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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

Published: 2011-03-08

Paperback: 381 pages

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Now an HBO® Film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cellsâ??taken without her knowledge in 1951â??became one of the most important tools in medicin...

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The Poppy Wife: A Novel of the Great War

by Caroline Scott

Published: 2019-11-05

Paperback: 448 pages

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In the tradition of Jennifer Robson and Hazel Gaynor, this unforgettable debut novel is a sweeping tale of forbidden love, profound loss, and the startling truth of the broken families left behind in the wake of World War I.1921. Survivors of the Great War are desperately trying to piece t...

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We Went to the Woods: A Novel

by Caite Dolan-Leach

Published: 2019-07-02

Hardcover: 368 pages

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They went off the grid. Their secrets didn’t. For readers of The Secret History and The Immortalists comes a novel about the allure—and dangers—of disconnecting.“A sharp, spellbinding cautionary tale, one that reminds us that even those who do remember the past might also wind ...

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The Daughter: A gripping psychological thriller with a twist you won't see coming

by Lucy Dawson

Published: 2018-01-22

Paperback: 284 pages

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’Gripped me and didn’t let go until the wickedly twisted ending.’ Jenny Blackhurst, author of How I Lost You. A heartbreaking and unputdownable psychological thriller perfect for fans of Linda Green, K.L. Slater and Teresa Driscoll. You lost your daughter. You will never forgive your...

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The Mouse and the Motorcycle

by Beverly Cleary

Published: 2016-01-26

Paperback: 176 pages

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This timeless classic now features a foreword written by New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo, as well as an exclusive interview with Beverly Cleary herself.In this imaginative adventure from Newbery Medal–winning author Beverly Cleary, a young mouse named Ralph is thrown int...

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The King Who Made Paper Flowers: A Novel

by Terry Kay

Published: 2016-04-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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When Arthur Benjamin steps from a Greyhound bus in Savannah, Georgia, he is immediately robbed by an affable street magician named Hamby Cahill.It is Hamby's first act of thievery and the remorse of it so overwhelms him that he finds lodging for Arthur in The Castle, a warehouse supposedly...

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A House at the Bottom of a Lake

by Josh Malerman

Published: 2016-10-31

Paperback: 118 pages

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Both seventeen. Both afraid. But both saying yes. It sounded like the perfect first date: canoeing across a chain of lakes, sandwiches and beer in the cooler. But teenagers Amelia and James discover something below the water's surface that changes their lives forever. It's got two stories....

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The Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club - Book One (Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club Series)

by Ann Warner

Published: 2016-07-06

Paperback: 280 pages

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A morose parrot with a reputation for biting perches in a small cage in the lobby of Brookside Retirement Community. For Josephine, a reluctant resident, he sums up the place which friend and handwriting expert, Lill, has dubbed Babbling Brook (in honor of the missing waterway and the more exasperating...

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The Cloud Roads: Volume One of the Books of the Raksura

by Martha Wells

Published: 2011-03-01

Kindle Edition: 289 pages

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Moon has spent his life hiding what he is — a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. An orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon tries to fit in among the tribes of his river valley, with mixed success. Just as Moon is once again cast out by his adopted...

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Kiss Me, Swami: The Spiritual Education of a Beauty Queen

by Kathalynn Turner Davis, Genevieve Joy

Published: 2019-09-03

Paperback: 368 pages

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It seemed all she had to do was show up.Kathalynn Turner Davis ditched beauty pageants for Hollywood, finding herself in the living rooms, nightclubs, sound stages, and lives of some of the era’s hottest celebs, including the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll himself. After a successful debut as...