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The Cement Garden

by Ian Mcewan

Published: 1994-01-13

Paperback: 160 pages

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In this tour de force of psychological unease--now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack--McEwan excavates the ruins of childhood and uncovers things that most adults have spent a lifetime forgetting--or denying. "Possesses the suspense and chilling impact of Lord of...

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Cemetery Dance (Pendergast, Bk 9)

by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Published: 2010-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 592 pages

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Pendergast-the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent-returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper ...

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Cemetery Girl

by David Bell

Published: 2011-10-04

Paperback: 400 pages

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Four years after Tom and Abby's 12-year-old daughter vanishes, she is found alive but strangely calm. When the teen refuses to testify against the man connected to her disappearance, Tom decides to investigate the traumatizing case on his own. Nothing can prepare him for what he is about t...

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Centennial: A Novel

by James A. Michener

Published: 2007-05-29

Paperback: 1104 pages

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Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State—is manifested through its people: Lame Beaver, the ...

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Center Cannot Hold, The: My Journey Through Madness

by Elyn R. Saks

Published: 2008-08-12

Paperback: 368 pages

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Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Law School, yet she has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life, and still has on...

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The Center of Everything

by Laura Moriarty

Published: 2004-07-14

Paperback: 352 pages

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"A warm, beguiling book full of hard-won wisdom."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times "The Center of Everything is as realistic and familiar as a summer day in Kansas--brave and gritty, strong voiced and spare."--O, The Oprah Magazine Set in Kerrville, Kansas, The Center of Everything is tol...

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The Center of the Universe: A Memoir

by Nancy Bachrach

Published: 2010-05-04

Paperback: 256 pages

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The story is so improbable, it can only be true: A brilliant woman with a long history of mental illness — who once proclaimed herself to be "the center of the universe" — is miraculously cured by accidental carbon monoxide poisoning aboard the family boat. Nancy Bachrach warns readers, “Don’t...

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Centerville

by Karen Osborn

Published: 2012-10-01

Paperback: 191 pages

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Karen Osborn is the author of three previous novels, Patchwork (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year), Between Earth and Sky, and The River Road. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with her husband and teaches fiction writing at Mt. Holyoke College and Fairfield University. While...

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Centuries of June: A Novel

by Keith Donohue

Published: 2011-05-31

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Keith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking “the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder” (Audrey Niffenegger). His first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller, and his second novel, Angels of Destruction, was hailed as “a magica...

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The Centurion's Wife (Acts of Faith, Book 1)

by Janette Oke, Davis Bunn

Published: 2009-01-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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Janette Oke has dreamed for years of retelling a story in a biblical time frame from a female protagonist's perspective, and Davis Bunn is elated to be working with her again on this sweeping saga of the dramatic events surrounding the birth of Christianity...and the very personal story of...