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Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania

by Andy Behrman

Published: 2003-02-11

Paperback: 304 pages

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Electroboy is an emotionally frenzied memoir that reveals with kaleidoscopic intensity the terrifying world of manic depression. For years Andy Behrman hid his raging mania behind a larger-than-life personality. He sought a high wherever he could find one and changed jobs the way some peop...

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Last Guard Out: A Riveting Account by the Last Guard to Leave Alcatraz

by Jim Albright

Published: 2008-03-25

Paperback: 212 pages

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The Last Guard Out is the fascinating true story of one man's life as a guard behind the merciless concrete walls of Alcatraz. I was newly assigned to the infamous island penitentiary of Alcatraz. Reporting to Alcatraz required me to uproot my wife Cathy and young son Kenny from Colorado to California....

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Chinese Cooking for Diamond Thieves

by Dave Lowry

Published: 2014-07-08

Paperback: 288 pages

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Driving home after being kicked out of college, Tucker meets and picks up the mysterious Corinne Chang at a rest stop. Infatuated, and with nothing better to do, he ends up with her in St. Louis, where he gets a job as a chef in a Chinese restaurant. Even though he’s a gwai lo—a foreig...

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The Language of Paradise: A Novel

by Barbara Klein Moss

Published: 2015-04-06

Hardcover: 416 pages

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Set in nineteenth-century New England, this exquisite novel tests a woman’s love against her husband’s utopian quest.Sophy Hedge, the artistic daughter of the town's minister, falls in love with Gideon Birdsall, a driven theology student assisting her father with a Hebrew lexicon. Soph...

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by Jacqueline Winspear

Published: 2011-02-15

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Maisie Dobbs Bundle #2, An Incomplete Revenge and Among the MadBooks 5 and 6 in the New York Times Bestselling Series"An outstanding historical series . . . deeply empathetic." (The New York Times Book Review)An Incomplete Revenge, by Jacqueline Winspear(Maisie Dobbs novel #5)With the coun...

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Maisie Dobbs Bundle #1, Pardonable Lies and Messenger of Truth: Books 3 and 4 in the New York Times Bestselling Series (Maisie Dobbs Novels)

by Jacqueline Winspear

Published: 2011-02-15

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Maisie Dobbs Bundle #1, Pardonable Lies and Messenger of TruthBooks 3 and 4 in the New York Times Bestselling Series"An outstanding historical series . . . deeply empathetic." (The New York Times Book Review)Pardonable Lies, by Jacqueline Winspear(Maisie Dobbs novel #3)In the third novel o...

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I Refuse

by Per Petterson

Published: 2015-04-07

Hardcover: 224 pages

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A masterful new novel from Per Petterson, who "provides one of literature's greatest gifts … a welcome refuge from our cacophonous world" (NPR)Per Petterson's hotly anticipated new novel, I Refuse, is the work of an internationally acclaimed novelist at the height of his powers. In Norwa...

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Winter Street: A Novel

by Elin Hilderbrand

Published: 2015-10-13

Paperback: 272 pages

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In bestseller Elin Hilderbrand's first Christmas novel, a family gathers on Nantucket for a holiday filled with surprises.Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray. Patrick, the eldest...

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Berlin Poplars

by Anne B Ragde

Published: 2009-12-01

Paperback: 298 pages

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Just before Christmas on a farm in Northern Norway, 80-year-old Anna Neshov, matriarch of a troubled family, is taken gravely ill. Her three sons have been quietly immersed in their work: one an undertaker, one a window-dresser, and the eldest running the family farm, but now they are forc...

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The Witness: A Novel

by Naomi Kryske

Published: 2012-07-31

Paperback: 496 pages

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Jennifer Jeffries, a young Texan traveling in London, is kidnapped, becoming the victim of a violent assault. When she survives, the British detective in charge of her case needs her to testify against the serial killer who attacked her. Led by a tough ex-Special Forces sergeant with a war...