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The Year We Left Home: A Novel

by Jean Thompson

Published: 2012-02-07

Paperback: 352 pages

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A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, The Year We Left Home is National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson’s mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family that captures the turbulent history of the country at large.Named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Peopl...

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Year Zero: A Novel

by Rob Reid

Published: 2013-04-30

Paperback: 384 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLow-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. The entire cosmos, they tell hi...

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* * * Beautiful,
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The Yearling (Aladdin Classics)

by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Published: 2001-09-01

Paperback: 528 pages

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No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alli...

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The Yearling

by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Published: 1967

Unknown Binding: 428 pages

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The Years of Rice and Salt

by Kim Stanley Robinson

Published: 2003-06-03

Mass Market Paperback: 784 pages

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With the incomparable vision and breathtaking detail that brought his now-classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author KIM STANLEY ROBINSON boldly imagines an alternate history of the last seven hundred years. In his grandest work yet, the acclaimed storyteller constructs a world...

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Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

by William Butler Yeats

Published: 2000-03-19

Paperback: 544 pages

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No other series of classic texts achieves the editorial standard of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with contextual and critical materials that bring the work to life for students. Careful editing, first-rate translation, thorough explanatory annotations,...

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The Yellow Birds: A Novel

by Kevin Powers

Published: 2013-04-30

Paperback: 256 pages

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Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq"The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighte...

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* * * * * Dramatic,
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Yellow Crocus: A Novel

by Laila Ibrahim

Published: 2010-12-17

Paperback: 238 pages

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Moments after her birth to the mistress of a sprawling Virginia plantation, Lisbeth Wainwright is entrusted to Mattie, an enslaved wet nurse. From then on, Mattie serves as Lisbeth's stand-in mother, nursing her, singing her to sleep, and soothing her in the night. And yet mothering Lisbeth tears Mattie...

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* * * * Interesting,
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The Yellow House: A Novel

by Patricia Falvey

Published: 2011-02-07

Paperback: 368 pages

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THE YELLOW HOUSE delves into the passion and politics of Northern Ireland at the beginning of the 20th Century. Eileen O'Neill's family is torn apart by religious intolerance and secrets from the past. Determined to reclaim her ancestral home and reunite her family, Eileen begins working a...

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* * * Dramatic,
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A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel

by Michael Dorris

Published: 2003-03-05

Paperback: 384 pages

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Michael Dorris has crafted a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship. Starting in the present day and moving backward, the novel is told in the voices of the three women: fifteen-year-ol...