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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Shirley Jackson

Published: 2006-10-31

Paperback: 146 pages

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Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secretTaking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the ...

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The Butterfly Girl: A Novel

by Rene Denfeld

Published: 2019-10-01

Hardcover: 272 pages

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The Butterfly Girl is a riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not ...

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Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World

by Lucy Ives

Published: 2019-05-07

Paperback: 304 pages

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A tale of two idiots?the handsome, charismatic Troy Augustus Loudermilk and his unassuming, socially anxious friend Harry Rego?who, in the early days of the new millennium, scam their way into a fellowship at the most prestigious creative writing program in the country It’s the end of ...

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Ghost Wall: A Novel

by Sarah Moss

Published: 2019-01-08

Hardcover: 144 pages

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A Southern Living Best New Book of Winter 2019; A Refinery29 Best Book of January 2019; A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at The Week, Huffington Post, Nylon, and Lit Hub; An Indie Next Pick for January 2019“Ghost Wall has subtlety, wit, and the force of a rock to the head: an instant clas...

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My Life as a Rat: A Novel

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 2019-06-04

Hardcover: 416 pages

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“A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant.  You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?”  --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a RatWhich should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling...

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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

by Louise Aronson

Published: 2019-06-11

Hardcover: 464 pages

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A New York Times bestseller As revelatory as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson’s Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life.For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between ...

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The Gap of Time: William Shakespeare' The Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare)

by Jeanette Winterson

Published: 2016-06-21

Paperback: 288 pages

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The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s “late plays.” It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of ...

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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)

by Loung Ung

Published: 2006-04-04

Paperback: 238 pages

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From a childhood survivor of the Camdodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their triumph of spirit.One of seven children of a high-ranking government official,...

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What's Next? Updated: Finding Your Passion and Your Dream Job in Your Forties, Fifties and Beyond

by Kerry Hannon

Published: 2014-04-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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Reinvent your own career or pursue a long-held dream.You may never have a better chance or reason to do so—to get excited about work again and feel passionate about making a difference in the world.Your new career could easily outlast your first one.Breaking into a new industry or pursui...

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The Infinite Game

by Simon Sinek

Published: 2019-10-15

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Do you know how to play the game you’re in?  In finite games, like football or chess, the players are known, the rules are fixed, and the endpoint is clear. The winners and losers are easily identified.   In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come a...