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Memento Park: A Novel

by Mark Sarvas

Published: 2018-03-13

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Winner of the 2019 Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction AwardShort-listed for the 2019 JQ Wingate Literary Prize. One of Entertainment Weekly’s 20 Books to Read in March and one of TimeOut’s 11 Books You’ll Want to Binge-Read This MonthA son learns more about his father tha...

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The Impossible Girl

by Lydia Kang

Published: 2018-09-18

Paperback: 364 pages

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Two hearts. Twice as vulnerable.Manhattan, 1850. Born out of wedlock to a wealthy socialite and a nameless immigrant, Cora Lee can mingle with the rich just as easily as she can slip unnoticed into the slums and graveyards of the city. As the only female resurrectionist in New York, she’...

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Hiroshima Mon Amour

by Marguerite Duras

Published: 1994-02-10

Paperback: 112 pages

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Jacket description/back: One of the most influential works in the history of cinema, Alain Renais's Hiroshima Mon Amour gathered international acclaim upon its release in 1959 and was awarded the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film festival and the New York Film Critics' Award....

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The Irish Girl: A Novel (Deverill Chronicles Book 1)

by Santa Montefiore

Published: 2016-09-27

Kindle Edition: 576 pages

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Ireland. The early twentieth century.  Two girls on the cusp of womanhood. A nation on the brink of war.  Read their story — and see why JOJO Moyes says that "Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore."  Born on the ninth day of the ninth month in the year 1900, Kitty Deverill ...

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Boy Swallows Universe: A Novel

by Trent Dalton

Published: 2019-04-02

Hardcover: 464 pages

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“Boy Swallows Universe hypnotizes you with wonder, and then hammers you with heartbreak. . . . Eli’s remarkably poetic voice and his astonishingly open heart take the day. They enable him to carve out the best of what’s possible from the worst of what is, which is the miracle that ma...

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I Want My Epidural Back: Adventures in Mediocre Parenting

by Karen Alpert

Published: 2016-04-05

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Now that I’m a mom, I know the most painful part isn’t getting something giant through your hooha. It’s having a real live child.If you are the kind of mom who shapes your kiddo’s organic quinoa into reproductions of the Mona Lisa, do not read this book. If you stayed up past midn...

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Vacuum in the Dark: A Novel

by Jen Beagin

Published: 2019-02-26

Hardcover: 240 pages

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From the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a new hilarious, edgy, and brilliant one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.Mona is twenty-six and cleans houses for a...

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The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes

by Tess Uriza Holthe

Published: 2008-07-22

Paperback: 288 pages

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San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2007ALA Notable Book of 2007The 5:45 train to Cannes . . . It links northern Italy with the French Riviera while running like a thread through lives that touch one another in unexpected and often secret ways: Chazz, the heir to a great fortune; GianC...

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Super Powereds: Year 1 (Volume 1)

by Drew Hayes

Published: 2013-10-13

Paperback: 734 pages

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Knowledge is power. That would be the motto of Lander University, had it not been snatched up and used to death by others long before the school was founded. For while Lander offers a full range of courses to nearly all students, it also offers a small number of specialty classes to a very select few....

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The Madonna of the Mountains: A Novel

by Elise Valmorbida

Published: 2018-06-12

Hardcover: 368 pages

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“A riveting adventure for the soul . . . just the kind of evocative historical fiction I love.”—Sara Gruen, author of At the Water’s Edge and Water for ElephantsAn epic, inspiring novel about one woman’s survival in the hardscrabble Italian countryside and her determination t...