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Flora: A Novel

by Gail Godwin

Published: 2013-05-07

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II.At three Helen lost her mother and the beloved grandmother who raised her has just died.A...

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Summer

by Edith Wharton

Published: 2011-10-12

Paperback: 108 pages

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"Summer" by Edith Wharton was published in 1917. The novel details sexual discovery of the protagonist, Charity. The novel experienced a surge in popularity after the author's death, in the 1960s. Wharton's important work is now available in this new edition.

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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Published: 2013-03-26

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions.?   Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities...

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The Stranger's Child (Vintage International)

by Alan Hollinghurst

Published: 2012-09-04

Paperback: 448 pages

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From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poe...

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Brat Farrar

by Josephine Tey

Published: 2012-11-30

Kindle Edition: 293 pages

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In this tale of mystery and suspense, a stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family's sizable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerism's, appearance, and every significant detail of Patrick's early...

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Continental Drift (P.S.)

by Russell Banks

Published: 2007-03-13

Paperback: 410 pages

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A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's Continental Drift is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained, and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and t...

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The Shining Girls: A Novel

by Lauren Beukes

Published: 2013-06-04

Hardcover: 384 pages

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THE GIRL WHO WOULDN'T DIE HUNTS THE KILLER WHO SHOULDN'T EXIST.The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own." Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future.Kirby is the la...

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The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family

by Josh Hanagarne

Published: 2013-05-02

Hardcover: 304 pages

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An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette’s found salvation in books and weight-lifting Josh Hanagarne couldn’t be invisible if he tried. Although he wouldn’t officially be diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome until his freshman year of high school, Josh was six years old and...

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A Delicate Truth: A Novel

by John le Carre

Published: 2013-05-07

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar.  Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom frien...

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The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life

by Rod Dreher

Published: 2013-04-09

Hardcover: 288 pages

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THE LITTLE WAY OF RUTHIE LEMING follows Rod Dreher, a Philadelphia journalist, back to his hometown of St. Francisville, Louisiana (pop. 1,700) in the wake of his younger sister Ruthie's death. When she was diagnosed at age 40 with a virulent form of cancer in 2010, Dreher was moved by the...