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Land of a Hundred Wonders

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Les Miserables (Signet Classics)

by Victor Hugo

Published: 2013-10-01

Mass Market Paperback: 1488 pages

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The only completely unabridged paperback edition of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece—a sweeping tale of love, loss, valor, and passion.Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Jean Valjean—the noble peasant imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread—Les Misérables ranks...

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House Rules: A Memoir (P.S.)

by Rachel Sontag

Published: 2009-03-24

Paperback: 288 pages

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A memoir of a father obsessed with control and the daughter who fights his suffocating grasp, House Rules explores the complexities of their compelling and destructive relationship as Rachel fights to escape, and, later, to make sense of what remains of her family.

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Good Talk, Dad: The Birds and the Bees...and Other Conversations We Forgot to Have

by Bill Geist, Willie Geist

Published: 2014-05-20

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Bill Geist--the beloved, award-winning, long-time special correspondent for "CBS: Sunday Morning," whose debut Little League Confidential was a New York Times bestseller in hardcover and paper--and Willie Geist, the Today Show host, popular member of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and author of th...

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Cape Cod

by William Martin

Published: 1992-07-01

Mass Market Paperback: 736 pages

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Originally brought to America's shores by the Mayflower, two families unearth their family skeletons--which have lain buried in Cape history for more than 200 years.

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And Sons: A Novel

by David Gilbert

Published: 2014-05-27

Paperback: 480 pages

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The New Yorker • Esquire • The Austin Chronicle • Kansas City Star • The Guardian (UK) • BookPage • Flavorwire • Bookish“[A] big, brilliant novel.”—The New York Times Book ReviewWho is A. N. Dyer? & Sons...

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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour: A Novel

by Joshua Ferris

Published: 2014-05-13

Hardcover: 337 pages

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris explores the absurdities of modern life and one man's search for meaning.Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know ho...

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Minding the Manor: The Memoir of a 1930s English Kitchen Maid

by Mollie Moran

Published: 2014-01-07

Paperback: 360 pages

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Born in 1916 in Norfolk, Mollie Moran is one of the few people still alive today who can recall working "downstairs" in the golden years of the early 1930's before the outbreak of WWII. She provides a rare and fascinating insight into a world that has long since vanished. Mollie left schoo...

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The Body in the Gallery (Faith Fairchild Mysteries)

by Katherine Hall Page

Published: 2009-10-13

Kindle Edition: 336 pages

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Faith's catering business has been slow with the downturn of the economy, so when her friend Patsy Avery proposes that she take over the café at Aleford's Ganley Art Museum, it seems like a not-to-be-missed opportunity. And Patsy has an ulterior motive—she discovers that the Romare Bear...

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Double Feature: A Novel

by Owen King

Published: 2014-06-03

Paperback: 448 pages

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SAM DOLAN is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth Dolan—a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pat...