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The Astral: A Novel

by Kate Christensen

Published: 2011-06-14

Hardcover: 320 pages

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From the PEN/Faulkner Award?winning author of The Great Man, a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn. The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apart­ment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decade...

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Astrid & Veronika

by Linda Olsson

Published: 2007-07

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Astrid and Veronika

by Linda Olsson

Published: 2007-02-06

Paperback: 259 pages

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With extraordinary emotional power, Linda Olsson’s stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Veronika, a young writer from New Zealand, rents a house in a small Swedish village as she tries to come to terms with a ...

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Asylum Lake

by R. a. Evans

Published: 2010-07-30

Paperback: 208 pages

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The State s second largest Psychopathic Hospital opened in 1917 on 600 wooded acres overlooking a small lake near Bedlam Falls, Michigan. Through its doors came the weak and the weary, the disabled and the discarded, the frail and the forgotten. But an open door is an invitation, and some ...

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Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

by Christopher Payne

Published: 2009-09-30

Hardcover: 209 pages

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"Payne is a visual poet as well as an architect by training, and he has spent years finding and photographing these buildings?often the pride of their local communities and a powerful symbol of humane caring for those less fortunate. His photographs are beautiful images in their own right,...

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At Agincourt

by G. A. Henty

Published: 2010-05-23

Hardcover: 274 pages

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"Perhaps it would be best, Master Guy. I fear not three men if they stand up face to face with me, but to be stabbed in the back is a thing that neither strength nor skill can save one from. But as I care not to be always going about in armour I will expend some of my crowns in buying a shirt of mail...

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At First Sight

by Nicholas Sparks

Published: 2007-09-01

Mass Market Paperback: 332 pages

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There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to...

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At First Sight: A Novel of Obsession

by Stephen J. Cannell

Published: 2008-07-08

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Meet Chick Best--a middle-aged, self-absorbed, disaffected, California dot-com millionaire. Other than his house and high-priced foreign cars, Chick's most expensive possession is his trophy wife, Evelyn. Evelyn is good at spending Chick's money, money that has pretty much run out. Another problem is...

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* * * * Romantic,
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At Grave's End (Night Huntress, Book 3)

by Jeaniene Frost

Published: 2009-01-01

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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Some things won't stay buried . . . at grave's end It should be the best time of half-vampire Cat Crawfield's life. With her undead lover Bones at her side, she's successfully protected mortals from the rogue undead. But though Cat's worn disguise after disguise to keep her true ident...

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At Home

by Bill Bryson

Published: 2011-05

Paperback: 704 pages

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In "At Home", Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made "A Short History of Nearly Everything" one of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and illuminating books ...