emotional justice and legal intrigue. New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline keeps readers on their toes until the final shocking page.Nobody cuts deeper than family...Dr. Noah Alde...

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A Short History of a Small Place

by T. R. Pearson

Published: 2003-09-30

Paperback: 384 pages

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Marvelously funny, bittersweet, and beautifully evocative, the original publication of A Short History of a Small Place announced the arrival of one of our great Southern voices. Although T. R. Pearson's Neely, North Carolina, doesn't appear on any map of the state, it has already earned a...

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John Henry Days

by Colson Whitehead

Published: 2002-05-14

Paperback: 385 pages

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground RailroadColson Whitehead’s triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it’s the st...

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The Only Dance There Is: Talks at the Menninger Foundation, 1970, and Spring Grove Hospital, 1972 (Doubleday Anchor Original)

by Ram Dass

Published: 1974-04-05

Paperback: 192 pages

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This book is based on talks by Ram Dass at the Menninger Foundation in 1970 and at the Spring Grove Hospital in Maryland in 1972. The text grew out of the interaction between Ram Dass and the spiritual seekers in attendance at these talks. The result of this unique exchange is a useful gui...