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Paper Moon: A Novel

by Joe David Brown

Published: 2002-04-26

Paperback: 320 pages

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The classic tale of a female Huck Finn, Peter Bogdanovich's film version of the book was nominated for four Academy Awards. Set in the darkest days of the Great Depression, this is the timeless story of an 11-year-old orphan's rollicking journey through the Deep South with a con man who ju...

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The Best of Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado, and 30 Others

by Edgar Allan Poe

Published: 2006-03

Paperback: 232 pages

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This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic™ includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Poe’s allusions and complicated vocabulary. Edgar Allan Poe—his name conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease a...

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Sima's Undergarments for Women: A Novel

by Ilana Stanger-Ross

Published: 2010-05-25

Paperback: 320 pages

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Read Ilana Stanger-Ross's posts on the Penguin Blog. A heartwarming tale of an unlikely friendship amid love, loss, and lingerie In the basement of her Brooklyn apartment, Sima Goldner welcomes women of all shapes and sizes with warmth, acceptance-and a bra that gives them the support a...

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The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

by Ben Tarnoff

Published: 2014-03-20

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The unforgettable story of the birth of modern America and the western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity The Bohemians begins in 1860s San Francisco. The Gold Rush has ended; the Civil War threatens to tear apart the country. Far from the front lines, the city at the...

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Shaman

by Kim Stanley Robinson

Published: 2013-09-03

Hardcover: 464 pages

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Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy and 2312, has, on many occasions, imagined our future. Now, in SHAMAN, he brings our past to life as never before.There is Thorn, a shaman himself. He lives to pass down his ...

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A Case of Need

by Michael Crichton

Published: 2013-07-23

Kindle Edition: 434 pages

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The death of a doctor’s daughter may be malpractice—or murder—in this novel by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author: “I loved it” (Stephen King). In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall’s teenage daug...

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I'll Cross the River

by C. Hope Flinchbaugh

Published: 2008-05-01

Paperback: 306 pages

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Lay still pretend you are dead, Young Soon told her trembling young son as she lay, bleeding, on the ground, and nestling her nursing baby closer. How could the daily messages blaring from the loud speakers be wrong? Loyal communists believe government announcements that North Korea is the only country...

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The Girl With No Name: The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys

by Marina Chapman, Vanessa James, Lynne Barrett-Lee

Published: 2014-04-15

Paperback: 336 pages

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The amazing story of a girl who overcomes unique hardship and deprivation?growing up with a troop of capuchin monkeys?to find ultimate redemption.- As seen on The Today ShowIn 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Ch...

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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

by Helen Fielding

Published: 2001-02-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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With another devastatingly hilarious, ridiculous, unnervingly accurate take on modern womanhood, Bridget Jones is back. (v.g.) Monday 27 January "7:15 a.m. Hurrah! The wilderness years are over. For four weeks and five days now have been in functional relationship with adult male, ther...

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Ten Days in a Mad-House

by Nellie Bly

Published: 2011-07-07

Paperback: 96 pages

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Nellie Bly took an undercover journalist assignment to pretend to be insane to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at mental asylums. After a night of practicing deranged expressions in front of a mirror, she checked into a working-class boarding-house where she feigned insanity s...