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The Parrot Who Owns Me: The Story of a Relationship

by Joanna Burger

Published: 2002-05-14

Paperback: 272 pages

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Parrotfish

by Ellen Wittlinger

Published: 2007-07-10

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Last week I cut my hair, bought some boys' clothes and shoes, wrapped a large ACE bandage around my chest to flatten my fortunately-not-largebreasts, and began looking for a new name.Angela Katz-McNair has never felt quite right as a girl. Her whole life is leading up to the day she decide...

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Part of Our Time (New York Review Books Classics): Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties

by Murray Kempton

Published: 2004

Paperback: 360 pages

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Master journalist Murray Kempton re-creates an era when many believed that the only hope for America's future lay in violent revolution. Writing as both a radical and a skeptic, Kempton looks back--from the vantage of the very un-revolutionary 1950s--on the tangled affairs of Alger Hiss and Whittaker...

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Partials

by Dan Wells

Published: 2012-02-28

Hardcover: 480 pages

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The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials?engineered organic beings identical to humans?has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled t...

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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel

by Aimee Bender

Published: 2010-06-01

Hardcover: 292 pages

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The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents? attention, bites into her mother's h...

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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel. Aimee Bender

by Aimee Bender

Published: 2011-02

Paperback: 304 pages

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On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. She discovers this...

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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

by Aimee Bender

Published: 2011-04-19

Paperback: 304 pages

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On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the slice. To her horror, she finds that her cheerful mother tastes of despair. Soon, she’s  p...

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The Parting (The Courtship of Nellie Fisher, Book 1)

by Beverly Lewis

Published: 2007-10-01

Paperback: 347 pages

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The People themselves dare to challenge the Old Ways of their heritage...and each patriarch must choose a side. Nearly one hundred days have passed since the untimely death of Nellie Mae Fisher's beloved younger sister, Suzy, and Nellie dares again to dream of a future with handsome Caleb Yoder....

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The Partner

by John Grisham

Published: 1998-01-07

Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages

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They hired him.  They trusted him.  Now they don't want justice--they want revenge....For four years, Patrick had often wondered how it would feel if they caught him.Now he was terror-stricken.  Practically naked and strapped down like an animal, he knew the next few hours would be i...

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The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted

by Mike Lofgren

Published: 2012-08-02

Hardcover: 240 pages

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The New York Times bestselling exposé of what passes for business as usual in Washington today There was a time, not so very long ago, when perfectly rational people ran the Republican Party. So how did the party of Lincoln become the party of lunatics? That is what this book aims to answ...