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The Vanishing Act: A Novel

by Mette Jakobsen

Published: 2012-09-17

Hardcover: 224 pages

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"The best stories change you. I am not the same after The Vanishing Act as I was before.??Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus On a small snow-covered island'so tiny that it can?t be found on any map?lives twelve-year-old Minou, her philosopher Papa (a descendent of Descartes), Box...

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Vanishing Acts: A Novel

by Jodi Picoult

Published: 2005-03-15

Kindle Edition: 448 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her ability to tap into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she explores what happens when a young woman's past -- a past she didn't even know she had -- catches up to her just in time to threaten her future. Deli...

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Vanishing Acts: A Novel

by Jodi Picoult

Published: 2005-11-15

Paperback: 448 pages

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How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose?Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons....

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The Vanishing of Katharina Linden: A Novel

by Helen Grant

Published: 2011-04-26

Paperback: 320 pages

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After Pia's grandmother dies in a freak accident, the neighbors in her little German hometown of Bad Münstereifel glance at Pia with wary eyes. But then something else captures the community's attention: the vanishing of Katharina Linden. Katharina was last seen at a parade, dressed as Snow White. Then,...

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The Vanishing Point

by Mary Sharratt

Published: 2006-06-02

Paperback: 384 pages

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In the tradition of Philippa Gregory's smart, transporting fiction comes this tale of two independent, spirited sisters. Bright and inquisitive, Hannah Powers was raised by a father who treated her as if she were his son. While her beautiful and reckless sister, May, pushes the limits of propriety...

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Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Published: 2002-02-26

Mass Market Paperback: 912 pages

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This is Thackeray's rich and gloriously chaotic sketch of English society during the Napoleonic wars. At the centre of this picture is the scheming and disreputable Becky Sharp, one of Thackeray's greatest creations. The style here is fast-paced and comic, but the character of Dobbin and his unrequited...

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Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Published: 2005-09-01

Hardcover: 736 pages

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Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the r...

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Vanity Fair's How a Book is Born: The Making of The Art of Fielding

by Graydon Carter, Keith Gessen

Published: 2011-09-05

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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The highly anticipated novel The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach, has just been published. But what is the riveting story behind the story?and what does it take to make a bestseller these days? As author and n 1 co-founder Keith Gessen reveals in this 17,000-word e-book (expanded from the...

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Vanity, Vengeance And A Weekend In Vegas: A Sophie Katz Mystery

by Kyra Davis

Published: 2012-03-16

Paperback: 350 pages

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Sophie Katz, bestselling mystery writer and amateur sleuth, has just discovered that Anatoly, her sexy Russian P.I boyfriend of six years is actually married to the daughter of a Russian mafia boss. Devastated by his betrayal, Sophie banishes him from their beautiful San Francisco Victorian home. Desperate...

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Various Flavors of Coffee

by Anthony Capella

Published: 2009-03-27

Paperback: 350 pages

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The brilliant new novel from Anthony Capella, author of the bestselling The Food of Love and The Wedding Officer.|It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee - and encounters...