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Belzhar

by Meg Wolitzer

Published: 2014-09-30

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Entertainment Weekly’s Best YA Book of 2014TIME magazine Top YA of 2014"Wolitzer has imagined a world for young readers that celebrates the sacred, transcendent power of reading and writing." —The New York Times Book ReviewThere’s a place where the lost go to be found.  If life ...

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A Wilder Rose

by Susan Wittig Albert

Published: 2013-09-01

Paperback: 302 pages

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In 1928, Rose Wilder Lane—world traveler, journalist, highly-paid magazine writer—returned from an Albanian sojourn to her parents’ Ozark farm. Almanzo Wilder was 71 and Laura 61, and Rose felt obligated to stay and help. Then came the Crash. Rose’s investments vanished and the magazine market...

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Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion (Vintage)

by Alain De Botton

Published: 2013-01-08

Paperback: 320 pages

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What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? Alain de Botton’s bold and provocative book argues that we can benefit from the wisdom and power of religion—without having to believe in any of it.He suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should inst...

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The Architecture of Happiness

by Alain De Botton

Published: 2008-04-08

Paperback: 288 pages

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The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the qualit...

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The Drowning Guard: A Novel of the Ottoman Empire

by Linda Lafferty

Published: 2013-09-03

Paperback: 414 pages

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2014 winner Colorado Book Award - Historical Fiction Each morning in the hour before dawn, a silent boat launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly into the deepest part of the waters halfway between Europe and Asia, where a man will die…The Drowning Guard is the tale of the Ottoman pri...

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A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

by Eimear McBride

Published: 2014-09-09

Hardcover: 227 pages

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Winner, Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2014Winner, Desmond Elliott Prize, 2014Winner, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, 2014Winner, Goldsmiths Prize, 2013Finalist for the Folio PrizeShortlisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeNPR's Best Books of 2014The New York Times Book Review 100 Nota...

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Hi Mom, Send Sheep: My Life as the Coyote and After

by Tim Derk

Published: 2006-09-18

Hardcover: 192 pages

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At the age of 47, Tim Derk’s career as mascot for the San Antonio Spurs was soaring as the team headed toward their second NBA Championship. That career ended abruptly when he suffered a massive stroke. Despite remarkable success in regaining speech and movement, Derk knew there was no g...

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The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island

by Mac Griswold

Published: 2014-04-01

Paperback: 480 pages

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In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon Sylvester Manor, a stately mansion guarded by hulking boxwoods. When Griswold went inside, she encountered a house full of revelations, including a letter from Thomas Jefferson and?most re...

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The Dreaming

by Barbara Wood

Published: 1992-08-21

Mass Market Paperback: 0 pages

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Recently orphaned, Joanna Drury, the granddaughter of Outback missionaries, travels to Australia to begin her life anew and to uncover the generations-old curse that has plagued her family. Reprint.

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The Retribution of Mara Dyer (The Mara Dyer Trilogy)

by Michelle Hodkin

Published: 2014-11-04

Hardcover: 480 pages

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It had to end sometime, but Mara had no idea it would end like this. Experience the mind-blowing conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Mara Dyer trilogy.Mara Dyer wants to believe there's more to the lies she’s been told.There is.She doesn’t stop to think about where her quest ...