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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

by Kate Clifford Larson

Published: 2015-10-06

Hardcover: 302 pages

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They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted away made all the difference. Joe and Rose Kennedy’s strikingly beautiful daughter Rosemary attended exclusive schools, was presented as a debutante to the Queen of England, and traveled th...

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Hiding in Plain Sight: A Novel

by Nuruddin Farah

Published: 2015-09-22

Paperback: 352 pages

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A bold new novel that “augments a body of work worthy of a Nobel Prize” (Kirkus Reviews), from the internationally acclaimed author of Crossbones Nuruddin Farah—“the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years” (The New York Review of Books)—returns...

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Why Not Me?

by Mindy Kaling

Published: 2015-09-15

Hardcover: 240 pages

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From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and the creator and star of The Mindy Project comes a collection of essays that are as hilarious and insightful as they are deeply personal.   In Why Not Me?, Kaling shares her ongoing journ...

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The Perfect Mother: A Novel

by Nina Darnton

Published: 2014-11-25

Paperback: 256 pages

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When an American exchange student is accused of murder, her mother will stop at nothing to save her.A midnight phone call shatters Jennifer Lewis’s carefully orchestrated life. Her daughter, Emma, who’s studying abroad in Spain, has been arrested after the brutal murder of another stud...

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A Sister to Honor: A Novel

by Lucy Ferriss

Published: 2015-01-06

Paperback: 400 pages

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New from the author of The Lost DaughterAfia Satar is studious, modest, and devout. The daughter of a landholding family in northern Pakistan, Afia has enrolled in an American college with the dream of returning to her country as a doctor. But when a photo surfaces online of Afia holding h...

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Keeping Christmas: A Novel

by Dan Walsh

Published: 2015-09-01

Hardcover: 224 pages

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For the first time since their children were born, empty nesters Judith and Stan Winters spent Thanksgiving without the kids, and it's looking like Christmas will be the same. Judith can't bring herself to even start decorating for the holiday; her kids always hung the first ornaments on t...

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A Christmas Carol: And Other Holiday Treasures (Word Cloud Classics)

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2013-10-15

Flexibound: 540 pages

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Most famous in the realm of holiday literature for his 1843 publication, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens was in fact a prolific writer in the yuletide genre and a great contributor to many now-prevalent traditions of the holiday itself. In 1944, A Christmas Carol, Dickens released The C...

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Secrets from a Dangerous Time

by Hunter S. Jones

Published: 2015-09-13

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Chaos reigns in a lawless time filled with revenge and betrayals. Following the American Civil War, the Southern States are reeling under the revenge taken on them by the victors. Casey King must change her name, fake a marriage and forget modern comforts to survive within the world she no...

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Her Name Is Rose: A Novel

by Christine Breen

Published: 2015-04-14

Hardcover: 304 pages

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People used to say Iris Bowen was beautiful, what with the wild weave of her red hair, the high cheekbones, and the way she carried herself like a barefoot dancer through the streets of Ranelagh on the outskirts of Dublin city. But that was a lifetime ago.In a cottage in the west of Irelan...

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Roomies

by Sara Zarr, Tara Altebrando

Published: 2015-06-16

Paperback: 288 pages

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The countdown to college has begun.When Elizabeth receives her freshman-year roommate assignment at the beginning of summer, she shoots off an email to coordinate the basics: TV, microwave, mini-fridge. She can't wait to escape her New Jersey beach town, and her mom, and start life over in...