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The Good Luck of Right Now: A Novel

by Matthew Quick

Published: 2015-02-10

Paperback: 304 pages

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From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, comes The Good Luck of Right Now, a funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, acceptance, and Richard Gere—an entertaining and inspiring tale that will leave you pondering the rhythms ...

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The Last Good Paradise: A Novel

by Tatjana Soli

Published: 2015-02-10

Hardcover: 320 pages

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From Tatjana Soli, the bestselling author of The Lotus Eaters and The Forgetting Tree, comes a black comedy set on an island resort, where guests attempting to flee their troubles realize they can't escape who they are.On a small, unnamed coral atoll in the South Pacific, a group of troubl...

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Dust

by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Published: 2014-10-07

Paperback: 384 pages

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A Washington Post Notable BookWhen a young man is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi, his grief-stricken father and sister bring his body back to their crumbling home in the Kenyan drylands. But the murder has stirred up memories long since buried, precipitating a series of events no on...

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The Front Porch Prophet

by Raymond L Atkins

Published: 2008-07-01

Hardcover: 308 pages

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What do a trigger-happy bootlegger with pancreatic cancer, an alcoholic helicopter pilot who is afraid to fly, and a dead guy with his feet in a camp stove have in common? What are the similarities between a fire department that cannot put out fires, a policeman who has a historic cabin fa...

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Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France (The Resistance Trilogy)

by Caroline Moorehead

Published: 2014-10-28

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the absorbing story of a French village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War II—told in full for the first time.Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the m...

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Oh Dear Silvia: A Novel

by Dawn French

Published: 2014-06-03

Paperback: 352 pages

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Oh Dear Silvia by Dawn French, the celebrated English actress, bestselling author, and comedian, is the clever, touching, and compelling story of one mysterious woman trapped in a coma after a fall from a balcony. Now, lying unconscious in a hospital bed, Silvia is plagued by a stream of ...

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The Transall Saga

by Gary Paulsen

Published: 2011-03-08

Paperback: 256 pages

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Mark's solo camping trip in the desert turns into a terrifying and thrilling odyssey when a mysterious beam of light transports him to another time on what appears to be another planet. As Mark searches for a pathway back to his own time on Earth, he must make a new life in a new world. Hi...

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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War

by Lynsey Addario

Published: 2015-02-05

Hardcover: 368 pages

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"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review)War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, ...

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Falling to Earth

by Kate Southwood

Published: 2013-03-05

Paperback: 272 pages

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March 18, 1925. The day begins as any other rainy, spring day in the small settlement of Marah, Illinois. But the town lies directly in the path of the worst tornado in US history, which will descend without warning midday and leave the community in ruins. By nightfall, hundreds will be ho...

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* * * * Inspiring,
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Lost and Found in Prague

by Kelly Jones

Published: 2015-01-06

Paperback: 352 pages

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Kelly Jones, the author of The Woman Who Heard Color transports readers to a dreary Good Friday in Prague, where a mysterious death sets off a tangled chain of events that inexorably draws three strangers together—and forever changes their lives…Just after the fall of the Berlin Wall,...