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Night & Day: The past is a dangerous place. . . (A Vintage Mystery)

by Elizabeth Edmondson

Published: 2014-09-11

Kindle Edition: 246 pages

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From Bohemian theatre-land to the aristocratic formality of a great house.From the centre of London to the depths of Cornwall.From the familiar to the utterly strange.Downton Abbey meets Greek MythCleo Otway, daughter of a celebrated actress, happy in her life in 1930s London, enters a new...

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Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir

by Jean Guerrero

Published: 2018-07-17

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory—between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and deathWinner of the PEN/FUSION Emerging Writers Prize Throughout Jean Guerrero’s childhood, her...

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Lemon Drops: A Bittersweet Memoir

by Frances Chin

Published: 2015-04-04

Paperback: 228 pages

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Lemon Drops: A Bittersweet Memoir traces the journey of author Frances Chin’s mother as she travels from China to San Francisco in 1935 as a “picture bride” in an arranged marriage. She had five daughters with the husband she barely knew and rarely saw, thus was left to raise five daughters alone...

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Monkey Grip

by Helen Garner

Published: 1984-02-07

Paperback: 256 pages

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In Monkey Grip, Helen Garner charts the lives of a generation. Her characters are exploring new ways of loving and living - and nothing is harder than learning to love lightly. Nora and Javo are trapped in a desperate relationship. Nora's addiction is romantic love; Javo's is hard drugs. The harder they...

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War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)

by Leo Tolstoy

Published: 2002-07-09

Paperback: 1424 pages

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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadOften called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic Wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy’s genius is seen clearly in ...

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The Ever After: A Novel

by Sarah Pekkanen

Published: 2018-06-05

Paperback: 272 pages

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“Writing with rawness and realism, Pekkanen doesn’t hold back…Fans of Liane Moriarty and Anne Tyler will appreciate the story’s depth." —Booklist“In her signature conversational style, Pekkanen uncovers the truth behind the lies as Josie comes to grips with reality vs. the mir...

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An Anonymous Girl

by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

Published: 2019-01-08

Hardcover: 384 pages

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The instant #1 New York Times bestseller (January 2019) everyone is talking about! People Magazine's Book of the Week • Bookish's "Must-Read Books of Winter" • PopSugar's "Best Books of Winter" • Cosmopolitan's "2019 Books to Bring to Your Book Club" • Bookbub's "Biggest Books of W...

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Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z

by David Sacks

Published: 2004-08-03

Paperback: 416 pages

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David Sacks has embarked on a fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet–and into cultural history–in Letter Perfect. Clearly explaining the letters as symbols of precise sounds of speech, the book begins with the earliest known alphabetic inscriptions (circa 1800 b.c.), rece...

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My Amish Life

by Rebecca Miller

Published: 2018-04-21

Paperback: 180 pages

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A memoir of a formerly Amish Ohio woman who grew up in an abusive home: Rebecca tells of her painful past, her primitive upbringing, and her decision to leave the Old Order Amish lifestyle. Led by faith in God and a desire to find freedom and truth, Rebecca and her husband left behind friends, family,...

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Our Love Could Light the World

by Anne Leigh Parrish

Published: 2013-05-23

Paperback: 202 pages

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The Dugans are a scrappy, dysfunctional family living in upstate New York that's getting along okay until the mother walks out one day, leaving five undisciplined kids and an alcoholic, unemployed husband behind. In these twelve stories, we find out how the Dugan clan learns to get along w...