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Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe

by Heather Webber

Published: 2019-07-16

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm.Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, ...

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Lives Other Than My Own

by Emmanuel Carrère

Published: 2012-09-04

Paperback: 256 pages

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In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grandfather helpless against the onrushing water. In France, a woman dies from cancer, leaving her husband and small children bereft. What links these two catastrophes is the presence of Emmanuel Carrère, who manages to find consolation and even...

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Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)

by Thomas Hardy

Published: 1998-09-01

Paperback: 528 pages

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"I’m an outsider to the end of my days!"Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his co...

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The Tunnel (Penguin Classics)

by Ernesto Sabato

Published: 2012-06-26

Paperback: 160 pages

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One of the great short novels of the twentieth century—in an edition marking the 100th anniversary of the author's birth.An unforgettable psychological novel of obsessive love, The Tunnel was championed by Albert Camus, Thomas Mann, and Graham Greene upon its publication in 1948 and went...

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The Side Effects of You

by Anna Black

Published: 2016-06-28

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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Andrea, Samantha, and Josie have one thing in common: an ex they want to forget. Although they've tried to keep it together, there comes a time when you have to move on. However, moving on only seems to make matters worse as they strive to make new lives for themselves. There is always something that...

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Over the Fence (The Neighbors Series)

by Mary Monroe

Published: 2019-03-26

Hardcover: 336 pages

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In this page-turning novel set in the Depression-era South, New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe transports readers to a small Alabama town where home is not always a sanctuary, and two neighboring families let pleasantries mask increasing resentment. . .   Bootlegging was Milton...

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My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress

by Rachel DeLoache Williams

Published: 2019-07-23

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Sex and the City meets Catch Me if You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as a German heiress in New York City—as told by the former Vanity Fair photo editor who got seduced by her friendship and then scammed out of more than $62,000. Vanity Fair ...

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Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

by Barbara Brown Taylor

Published: 2019-03-12

Hardcover: 256 pages

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New York Times BestsellerThe renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Geo...

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The Sherlock Holmes Collection

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Published: 2018-03-01

Hardcover: 928 pages

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This beautiful BB edition collects together Arthur Conan Doyle's finest Sherlock Holmes stories in one package. The drug-addled, anti-social sleuth has become one of the most iconic characters in fiction and the tales collected here will entertain readers today just as much as when they were first published...

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Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence

by Jeremy Wilson

Published: 1990-05-01

Hardcover: 1188 pages

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Dust jacket notes: "Lawrence of Arabia -- the name conjures up swirling visions of desert sand and galloping camels, of epic victories and horrific personal sacrifices. But behind the heroic legend and the haunting images the reliable information is surprisingly scarce: Just who was T.E. Lawrence? In...