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The Violets of March

by Sarah Jio, Lyssa Browne (narrator)

Published: 2011-06-15

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In her twenties, Emily Wilson was on top of the world: she had a bestselling novel, a husband plucked from the pages of GQ, and a one-way ticket to happily ever after. Ten years later, the tide has turned on Emily's good fortune. So when her great-aunt Bee invites her to spend the month of March on Bainbridge...

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* * * * Romantic,
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The Violets of March: A Novel

by Sarah Jio

Published: 2011-04-26

Paperback: 304 pages

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A heartbroken woman stumbled upon a diary and steps into the life of its anonymous author. In her twenties, Emily Wilson was on top of the world: she had a bestselling novel, a husband plucked from the pages of GQ, and a one-way ticket to happily ever after. Ten years later, the tide ha...

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Violin

by Anne Rice

Published: 1999-09-07

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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In the grand manner of Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's new novel moves across time and the continents, from nineteenth-century Vienna to a St. Charles Greek Revival mansion in present-day New Orleans to dazzling capitals of the modern-day world, telling a story of two charismatic figures bound...

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The Violin of Auschwitz: A Novel

by Maria Angels Anglada

Published: 2010-08-31

Hardcover: 128 pages

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An international sensation now available in English for the first time, The�Violin of Auschwitz�is the unforgettable story of one man's refusal to surrender his dignity in the face of history's greatest atrocity.In the winter of 1991, at a concert in Krakow, an older woman with a marvelous...

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The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

by Sam Kean

Published: 2013-07-16

Paperback: 432 pages

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From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes more incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA. In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In THE VIOLINIST'S THUMB, he explores the won...

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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

by Nathan Wolfe

Published: 2011-10-11

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Dynamic young Stanford biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic pandemics. In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by sid...

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Virals

by Kathy Reichs

Published: 2011-08-23

Paperback: 480 pages

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Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage "sci-philes" who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina. When the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing on...

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The Virgin Blue

by Tracy Chevalier

Published: 2003-06-24

Paperback: 320 pages

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Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin—two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turn...

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The Virgin Cure

by Ami McKay

Published: 2012-06-26

Paperback: 368 pages

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The much-anticipated follow-up to The Birth House, The Virgin Cure secures Ami McKay's place as one of our most powerful storytellers. "I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart." The Virgin Cure begins in the t...

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The Virgin Cure: A Novel

by Ami McKay

Published: 2012-06-26

Hardcover: 336 pages

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From #1 international bestselling author Ami McKay comes The Virgin Cure, the story of a young girl abandoned and forced to fend for herself in the poverty and treachery of post-Civil War New York City.McKay, whose debut novel The Birth House made headlines around the world, returns with a...