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Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith: A Novel

by gina nahai

Published: 2015-01-22

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The first voice we hear in Gina B. Nahai's second novel is that of Lili, the grown daughter of a miraculous mother. When Lili was 5 and living in the Jewish ghetto of Tehran, her mother, Roxanna, "had grown wings, one night when the darkness was the color of her dreams, and flown into the ...

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Split: A Counterculture Childhood

by Lisa Michaels

Published: 1999-04-05

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In Split, Lisa Michaels offers a strikingly textured portrait of her days of communes and road trips, of antiwar protests and rallies --- and of what came after, for her parents and herself --- as the radicalism of the 1960s and '70s gave way to conservative times. As a young child, Michae...

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This Is Not a Love Story: A Memoir

by Judy Brown

Published: 2015-07-28

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A razor-sharp, hilarious, and poignant memoir about growing up in the closed world of the ultraorthodox Jewish community.The third of six children in a family that harks back to a gloried Hassidic dynasty, Judy Brown grew up with the legacy of centuries of religious teaching, and the faith...

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The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

by Eric Weiner

Published: 2016-01-05

Hardcover: 368 pages

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“An intellectual odyssey, a traveler’s diary, and a comic novel all rolled into one. Smart, original, and utterly delightful.” —Daniel Gilbert, Harvard professor and bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness“A charming mix of history and wisdom cloaked as a rollicking travelo...

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Dead Man's Cell Phone (TCG Edition)

by Sarah Ruhl

Published: 2008-04-01

Paperback: 96 pages

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“Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is forever vital in her lyrical and biting takes on how we behave.”—The Washington Post“Ruhl’s zany probe of the razor-thin line between life and death delivers a fresh and humorous look a...

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Bellefleur

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 2013-06-25

Paperback: 752 pages

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A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group...

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Memoir: A History

by Ben Yagoda

Published: 2010-10-05

Paperback: 304 pages

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From Augustine's Confessions to Augusten Burroughs's Running with Scissors, from Julius Caesar to Ulysses S. Grant, from Mark Twain to David Sedaris, the art of memoir has had a fascinating life, and deserves its own biography. "As Yagoda says: 'Memoir has become the central form of the cu...

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Under the Sun

by Arthur Dorros

Published: 2004-10-01

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Chronicles the harrowing journey of Ehmet, a thirteen-year-old boy from Sarajevo who gets caught up in the ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.

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The Cornish Trilogy

by Robertson Davies

Published: 1992-02-01

Paperback: 1152 pages

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Woven around the pursuits of the energetic spirits and erudite scholars of the University of St. John and the Holy Ghost, this dazzling trilogy of novels lures the reader into a world of mysticism, historical allusion, and gothic fantasy that could only be the invention of Canada's grand man of letters....

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Saturn Run

by John Sandford, Ctein

Published: 2015-10-06

Hardcover: 496 pages

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“Fans of Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers will eat this up.” --Stephen KingFor fans of THE MARTIAN, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science f...