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* * * * Fun,
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Half Broken Things

by Morag Joss

Published: 2006-07-25

Paperback: 336 pages

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A gripping tale of psychological suspense perfect for the readership of Minette Walters and Ruth Rendell, Half Broken Things is a novel that peers into the lives of three dangerously lost people…and the ominous haven they find when they find each other.Jean is a house sitter at the end o...

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Half Brother

by Kenneth Oppel

Published: 2010-09-01

Hardcover: 384 pages

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For thirteen years, Ben Tomlin was an only child. But all that changes when his mother brings home Zan -- an eight-day-old chimpanzee. Ben's father, a renowned behavioral scientist, has uprooted the family to pursue his latest research project: a high-profile experiment to determine wheth...

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Half in Love : Stories

by Maile Meloy

Published: 2003-06-17

Paperback: 174 pages

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Lean and controlled in their narration, abundant and moving in their effects, Maile Meloy's stories introduce a striking talent. Most are set in the modern American West, made vivid and unexpected in Meloy's unsentimental vision; others take us to Paris, wartime London, and Greece, with th...

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Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide

by Linda Gray Sexton

Published: 2011-01-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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After the agony of witnessing her mother's multiple—and ultimately successful—suicide attempts, Linda Gray Sexton, daughter of the acclaimed poet Anne Sexton, struggles with an engulfing undertow of depression. Here, with powerful, unsparing prose, Sexton conveys her urgent need to esc...

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The Half Life

by Jennifer Weiner

Published: 2011-02-01

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From Redbook's Red-Hot Read series, a short story by the New York Times #1 best-selling author of In Her Shoes and Fly Away Home "My life is over," Piper DeWitt thinks to herself, awaiting departure in the overcrowded International Terminal of the Philadelphia airport for an overseas busin...

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Half Magic

by Edward Eager, N. M. Bodecker (Illustrator)

Published: 1999-03-31

Paperback: 208 pages

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Since Half Magic first hit bookshelves in 1954, Edward Eager's tales of magic have become beloved classics. Now four cherished stories by Edward Eager about vacationing cousins who stumble into magical doings and whimsical adventures are available in updated hardcover and paperback formats...

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* * * * * Beautiful,
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Half Moon, Full Heart

by Gene Cartwright

Published: 2012-03-16

Paperback: 252 pages

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Half Moon, Full Heart? a love story spanning fifty years. Following a diagnosis of breast cancer, former Deputy White House Press Secretary, Rachel Marin's film director husband abandons her. Though a successful, professional woman, her world collapses. She attempts suicide then struggles to lift herself...

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* * * * Brilliant,
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Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 543 pages

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A haunting story of love and war from â??one of the worldâ??s great contemporary writersâ? (Barack Obama), the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists.With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in moder...

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Half of the Human Race

by Anthony Quinn

Published: 2011-03

Hardcover: 349 pages

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London. In the sweltering summer of 1911, the streets ring to the cheers for a new king's coronation, and to the cries of suffragist women marching for the vote. One of them is twenty-one-year-old Connie Callaway, daughter of a middle-class Islington family fallen on hard times since the death of her...

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* * * * Informative,
Life Changing,
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn

Published: 2009-09-08

Hardcover: 320 pages

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From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey ...