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Voices in the Night: Stories

by Steven Millhauser

Published: 2015-04-14

Hardcover: 304 pages

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From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories—provocative, funny, disturbing, enchanting—that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Beloved for the lens o...

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The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives

by Theresa Brown

Published: 2015-09-22

Hardcover: 272 pages

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In a book as eye-opening as it is riveting, practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a hospital’s cancer ward. In the span of twelve hours, lives can be lost...

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All Fudged Up (A Candy-coated Mystery)

by Nancy Coco

Published: 2013-11-05

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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Welcome to the Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop--where life is sweet, revenge is sweeter, and murder is here to to stay. . .You Can't Fudge An AlibiAllie McMurphy is up to her neck in renovations at the grand old hotel that's been in her family for generations. With its quaint Vict...

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The Kashmiri Shawl: A Novel

by Joanne Dobson

Published: 2014-05-23

Paperback: 370 pages

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An epic journey from the sultry climes of nineteenth-century India to the cosmopolitan chaos of New York City on the eve of civil in search of a kidnapped daughter and a lost, forbidden love. India, 1857: Anna Wheeler Roundtree, missionary wife, flees her husband's pious tyranny. Her timing is bad:...

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Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir (Sun Tracks)

by Ernestine Hayes

Published: 2006-09-21

Paperback: 172 pages

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In the spring, the bear returns to the forest, the glacier returns to its source, and the salmon returns to the fresh water where it was spawned. Drawing on the special relationship that the Native people of southeastern Alaska have always had with nature, Blonde Indian is a story about re...

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Everything I Don't Remember

by Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Published: 2016-06-02

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Dazzling, inventive, witty: a writer pieces together the story of a young man's death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial A young man called Samuel dies, but was it an accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's...

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Underwater: A Novel

by Marisa Reichardt

Published: 2016-01-12

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Morgan didn't mean to do anything wrong that day. Actually, she meant to do something right. But her kind act inadvertently played a role in a deadly tragedy. In order to move on, Morgan must learn to forgive-first someone who did something that might be unforgivable, and then, herself. Bu...

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Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now

by Jan Wong

Published: 1997-05-19

Paperback: 416 pages

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Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Ma...

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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned

by Alan Alda

Published: 2006-09-12

Paperback: 272 pages

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He’s one of America’s most recognizable and acclaimed actors–a star on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing, during his eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as elegant, funny, and a...

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The Heartless Stone: A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire

by Tom Zoellner

Published: 2006-05-30

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In 2000, Tom Zoellner purchased a diamond engagement ring and proposed. His girlfriend said, "yes" and then, suddenly, walked out of his life making Tom the owner of a used engagement ring.  Instead of hitting the self-help shelves of his local bookstore, he hit the road travelling ...