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The Pollyanna Plan

by Talli Roland

Published: 2014-03-11

Kindle Edition: 237 pages

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Is finding true love as easy as an attitude change?Thirty-something Emma Beckett has always looked down on 'the glass is half full' optimists, believing it's better to be realistic than delusional. But when she loses her high-powered job and fiancé in the same week, even Emma has difficul...

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* * * * Dramatic,
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If I Fall, If I Die

by Michael Christie

Published: 2015-01-20

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A heartfelt and wondrous debut about family, fear, and skateboarding, that Karen Russell calls "A bruiser of a tale . . . a death-defying coming-of-age story." Will has never been outside, at least not since he can remember. And he has certainly never gotten to know anyone other than his m...

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* * * * Interesting,
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My Sunshine Away

by M.O. Walsh

Published: 2015-02-10

Hardcover: 320 pages

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An NPR Best Book of the YearInstant New York Times BestsellerAn Entertainment Weekly 'Must List' Pick“The last page is as satisfying as the first.” —Kathryn Stockett“I really loved this book... I can't praise it enough.”—Anne Rice“It's a book to read and reread, one that wil...

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* * * Pointless,
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James: A Novel

by Emma Hooper

Published: 2015-01-20

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A gorgeous literary debut about unlikely heroes, lifelong promises, and last great adventures.Otto,The letter began, in blue ink,I’ve gone. I’ve never seen the water, so I’ve gone there. Don’t worry, I’ve left you the truck. I can walk. I will try to remember to come back.Yours (...

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* * * Interesting,
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The Sea-Wolf (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Jack London

Published: 1999-12-23

Paperback: 256 pages

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Hailed by critics as one of the greatest sea stories ever written, this rousing adventure offers a fascinating combination of gritty realism and sublime lyricism in its portrayal of an elemental conflict. Jack London began his career at sea, and his shipboard experiences imbue The Sea-Wolf...

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Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I

by Charles Spencer

Published: 2015-01-20

Hardcover: 352 pages

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On August 18, 1648, with no relief from the siege in sight, the royalist garrison holding Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwell’s army firmly ended the rule of Charles I of England. To send a clear message to the fallen monarch, the rebels executed four of the senior officers...

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* * * * Informative,
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson

Published: 2015-03-10

Hardcover: 430 pages

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#1 New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the LusitaniaOn May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New Y...

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World Gone By: A Novel

by Dennis Lehane

Published: 2015-03-10

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of The Given Day and Live by Night, returns with a psychologically and morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in which Joe Coughlin must confront the cost o...

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We Are Pirates: A Novel

by Daniel Handler

Published: 2015-02-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A boat has gone missing. Goods have been stolen. There is blood in the water. It is the twenty-first century and a crew of pirates is terrorizing the San Francisco Bay.Phil is a husband, a father, a struggling radio producer, and the owner of a large condo with a view of the water. But he'...

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Tesla: A Portrait with Masks: A Novel

by Vladimir Pistalo

Published: 2015-01-06

Paperback: 384 pages

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An electric novel of the extraordinary life of one of the twentieth century’s most prodigious and colorful inventorsNikola Tesla was a man forever misunderstood. From his boyhood in what is present-day Croatia, where his father, a Serbian Orthodox priest, dismissed his talents, to hi...