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The Sharp Hook of Love

by Sherry Jones

Published: 2014-10-07

Paperback: 384 pages

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The first retelling of the passionate, twelfth-century love story since the discovery of 113 lost love letters between Heloise d’Argenteuil and Pierre Abelard—the original Romeo and Juliet."While I sleep you never leave me, and after I wake I see you, as soon as I open my eyes, even be...

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The President's Hat

by Antoine Laurain

Published: 2013-09-03

Paperback: 208 pages

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This prize-winning French bestseller is a charming fable about the power of a hat that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through French life during the Mitterrand years.Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when Preside...

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My Conference Can Beat Your Conference: Why the SEC Still Rules College Football

by Paul Finebaum, Gene Wojciechowski

Published: 2014-08-05

Hardcover: 288 pages

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An all-access pass into the powerhouse teams and passionate fanbases of the legendary Southeastern Conference, from one of the most influential men in college football: ESPN’s Paul Finebaum.Proud owner of 14 prestigious college football programs, producing seven consecutive national cham...

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The Grifters

by Jim Thompson

Published: 1990-10-03

Paperback: 189 pages

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Roy DIllon seems too handsome and well-mannered to be a professional con man. Lilly Dillon looks too young--and loves Roy a little too intensely--to be taken for his mother. Moira Langtry is getting too old to keep on living off the kindness of male strangers. And Carol Roberg seems too innocent to be...

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Island of a Thousand Springs

by Sarah Lark

Published: 2014-10-03

Kindle Edition: 511 pages

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London, 1732: Nora Reed, the daughter of a merchant, falls hopelessly in love with her father's clerk, Simon. Despite their differing social class, the star-crossed lovers dream of a future on a tropical island - until tragedy strikes, and Nora must face a life without her soulmate. Hopele...

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Tehran Noir (Akashic Noir)

Published: 2014-10-07

Paperback: 280 pages

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"This entry in Akashic's noir series takes the gritty sensibilities born out of American film and fiction to Tehran."--Publishers WeeklyLaunched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each...

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Long Time Coming: A Novel

by Robert Goddard

Published: 2010-03-02

Paperback: 420 pages

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Stephen Swan is amazed when he hears that the uncle he thought had been killed in the Blitz is actually alive. For nearly four decades, Eldritch Swan has been locked away in an Irish prison and now, at last, has been released. Shocked and suspicious, Stephen listens to the old man’s story and is caught...

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A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Henrik Ibsen

Published: 1992-02-21

Paperback: 80 pages

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One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, A Doll's House richly displays the genius with which Henrik Ibsen pioneered modern, realistic prose drama. In the central character of Nora, Ibsen epitomized the human struggle against the humiliating constraints of social c...

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I Heart Ed Small

by Shirley Johnson

Published: 2012-08-01

Paperback: 374 pages

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In the summer of 1968 Baby Hunnicutt's mama dies and her daddy gives her to her aunt to raise. The only trouble is Aunt Clem works all day and leaves Baby in the hands of her teenage twins. Stoic protector Allen and kind and gentle Jeffrey, along with the help of their best friend, the unwashed and...

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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson

Published: 2014-10-07

Kindle Edition: 560 pages

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Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens....