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The Pelee Project: One Woman's Escape from Urban Madness

by Jane Christmas

Published: 2014-07-14

Paperback: 240 pages

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Back in 2000, Jane Christmas was, like millions of others, an exhausted single working mother with a punishing agenda of work, domestic, and parenting duties. Weekdays were an urban triathlon, weekends evaporated into mile-long to-do lists. Jane found herself drained, living beyond her means emotionally,...

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To Soften the Blow

by Ms. Lynnie Vessels

Published: 2012-04-19

Paperback: 472 pages

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At seven years old, Lynnie Vessels stepped out of the bathtub to discover her father had just shot her mother with a shotgun across their dining room table.  Literally standing naked in her mother's blood throughout the ensuing horror, she was magically transported into the loving eyes of her younger...

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Waiting for Bojangles

by Olivier Bourdeaut

Published: 2019-03-19

Hardcover: 176 pages

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An “oddball fairy tale” (The New York Times)—shortlisted for one of France’s highest literary prizes—a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways.A young boy live...

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All That's Bright and Gone: A Novel

by Eliza Nellums

Published: 2019-12-10

Hardcover: 247 pages

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One of Amazon's Best Books of December 2019!Fans of Jodi Picoult and Fredrik Backman will fall for this tenderhearted debut mystery following a young girl on a quest to save her family.I know my brother is dead. But sometimes Mama gets confused.There's plenty about the grownup world that s...

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The Woman in White (Everyman's Library)

by Wilkie Collins

Published: 1991-10-15

Hardcover: 656 pages

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Wilkie Collins's classic thriller took the world by storm on its first appearance in 1859, with everything from dances to perfumes to dresses named in honor of the "woman in white."  The novel's continuing fascination stems in part from a distinctive blend of melodrama, comedy, and realis...

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Mrs. Poe: Target Book Club Edition

by Lynn Cullen

Published: 2014-04-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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The triumphant success of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" compels fledgling poet Frances Osgood to meet her literary idol, a mysterious, complicated man who soon has her under his seductive spell in an all-consuming affair. And when Edgar's frail young wife breaks into their idyll to befriend her rival,...

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Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, Book 9)

by Robert Jordan

Published: 2002-01-07

Mass Market Paperback: 800 pages

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The Wheel of Time ® is a PBS Great American Read Selection! Now in development for TV! Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters.The Wheel of Time turns and Ages ...

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Convenience Store Woman: A Novel

by Sayaka Murata

Published: 2019-09-17

Paperback: 176 pages

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Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book AwardLonglisted for the Believer Book AwardLonglisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in TranslationA Los Angeles Times BestsellerThe English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, ...

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Side Effects May Vary

by Julie Murphy

Published: 2015-07-14

Paperback: 352 pages

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The first book from Julie Murphy, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin'—now a Netflix feature film starring Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Aniston, with a soundtrack by Dolly Parton!For fans of John Green and Rainbow Rowell comes this powerful novel about a girl with canc...

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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

by Zora Neale Hurston

Published: 2020-01-14

Hardcover: 304 pages

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From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (Toni Morrison)—the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God—a collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. In 1925, Barnard stud...