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The Free: A Novel (P.S.)

by Willy Vlautin

Published: 2014-02-04

Paperback: 320 pages

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Award-winning author of The Motel Life, Northline and Lean on Pete, Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for confronting issues facing modern America, illuminated through the lives of three memorable characters who are looking for a way out of their financial, familial, and ...

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The First True Lie: A Novel

by Marina Mander

Published: 2014-01-21

Paperback: 144 pages

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An utterly compelling, heartbreaking novel that introduces a revelatory young voice to the U.S. market.Meet Luca, a curious young boy living with his mother, a taciturn woman who every now and then tries out a new father. Luca keeps to himself, his cat, Blue, and his favorite toys—words...

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An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir

by Phyllis Chesler

Published: 2013-10-01

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Few westerners will ever be able to understand Muslim or Afghan society unless they are part of a Muslim family. Twenty years old and in love, Phyllis Chesler, a Jewish-American girl from Brooklyn, embarked on an adventure that has lasted for more than a half-century. In 1961, when she ar...

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My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

by Ari Shavit

Published: 2013-11-19

Hardcover: 464 pages

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMISTWINNER OF THE NATAN BOOK AWARD • NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER: THE GERRARD AND ELLA BERMAN MEMORIAL AWARD IN HISTORY • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn authoritative and deeply personal narrati...

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The Carpet People

by Terry Pratchett

Published: 2013-11-05

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet . . . That’s the old story everyone knows and loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples, and there’s a new story in the making. The story of Fray, sweeping a trail of destructio...

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This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral -- Mark Leibovich -- Summary, Review & Analysis

by Save Time Summaries

Published: 2013-09-03

Paperback: 60 pages

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SAVE TIME & UNDERSTAND MORE! WARNING: This is not the actual book This Town by Mark Leibovich. Do not buy this summary & analysis if you are looking for a full copy of this fascinating and often hilarious book, which can be found back on the Amazon search page. Instead, we have already re...

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The Hive: A Novel

by Gill Hornby

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 352 pages

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There's only room for one Queen Bee: A hilarious and touching novel about the social world of school mothers.It's the start of another school year at St. Ambrose. While the children are busy in the classroom, their mothers are learning sharper lessons. Lessons in friendship. Lessons in bet...

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Beneath a Marble Sky

by John Shors

Published: 2013-05-31

Paperback: 336 pages

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In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, overwhelmed with grief over the death of his beloved wife, Mumatz Mahal, commissioned the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love. The story surrounding the construction of the Taj Mahal occurs, however, against a scrim of...

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Where the Moon Isn't: A Novel

by Nathan Filer

Published: 2013-11-05

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Winner of the 2013 Costa First Novel Award (under the title The Shock of the Fall) "A stunning novel. Ambitious and exquisitely realized . . . clearly the work of a major new talent." —S. J. Watson, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep While on vacation with their p...

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by Kirby Larson

Published: 2013-08-27

Hardcover: 240 pages

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A poignant World War II story about a boy and his dog and his dad, and the many meanings of bravery, from Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson.With World War II raging and his father fighting overseas in Europe, eleven-year-old Hobie Hanson is determined to do his part to help his family and ...