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No Great Mischief: A Novel

by Alistair MacLeod

Published: 2011-11-28

Paperback: 304 pages

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Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: “This sturdily textured debut novel never hesitates or meanders.”?Library Journal Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief, the story of a fierc...

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The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

Published: 1992-12-01

Paperback: 128 pages

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A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial in...

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A Sudden, Fearful Death

by Anne Perry

Published: 1994-08-29

Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages

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Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had worked with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea, is found strangled to death in a London hospital. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime. Gradually, Monk assembles the portrait of a remarkable woman. Yet he also discerns...

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Pleasantville (Jay Porter Series)

by Attica Locke

Published: 2015-04-21

Hardcover: 432 pages

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In this sophisticated thriller, lawyer Jay Porter, hero of Attica Locke’s bestseller Black Water Rising, returns to fight one last case, only to become embroiled once again in a dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in power are willing to go to win.Fifteen ye...

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Sky Jumpers: Book 1

by Peggy Eddleman

Published: 2014-09-23

Paperback: 304 pages

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Escape one danger. Jump into another. . . .   “Eddleman brings a strong sense of atmosphere to this post-apocalyptic coming-of-age piece, and the underlying message—that it’s possible to contribute in unexpected ways—is a positive one.” —Publishers Weekly   Twelve-year-old Ho...

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The Liar

by Nora Roberts

Published: 2015-04-14

Hardcover: 512 pages

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The extraordinary new novel by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Collector. Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions … The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an adulterer and a liar...

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The Only Ones

by Carola Dibbell

Published: 2015-03-10

Paperback: 344 pages

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O, The Oprah Magazine's Top 10 Favorite Books of 2015.Washington Post Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2015."Fascinating... A heart-piercing tale of love, desire and acceptance. Readers will be mesmerized by Dibbell’s staccato prose as much as they are by the harrowing circumstanc...

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Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism: Secrets of

by Micah Goodman

Published: 2015-05-01

Hardcover: 296 pages

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A publishing sensation long at the top of the best-seller lists in Israel, the original Hebrew edition of Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism has been called the most successful book ever published in Israel on the preeminent medieval Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides. The works of ...

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The Night Gardener

by Jonathan Auxier

Published: 2015-05-05

Paperback: 384 pages

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This much-anticipated follow-up to Jonathan Auxier’s exceptional debut, Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, is a Victorian ghost story with shades of Washington Irving and Henry James. More than just a spooky tale, it’s also a moral fable about human greed and the power of storytellin...

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The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom

by Christopher Healy

Published: 2013-04-30

Paperback: 480 pages

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Prince Liam. Prince Frederic. Prince Duncan. Prince Gustav. You’ve never heard of them, have you? These are the princes who saved Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, and Rapunzel, respectively, and yet, thanks to those lousy bards who wrote the tales, you likely know them only as Pr...