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Mr. Ives' Christmas

by Oscar Hijuelos

Published: 2003-12-23

Paperback: 248 pages

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Hijuelos' novel tells the story of Mr. Ives, who was adopted from a foundling's home as a child. When we first meet him in the 1950s, Mr. Ives is very much a product of his time. He has a successful career in advertising, a wife and two children, and believes he is on his way to pursuing t...

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Mr. Jefferson's Women

by Jon Kukla

Published: 2007-10-09

Hardcover: 279 pages

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Mr. Kill: A Sergeants Sueño & Bascom Mystery (Sergeants Sueno & Bascom Mysteries)

by Martin Limon

Published: 2011-12-06

Hardcover: 375 pages

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On a crowded train from Pusan to Seoul, the brutal rape of a young mother sparks rage on the powder-keg peninsula of Korea, pitting Koreans against Americans and the 8th Army brass against the truth.  Eyewitness accounts indicate the culprit was most likely a U.S. serviceman, but by the...

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Mr. Mani

by Abraham B. Yehoshua

Published: 1992-02-09

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Mr Mani is a profound and passionate epic, chronicling six generations of a Sephardi Jewish family from the mid-nineteeth century to the present. A B Yehoshua captures the reader's imagination...

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Mr. Maybe: A Novel

by Jane Green

Published: 2002-06-11

Paperback: 368 pages

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To Libby Mason, Mr. Right has always meant Mr. Rich. A twenty-seven-year-old publicist, she’s barely able to afford her fashionable and fabulous lifestyle, and often has to foot the bill for dates with Struggling Writer Nick, a sexy but perpetually strapped-for-cash guy she’s dating (...

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Mr. Palomar

by Italo Calvino

Published: 1986-09-22

Paperback: 144 pages

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Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of the famous telescope, is a seeker after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Whether contemplating a cheese, a woman's breasts, or a gorilla's behavior, he brings us a vision of a world familiar by consensus, fragmented ...

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Mr. Peanut (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Adam Ross

Published: 2011-04-19

Paperback: 464 pages

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David Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met in a university seminar on Alfred Hitchcock. After thirteen years of marriage, he still can?t imagine a remotely happy life without her?yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she is dead, and David is bo...

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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel

by Robin Sloan

Published: 2013-09-24

Paperback: 288 pages

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The New York Times BestsellerA Winner of the Alex Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco ChronicleThe Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon away from life as a San Francisco web...

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Mr. Perfect

by Linda Howard

Published: 2003-07

Paperback: 405 pages

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What would make the perfect man? That's the delicious topic heating up the proceedings at a certain table of professional women at their favorite restaurant, Ernie's, tonight: Mr. Perfect. What qualities would he have? Would he be tall, dark, and handsome? Caring and warmhearted -- or wil...

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Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English: A Novel

by Natasha Solomons

Published: 2010-06-21

Hardcover: 368 pages

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At the outset of World War II, Jack Rosenblum, his wife Sadie, and their baby daughter escape Berlin, bound for London. They are greeted with a pamphlet instructing immigrants how to act like "the English." Jack acquires Saville Row suits and a Jaguar. He buys his marmalade from Fortnum &...