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The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir

by Ruth Wariner

Published: 2016-01-05

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A riveting, deeply affecting true story of one girl’s coming-of-age in a polygamist family.RUTH WARINER was the thirty-ninth of her father’s forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a r...

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The Muralist: A Novel

by B. A. Shapiro

Published: 2015-11-03

Hardcover: 352 pages

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When Alizée Benoit, a young American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940, no one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her arts patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. ...

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A Line of Blood: A Novel

by Ben McPherson

Published: 2015-09-29

Hardcover: 416 pages

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Whose secrets cut deeper?Your family's.Whose secrets do you fear?Your neighbor's.Whose secrets can kill?Your own.For Alex Mercer, his wife, Millicent, and their precocious eleven-year-old son, Max, are everything—his little tribe that makes him feel all's right with the world. But when h...

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Wolf

by Mo Hayder

Published: 2015-04-14

Paperback: 416 pages

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?[A] destined-to-be classic . . . Hayder’s work and characters are worth the unending nightmares they will inspire.”?The New York Times Book ReviewEdgar Award winner and international best-seller Mo Hayder is known for her nightmarishly dark, impeccably-plotted thrillers. In Wolf, now ...

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Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We're Saying Now

by Ann Imig

Published: 2015-04-07

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Irreverent, thought-provoking, hilarious, and edgy: a collection of personal stories celebrating motherhood, featuring #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jenny Lawson and Jennifer Weiner, and many other notable writers.Listen to Your Mother is a fantastic awakening of why our mothers ar...

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Charlie Martz and Other Stories: The Unpublished Stories

by Elmore Leonard

Published: 2015-06-16

Hardcover: 256 pages

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A collection of fifteen stories, eleven of which have never been previously published, from the early career of bestselling American master Elmore Leonard.Over his long and illustrious career, Elmore Leonard was recognized as one of the greatest crime writers of all time, the author of doz...

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Along the Infinite Sea

by Beatriz Williams

Published: 2015-11-03

Hardcover: 464 pages

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An epic story of star-crossed lovers in pre-war Europe collides with a woman on the run in the swinging '60s, in another riveting historical novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers and Tiny Little Thing.Each of the three Schuyler sisters has her own world-clas...

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Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive

by Bruce Schneier

Published: 2012-02-14

Hardcover: 384 pages

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In today's hyper-connected society, understanding the mechanisms of trust is crucial. Issues of trust are critical to solving problems as diverse as corporate responsibility, global warming, and the political system. In this insightful and entertaining book, Schneier weaves together ideas from across...

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The Planet of the Jews

by Philip Graubart

Published: 1999-07-01

Paperback: 201 pages

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Planet of the Jews is a story within a story. After all, when Judah Loeb, a New York comic book editor, receives a manuscript from a strange Hasidic couple, he thinks nothing of it. Until he reads it. Then, suddenly, Judah is caught up in an enchanting sci-fi fable of the future, a time...

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The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker

by Sami al Jundi, Jen Marlowe

Published: 2011-02-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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As a teenager in Palestine, Sami al Jundi had one ambition: overthrowing Israeli occupation. With two friends, he began to build a bomb to use against the police. But when it exploded prematurely, killing one of his friends, al Jundi was caught and sentenced to ten years in prison. It was ...