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Silent House (Vintage International)

by Orhan Pamuk

Published: 2013-07-02

Paperback: 352 pages

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In a crumbling mansion in a gentrified former fishing village on the Turkish coast, the widow Fatma awaits the annual visit of her grandchildren: Faruk, a dissipated historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgün; and Metin, a high schooler drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riche. B...

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Burial Rites

by Hannah Kent

Published: 2014-04-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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*Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence* A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829.Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged...

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Off the Leash: A Year at the Dog Park

by Matthew Gilbert

Published: 2014-07-29

Hardcover: 240 pages

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The Third Son: A Novel

by Julie Wu

Published: 2014-05-27

Paperback: 336 pages

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In the middle of a terrifying air raid in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Saburo, the least favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a peach forest for cover. It’s there he stumbles on Yoshiko, whose descriptions of her loving family are to Saburo like a glimpse of paradise. Meeting...

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Knowing Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss

by Marianne Leone

Published: 2010-09-07

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe cerebral palsy and was quadriplegic, unable to speak, and wracked by seizures. He died suddenly at age seventeen. In fiercely honest, surprisingly funny, and sometimes heartbreaking prose, Jes...

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Looking for Me: A Novel

by Beth Hoffman

Published: 2014-04-29

Paperback: 368 pages

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Winner of the 2014 Ohioana Book Award for fiction. The latest New York Times bestseller by the beloved author of Saving CeeCee HoneycuttBeth Hoffman’s bestselling debut, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, won admirers and acclaim with its heartwarming story and cast of unforgettably quirky charac...

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The Bean Trees: A Novel

by Barbara Kingsolver

Published: 1998-09-09

Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages

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Barbara Kingsolver's 1988 debut novel is a classic workof American fiction. Now a standard in college literature classes across thenation, and a book that appears in translation across the globe, The BeanTrees is not only a literary masterpiece but a popular triumph—anarrative that read...

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Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel

by Yiyun Li

Published: 2014-02-25

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new novel by Yiyun Li, “one of America’s best young novelists” (Newsweek) and the celebrated author of The Vagrants, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Moving back and forth in time, between America today and China in ...

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For Rent: Dangerous Paradise (For Rent Mysteries)

by Eric James Miller

Published: 2013-08-14

Paperback: 418 pages

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If character shapes destiny, what happens when place shapes character? One by one the residents of a spooky apartment building in Venice Beach, California are about to find out. "For Rent: Dangerous Paradise", the first in a new series of For Rent Mysteries by Eric James Miller, follows spunky young...

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Lifers

by Jane Harvey-Berrick

Published: 2014-02-10

Paperback: 382 pages

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After eight years in prison, twenty-four year old Jordan Kane is the man everyone loves to hate. Forced to return to his hometown while on parole, Jordan soon learns that this small town hasn’t changed since he was sent away. He is the local pariah, shunned by everyone, including his own parents....