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The Antagonist (Vintage)

by Lynn Coady

Published: 2013-10-08

Paperback: 304 pages

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A piercing epistolary novel, The Antagonist explores, with wit and compassion, how the impressions of others shape, pervert, and flummox both our perceptions of ourselves and our very nature. Gordon Rankin Jr., aka “Rank,” thinks of himself as “King Midas in reverse”—and indeed ...

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9 Wrong Wrong

by Candace James

Published: 2013-06-11

Paperback: 176 pages

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One cool October day Candace James received the visit no parent should have to face: two police officers knocked on her door to tell her that her twenty-four-year-old daughter, Laura, had died in a car accident on the outskirts of a ghost town in rural Nevada. Overcome with grief and struggling to cope,...

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By Myself and Then Some

by Lauren Bacall

Published: 2005-03-01

Hardcover: 512 pages

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The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to astound generations with her audacious spirit and on-screen excellence. Together with Humphrey Bogart she produced some of the most electric scenes in movie history, and their romance on and off screen made them Hollyw...

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The Blackhouse: The Lewis Trilogy

by Peter May

Published: 2014-08-05

Paperback: 501 pages

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From acclaimed author and dramatist Peter May comes the Barry award-winning The Blackhouse, the first book in the Lewis Trilogy--a riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis that bears similarities to a br...

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Takedown Twenty (Stephanie Plum)

by Janet Evanovich

Published: 2014-06-17

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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Life, In Spite of Me: Extraordinary Hope After a Fatal Choice

by Kristen Jane Anderson

Published: 2011-05-17

Paperback: 224 pages

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She wanted to die. God had other plans.Overwhelmed by wave after wave of emotional trauma, Kristen Anderson no longer wanted to live. One January night, determined to end her pain once and for all, the seventeen-year-old lay across train tracks not far from her home and waited to die.  In...

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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, 2nd Edition

by Natalie Goldberg

Published: 2005-12-06

Paperback: 224 pages

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For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen p...

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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

by Ben Macintyre

Published: 2014-07-29

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story.Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height...

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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War

by Helen Thorpe

Published: 2014-08-05

Hardcover: 416 pages

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From an award-winning, “meticulously observant” (The New Yorker), and “masterful” (Booklist) writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal lives, and their families.Ame...

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A to Z Mysteries Super Edition #6: The Castle Crime (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))

by Ron Roy

Published: 2014-01-28

Paperback: 144 pages

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In the sixth A to Z Mysteries Super Edition, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose go to London! The kids see Big Ben, ride the London Eye, and tour Madame Tussauds wax museum. Then big news hits—someone has stolen Queen Elizabeth's jewels right outside Windsor Castle! The kids head to the castle to...