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Broken Field: A Novel

by Jeff Hull

Published: 2018-10-16

Hardcover: 360 pages

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Told from the perspective of a high school girl and a football coach, Broken Field reveals the tensions that tear at the fabric of a small town when a high school hazing incident escalates and threatens a championship season. Set on the high prairies of Montana, in small towns scattered ac...

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Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire

by David Thomson

Published: 2019-01-29

Hardcover: 368 pages

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From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, an original, seductive account of sexuality in the movies and of how actors and actresses on screen have fed our desire.Film can make us want things we can not have. But, while sometimes rapturous, the inter...

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This Mortal Coil

by Emily Suvada

Published: 2017-11-07

Hardcover: 432 pages

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In this gripping debut novel, seventeen-year-old Cat must use her gene-hacking skills to decode her late father’s message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague.Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that’s not what makes her speci...

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Beautiful Animals: A Novel

by Lawrence Osborne

Published: 2017-07-18

Hardcover: 304 pages

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"Let’s not mince words. This is a great book. Truly difficult to put down... sophisticated, smart and uncomfortable, and the story is cracking." – Lionel Shriver, Washington Post "Startlingly good...Osborne has been described as an heir to Graham Greene, and he shares with Greene a...

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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

by Anand Giridharadas

Published: 2018-08-28

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power ...

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Beneath the Mountain: A Novel

by Luca D'Andrea

Published: 2018-01-02

Paperback: 400 pages

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In Luca D’Andrea’s atmospheric and brilliant thriller, set in a small mountain community in the majestic Italian Dolomites, an outsider must uncover the truth about a triple murder that has gone unsolved for thirty years.New York City native Jeremiah Salinger is one half of a hot-shot ...

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Be Here Now

by Ram Dass

Published: 1978-10-12

Paperback: 416 pages

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“We’re talking about metamorphosis We’re talking about going from a caterpillar to a butterfly We’re talking about how to become a butterfly.”   In March 1961, Professor Richard Alpert – later renamed Ram Dass – held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. He...

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Hollow: A Novel

by Owen Egerton

Published: 2017-07-14

Kindle Edition: 240 pages

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An NPR Best Book of 2017"With the kind of grace not usually seen in accessible modern fiction, Egerton also invokes many other things with this central metaphor . . . Ollie's voice is one of the most believable I've encountered this year, sustained by honesty, realism, and compassion. In h...

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The Willowdale Handcar: or the Return of the Black Doll

by Edward Gorey

Published: 2003-10-06

Hardcover: 64 pages

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In this enigmatic, surreal, wonderfully entertaining tale, three mysterious figures set out from Willowdale, traveling by handcar. On the way to nowhere in particular they pass a number of odd characters and observe a series of baffling phenomena, from a house burning down in a field to a ...

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An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

by Helene Tursten

Published: 2018-11-06

Hardcover: 184 pages

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Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing al...