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After You: A Novel

by Julie Buxbaum

Published: 2009-08-25

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author of The Opposite of Love, delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each other?and ourselv...

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After You: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

by Julie Buxbaum

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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When tragedy strikes across the ocean, Ellie Lerner drops everything--her marriage, her job, her life in the Boston suburbs--to travel to London and pick up the pieces of her best friend Lucy's life. While Lucy's husband, Greg, retreats into himself, his and Lucy's eight-year-old daughter,...

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After You'd Gone

by Maggie O'Farrell

Published: 2002-02-26

Paperback: 384 pages

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Alice Raikes takes a train from London to Scotland to visit her family, but when she gets there she witnesses something so shocking that she insists on returning to London immediately. A few hours later, Alice is lying in a coma after an accident that may or may not have been a suicide att...

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After You've Gone: A Novel

by Jeffrey Lent

Published: 2009-03-01

Hardcover: 272 pages

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The acclaimed, best-selling author of In the Fall and Lost Nation returns with a magnificent novel of love and grief set in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century.

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After: A Novel

by Marita Golden

Published: 2007-07-17

Paperback: 256 pages

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In her long-awaited fifth novel, acclaimed writer Marita Golden takes another unflinching look into the face of family, race, love and identity.For twelve years Carson Blake inhabited a world of his own creation. Scorned by the father who was incapable of showing him affection and nearly c...

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After: Poems

by Jane Hirshfield

Published: 2007-03-01

Paperback: 112 pages

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An investigation into incarnation, transience, and our intimate connection with all existence, by one of the preeminent poets of her generation

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Afterburn: A Novel

by Zane

Published: 2005-10-04

Paperback: 320 pages

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When Washington, D.C., chiropractor Yardley Brown goes to his local bank, it isn't only to make deposits into his account. He has long since accrued some interest in Rayne Waters, a bank employee who's too beautiful to be true -- and too beautiful to be single. At least that's what Yardley...

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The Afterlife

by Gary Soto

Published: 2005-04-01

Paperback: 168 pages

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You'd think a knife in the ribs would be the end of things, but for Chuy, that's what it takes to make his life interesting. He finally sees that people love him, faces the consequences of his actions, and even stumbles upon what may be true love. A funny, touching, and wholly original sto...

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Afternoon on the Amazon

by Mary Pope Osborne

Published: 1995

Paperback: 67 pages

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Paperback: 67 pages Publisher: Scholastic (1995) Language: English

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The Afterparty

by Leo Benedictus

Published: 2011-04-11

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A brilliantly clever, truly mind-bending satire about truth, lies, and the dark underbelly of 21st century celebrity life. This book is different. You've really never read a book like this before. It's the story of an April night that never happened. A night that changes everything for ne...