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Ordinary Light: A memoir

by Tracy K. Smith

Published: 2015-03-31

Hardcover: 368 pages

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National Book Award Finalist From the dazzlingly original Pulitzer Prize-winning poet hailed for her “extraordinary range and ambition” (The New York Times Book Review): a quietly potent memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, fait...

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The Shuttle

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Published: 2007-11-01

Paperback: 520 pages

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First published in 1906, The Shuttle is a story of American industry. Rosalie Vanderpoel, daughter of a wealthy American, marries into a British family of aristocrats, only to discover how truly impoverished-both in money and character-that class had become. After many years with her deplorable husband,...

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The Girl on the Train: A Novel by Paula Hawkins | Summary & Analysis

by aBookaDay

Published: 2015-08-12

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Warning: This is an independent addition to The Girl on the Train, meant to enhance your experience of the original book. If you have not yet bought the original copy, make sure to purchase it before buying this unofficial summary from aBookaDay. SPECIAL OFFER $2.99 (Regularly priced: $3...

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Fifty Great Short Stories

Published: 1983-08-01

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50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, a...

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Dangerous Water: A Biography Of The Boy Who Became Mark Twain

by Ron Powers

Published: 1999-05-06

Hardcover: 328 pages

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Twain was a distinctly American writer. From age ten when he boarded his first Mississippi steamer to his first encounter with a traveling “mesmerizer” (from which Twain gained a penchant for acting and a flair for spectacle); from the brooding sense of guilt and fear of eternal damnat...

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The Hole We're In

by Gabrielle Zevin

Published: 2010-03-10

Paperback: 288 pages

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With The Hole We’re In?a bold, timeless, yet all too timely novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America?award-winning author and screenwriter, Gabrielle Zevin, delivers a work that places her in the ranks of our shrewdest social observers and top liter...

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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

by James Shapiro

Published: 2006-06-13

Paperback: 432 pages

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1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and EnglandShakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a ...

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The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century

by Claire Prentice

Published: 2014-10-14

Hardcover: 416 pages

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The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is an Amazon Best Book of the Month October 2014The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is a New York Post “must read”! October 2014Coney Island, summer 1905: a new attraction opened at Luna Park. Within weeks it would be the talk of the nation.For the first time,...

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Flesh and Blood: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta)

by Patricia Cornwell

Published: 2015-06-30

Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages

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It’s Dr. Kay Scarpetta’s birthday, and she’s about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids’ game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they...

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The Greek Coffin Mystery (Penguin Drop Caps)

by Ellery Queen

Published: 2014-04-23

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers—featuring cover art by Jessica HischeIt all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously ill...