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Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty

by Jerry Oppenheimer

Published: 2013-08-13

Hardcover: 496 pages

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From the founders of the international health-care behemoth Johnson & Johnson in the late 1800s to the contemporary Johnsons of today, such as billionaire New York Jets owner Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV, all is revealed in this scrupulously researched, unauthorized biography by New York...

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Falling Out of Time

by David Grossman

Published: 2014-03-25

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Following his magisterial To the End of the Land, the universally acclaimed Israeli author brings us an incandescent fable of parental grief––concise, elemental, a powerfully distilled experience of understanding and acceptance, and of art’s triumph over death.   In Falling Out of T...

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* * * Informative,
Poorly Written,
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Love and Treasure

by Ayelet Waldman

Published: 2014-04-01

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A spellbinding new novel of contraband masterpieces, tragic love, and the unexpected legacies of forgotten crimes, Ayelet Waldman’s Love and Treasure weaves a tale around the fascinating, true history of the Hungarian Gold Train in the Second World War. In 1945 on the outskirts of S...

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Casebook: A novel

by Mona Simpson

Published: 2014-04-15

Hardcover: 336 pages

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From the acclaimed and award-winning author of Anywhere But Here and My Hollywood, a powerful new novel about a young boy’s quest to uncover the mysteries of his unraveling family. What he discovers turns out to be what he least wants to know: the inner workings of his parents’ lives. ...

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Three Brothers: A Novel

by Peter Ackroyd

Published: 2014-03-04

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Rapier-sharp, witty, intriguing, and mysterious: a new novel from Peter Ackroyd set in the London of the 1960s. Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, a trio of brothers born on a postwar council estate in Camden Town. Marked from the start by curious coin...

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* * * * * Addictive,
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Be Careful What You Wish For (Clifton Chronicles)

by Jeffrey Archer

Published: 2014-03-11

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?When Ross Buchanan is fo...

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* * * * Graphic,
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The Serpent of Venice: A Novel

by Christopher Moore

Published: 2014-04-22

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters—the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago�...

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* * * * Difficult,
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In Paradise: A Novel

by Peter Matthiessen

Published: 2014-04-08

Hardcover: 256 pages

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A profoundly searching new novel by a writer of incomparable range, power, and achievement. In the winter of 1996, more than a hundred women and men of diverse nationality, background, and belief gather at the site of a former concentration camp for an unprecedented purpose: a weeklo...

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The Legal Limit (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Martin Clark

Published: 2009-06-02

Paperback: 416 pages

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Gates Hunt is a compulsive felon, serving a stiff penitentiary sentence for selling cocaine. His brother, Mason, however, has escaped their bitter, impoverished upbringing to become the commonwealth's attorney for their rural hometown in Virginia, where he enjoys a contented life with his ...

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* * * Inspiring,
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Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart

by Carol Wall

Published: 2014-03-04

Hardcover: 304 pages

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"In this profoundly moving memoir, Owita teaches Wall how to find grace amid heartbreak and to accept that beauty exists because it is fleeting—as in her garden, as in life." —People, 4 stars"A perfect spring awakening." —Good HousekeepingA true story of a unique friendship betwee...