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* * * * Beautiful,
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The Secrets of Midwives

by Sally Hepworth

Published: 2015-02-10

Hardcover: 320 pages

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"With empathy and keen insight, Sally Hepworth delivers a page-turning novel about the complex, lovely, and even heartbreaking relationships between mothers and daughters.-Emily GiffinThree generations of women Secrets in the present and from the pastA captivating tale of life, loss, and l...

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Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film

by Andrew Hodges

Published: 2014-11-10

Paperback: 768 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira KnightleyIt is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented t...

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* * Gloomy,
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Amongst Women

by John McGahern

Published: 1991-09-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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Set in rural Ireland, this uncompromising family drama revolves around Michael Moran, the father of five. A member of the IRA during the time of The Troubles, years ago, Michael has apparently repressed violent traumas which, we are led to believe, are responsible for his withdrawal from society and...

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The Hypnotists: Book 1

by Gordon Korman

Published: 2013-07-30

Hardcover: 240 pages

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An all-new, mesmerizing adventure from the masterful Gordon Korman!Jackson Opus has always been persuasive, but he doesn't know that he's descended from the two most powerful hypnotist bloodlines on the planet. He's excited to be accepted into a special program at the Sentia Institute -- b...

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* * * * * Optimistic,
Insightful,
Informative

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Mr. Samuel's Penny: An Elizabeth Parrot Landers Mystery (Elizabeth Parrot Landers Mysteries)

by Treva Melvin

Published: 2014-11-04

Paperback: 264 pages

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It's 1972 and fourteen-year-old New Yorker Elizabeth Landers is sent to the sleepy town of Ahoskie, North Carolina to spend the summer with relatives. Her expectation of boredom is quickly dispelled when police sirens and flashing lights draw her to a horrible scene at the Danbury Bridge. Mr. Samuel,...

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The Price of Salt

by Patricia Highsmith

Published: 2012-01-26

Paperback: 224 pages

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This reprint edition is based on the original and unrevised 1952 version of “The Price of Salt” whose copyright was never renewed in the 28th year following publication as required for renewal, and is not the Naiad Press version of 1984 which has slight revisions and an afterword. TH...

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Article 5

by Kristen Simmons

Published: 2013-01-08

Paperback: 384 pages

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New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned.The Bill of Rights has been revoked and replaced with the Moral Statutes.There are no more police—instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior—instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. ...

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* * * * Epic,
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The Hunger Games Box Set: Foil Edition

by Suzanne Collins

Published: 2014-09-30

Paperback: 0 pages

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All three Hunger Games books in one gorgeous package!The extraordinary, ground breaking New York Times bestsellers--The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay--are available now in a deluxe foil boxset edition.

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His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass

by Philip Pullman

Published: 2002

Paperback: 544 pages

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Lyra Belacqua tries to prevent kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments, helps Will Parry search for his father, and finds that she and Will are caught in a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by her uTitle: His Dark MaterialsAuthor: Pu...

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* * Pointless,
Confusing

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The First Bad Man: A Novel

by Miranda July

Published: 2015-01-13

Hardcover: 288 pages

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From the acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and bestselling author of No One Belongs Here More Than You, a spectacular debut novel that is so heartbreaking, so dirty, so tender, so funny—so Miranda July—that readers will be blown away.Here is Cheryl, a tightly-wound, vulnerable woman who liv...