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First Frost

by Sarah Addison Allen

Published: 2015-01-20

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Now a New York Times bestseller   Two magical sisters. One cranky apple tree.     It's October in Bascom, North Carolina, and autumn will not go quietly.  As temperatures drop and leaves begin to turn, the Waverley women are made restless by the whims of their mischievous apple tree....

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The Nightingale: A Novel

by Kristin Hannah

Published: 2017-04-25

Paperback: 608 pages

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A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. France, 1939 - In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye t...

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The Woman I Wanted to Be

by Diane von Furstenberg

Published: 2014-10-28

Hardcover: 256 pages

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One of the most influential, admired, and innovative women of our time: fashion designer, philanthropist, wife, mother, and grandmother, Diane von Furstenberg offers a book about becoming the woman she wanted to be.Diane von Furstenberg started out with a suitcase full of jersey dresses an...

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Homeland and Other Stories

by Barbara Kingsolver

Published: 1998-01-03

Paperback: 256 pages

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The short stories in this collection are spread over landscapes ranging from northern California and the urban Southwest to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St Lucia. In every setting the characters are bound by a strong sense of place and the ties of love and family history:...

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Edge of Eternity

by Ken Follett

Published: 2014-09

Paperback: 1002 pages

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As the decisions made in the corridors of power bring the world to the brink of oblivion, five families from across the globe are brought together in an unforgettable tale of passion and conflict during the Cold War. When Rebecca Hoffmann, a teacher in East Germany, finds herself pursued by the secret...

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The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel

by Larry McMurtry

Published: 2014-05-07

Hardcover: 224 pages

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The triumphant return of Larry McMurtry with this ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West. Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. With The Last Kind Words Saloon he returns again ...

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Perfect Sins: A Mystery

by Jo Bannister

Published: 2014-12-09

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Four years ago, Gabriel Ash was working with the British government investigating hijackings in Somalia. But when his wife and sons disappeared, presumably taken—and probably killed—by pirates, his life fell apart. He has sudden reason to hope when a senior policeman suggests that his ...

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Things You Won't Say: A Novel

by Sarah Pekkanen

Published: 2015-05-26

Paperback: 352 pages

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In this timely and provocative novel, internationally bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen takes us inside a family in crisis and a marriage on the brink after a tragic shooting.How far would you go to save your family?Every morning, as her husband Mike straps on his SIG Sauer and pulls on h...

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The Last Time We Say Goodbye

by Cynthia Hand

Published: 2015-02-10

Hardcover: 400 pages

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From New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Hand comes a gorgeous, heart-wrenching novel of love and loss, which ALA Booklist called "both shatteringly painful and bright with life and hope" in a starred review.Since her brother, Tyler, committed suicide, Lex has been trying to keep her...

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Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully

by Allen Kurzweil

Published: 2015-01-20

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The true account of one boy’s lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil’s search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry, w...