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The Impact of a Single Event

by R. L. Prendergast

Published: 2008-08-01

Perfect Paperback: 287 pages

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A terrible car accident occurs. Richard and Sonia, a couple with a crumbling marriage, stop to help the critically injured victims. In the process, they find a 140-year-old journal by the side of the road. Six different people have written in the journal. Though the entries span three centuries, the...

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A Cold Day in Paradise: An Alex McKnight Novel

by Steve Hamilton

Published: 2012-05-22

Paperback: 288 pages

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When first published, A Cold Day in Paradise won both the Edgar and Shamus awards for Best First Novel, launching Steve Hamilton into the top ranks of today's crime writers. Now, see for yourself why this extraordinary novel has galvanized the literary and mystery community as no other boo...

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Bittersweet: A Novel

by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Published: 2014-05-13

Hardcover: 385 pages

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Suspenseful and cinematic, Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider’s hunger to belong.   On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, wild, blue-blo...

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The Rule of Equity

by Jonathan Neville

Published: 2013-03-04

Paperback: 352 pages

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A smart thriller about Native Americans reclaiming their rights in North America. "Dan Brown meets Lee Child meets John Grisham... The Da Vinci Code of American history, with a stunning and satisfying ending that leaves readers wanting more!" After centuries of genocide, relocation, and neglect, Native...

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Journey Into the Flame: Book One of the Rising World Trilogy

by T. R. Williams

Published: 2014-01-07

Paperback: 448 pages

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In 2027, the Great Disruption shook the world. An unexplained solar storm struck the earth, shifting it four degrees south on its axis. Everything went dark. Humanity was on the verge of despair. Then a man named Camden Ford discovered a set of ancient books called the Chronicles of Satray...

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Nana

by Emile Zola

Published: 2014-05-08

Paperback: 236 pages

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Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of...

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Nana (Oxford World's Classics)

by Émile Zola

Published: 2009-09-28

Paperback: 464 pages

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Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was a perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siècle moral corruption. In this new translation, the fate of Nana--the Helen of Troy of the second Empire, and daugh...

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Lucky Us: A Novel

by Amy Bloom

Published: 2014-07-29

Hardcover: 256 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE“My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.”So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose criti...

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* * * Unconvincing,
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Just Like Other Daughters

by Colleen Faulkner

Published: 2013-10-29

Paperback: 288 pages

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Alicia Richards loved her daughter from her very first breath. Days later, when tests confirmed what Alicia already knew--that Chloe had Down syndrome--she didn't falter. Her ex-husband wanted a child who would grow to be a scholar. For Alicia, it's enough that Chloe just is.Now twenty-fiv...

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Fall of a Philanderer (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, No. 14)

by Carola Dunn

Published: 2006-12-01

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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In the summer of 1924, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is off on a holiday by the sea with her step-daughter Belinda, Belinda’s chum Deva, and Daisy’s husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. Daisy is anticipating a relaxing, nondramatic holiday. But D...