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The Hurricane Sisters: A Novel

by Dorothea Benton Frank

Published: 2014-06-03

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long, well into September. Often people's lives reflect the weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a story.Once again Dorothea Benton Frank takes us deep into the heart of her magical South Carolina Lowcountry on a tumultuous jou...

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Sacred Time: A Novel (Hegi, Ursula)

by Ursula Hegi

Published: 2003-12-02

Hardcover: 256 pages

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The bestselling author of Stones from the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but also flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parents' Studebaker, t...

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The Silkworm (A Cormoran Strike Novel)

by Robert Galbraith

Published: 2014-06-19

Hardcover: 455 pages

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When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days-as he has done before-and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it bec...

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White is for Witching

by Helen Oyeyemi

Published: 2014-02-04

Paperback: 304 pages

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Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award One of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists From the acclaimed author of Boy, Snow, Bird There’s something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and burie...

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The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up: A Breakthrough Medical Plan to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

by Steven Masley

Published: 2014-02-04

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The revolutionary new program presented in this book can help everyone who follows it to have a healthy heart.In THE 30-DAY HEART TUNE-UP Dr. Masley will first help you to determine your heart health. He will then take you step-by-step through a program to tune up your heart, energy, waist...

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You Only Get Letters from Jail

by Jodi Angel

Published: 2013-07-16

Paperback: 288 pages

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Jodi Angel’s second story collection, You Only Get Letters from Jail, chronicles the lives of young men trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. From picking up women at a bar hours after mom’s overdose to coveting a drowned girl to catching rattlesnakes with gas...

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Frank: The Voice

by James Kaplan

Published: 2010-11-02

Hardcover: 800 pages

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Bestselling author James Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in a triumphant new biography that includes many rarely seen photographs. Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twenti­eth century—infinitely charismatic, lionized and notori­ous in equal measure. But despite his ma...

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World War One: A Layman's Guide

by Scott Addington

Published: 2014-04-25

Paperback: 196 pages

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This guide has been written specifically for people with little or no prior knowledge of the First World War and will be an ideal introduction to what can be a very complicated and daunting subject. Written in an engaging way, this is more like a chat down the pub rather than a heavy historical text,...

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The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby

by Jody Cantrell Dyer

Published: 2013-03-07

Paperback: 288 pages

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"No one just adopts." From the very first steps of acknowledging adoption as a choice to the final document that seals the deal, Jody Cantrell Dyer paints a raw, warm, heartbreaking and eventually triumphant portrayal that narrates the entire adoption process through compassionate and humorous prose....

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The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime)

by Ariel Winter

Published: 2013-08-06

Paperback: 605 pages

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THERE’S NEVER BEEN A BOOK LIKE THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH   A breathtaking first novel written in the form of three separate crime novels, each set in a different decade and penned in the style of a different giant of the mystery genre.   1931— The body found in the gutter in France l...