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Funeral in Montauk

by Jim Cooper

Published: 2014-05-17

Kindle Edition: 294 pages

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A small group of New Yorkers huddle, bracing themselves against the wet cold of an off-season Montauk beach. They wait to scatter the ashes of a young successful photographer. Ben Johnson had not always been handsome, sophisticated or even a photographer…then overnight, he was double...

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Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave

by Adam Alter

Published: 2014-02-25

Paperback: 272 pages

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A revelatory look at how our environment unconsciously yet dramatically shapes the judgments and decisions we make every dayMost of us go through life believing that we are in control of the choices we make—that we think and behave almost independently from the world around us. But as Dr...

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* * * Interesting,
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Red Sky in Morning: A Novel

by Paul Lynch

Published: 2013-11-05

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A tense, thrilling debut novel that spans two continents, from "a writer to watch out for" (Colum McCann).It's 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. The dead man's father is an expert tracker and ruthless killer with a single-minded focus on vengeance. The hunt leads from the winds...

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Beneath the Universe

by David Reamer

Published: 2013-12-24

Paperback: 450 pages

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A surreal, dark and funny novel about River, a paper sculptor from Hawaii. Living in a snowstruck farmhouse in Japan with his young son, River is assaulted by an ancient robot in the same 24 hours he discovers a disturbing message written in the snow by a crow near his sculpture studio. Feeling that...

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* * * * * Interesting,
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The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice

by Rebecca Musser

Published: 2014-06-17

Paperback: 352 pages

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Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' school headed ...

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Under Cover of Daylight

by James W. Hall

Published: 2001-03-17

Paperback: 288 pages

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"This book is a beauty. . . . The plot, the action, the marvelous sense of place, are enough to keep anyone reading."—Elmore Leonard James W. Hall’s haunting debut novel first introduced the rugged character Thorn and the breathtaking South Florida landscape where he lives. Thorn’s p...

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Perfectly Planned

by Kelly R Porter

Published: 2012-03-04

Paperback: 174 pages

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A survivor of 20 years of abuse and battles that would destroy most. From incest, to sexual molestation, physical and verbal abuse, rape and abandonment. I am a woman who knows my past and understands that my experiences are purely lessons meant to bring me closer to self-knowledge and unconditional...

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Seeking Persephone

by Sarah M. Eden

Published: 2011-09-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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When Persephone Lancaster receives a marriage proposal from the ill-tempered Duke of Kielder, she refuses, and then reconsiders. The obscene sum of money he's offering Persephone would save her family from ruin. With her characteristic optimism, she travels to the far reaches of Northumberland to wed...

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Learning to Walk in the Dark

by Barbara Brown Taylor

Published: 2014-04-08

Hardcover: 208 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don’t have all the answers.Taylor has become increasingly uncomfortable with our tendency to associate all...

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The Other Language

by Francesca Marciano

Published: 2014-04-08

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Hailed by The New York Times as “a natural-born storyteller,” the acclaimed author of Rules of the Wild gives us nine incandescently smart stories, funny, elegant, and poignant by turns, that explore the power of change—in relationships, in geographies, and across cultures—to revea...