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The Girl On The Landing

by Paul Torday

Published: 2009-02-19

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A ghost story, a psychological thriller and a tale of love rediscovered, from the bestselling author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN.Elizabeth has been married to Michael for ten years. She has adjusted to a fairly monotonous routine with her wealthy, decent but boring husband. Part of this...

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If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

by Jon Mcgregor

Published: 2003-11-04

Paperback: 275 pages

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Risky in conception, hip and yet soulful, this is a prose poem of a novel -- intense, lyrical, and highly evocative -- with a mystery at its center, which keeps the reader in suspense until the final page. In a tour de force that could be described as Altmanesque, we are invited into the p...

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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

by Scott Adams

Published: 2014-12-30

Paperback: 256 pages

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Everything you want out of life is in that bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out.Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you’ve ever met, including his corporate career, his inventions, his investments, and two restaurants. So how did he go from...

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The Apothecary's Daughter

by Julie Klassen

Published: 2009-01-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of the local apothecary, yearns for more adventure and experience than life in her father's shop and their small village provides. She also longs to know the truth behind her mother's disappearance, which villagers whisper about but her father refuses to discuss. Opportunity...

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Instructions for a Heatwave (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Maggie O'Farrell

Published: 2014-05-06

Paperback: 336 pages

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London, 1976. In the thick of a record-breaking heatwave, Gretta Riordan’s newly retired husband has cleaned out his bank account and vanished. Now, for the first time in years, Gretta calls her children home : Michael Francis, a history teacher whose marriage is failing; Monica, whose b...

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The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken

by Wendell Pierce, Rod Dreher

Published: 2015-09-08

Hardcover: 352 pages

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From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art.   On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's neighborhoods, including Pontch...

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Goodbye, Mickey Mouse

by Len Deighton

Published: 1982-10-12

Hardcover: 337 pages

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In Goodbye Mickey Mouse Len Deighton has written his best novel yet: a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war...and what it was to be in love in the England of 1944. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is Deighton,s fourteenth novel and a vivid evocation of wartime England, the story of a...

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I'll Never Write My Memoirs

by Grace Jones, Paul Morley

Published: 2015-09-29

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Legendary influential performer Grace Jones offers a revealing account of her spectacular career and turbulent life, charting the development of a persona that has made her one of the world’s most recognizable artists.As a singer, model, and actress—a deluxe triple threat—Grace has c...

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The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 2015-09-08

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow’s Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters.The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates’ vivid chronicle of he...

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The Man Who Forgot His Wife

by John O'Farrell

Published: 2012-10-11

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Lots of husbands forget things: they forget that their wife had an important meeting that morning; they forget to pick up the dry cleaning; some of them even forget their wedding anniversary. But Vaughan has forgotten he even has a wife. Her name, her face, their history together, everything she has...