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In Cold Blood (Vintage International)

by Truman Capote

Published: 2001-10-09

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National Bestseller On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman C...

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Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)

by Anais Nin

Published: 1990-10-29

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This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. “Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything I’ve ever read....I found it a very erotic book and profoundly liberating” (Ali...

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Woman with a Blue Pencil: A Novel

by Gordon McAlpine

Published: 2015-11-10

Paperback: 185 pages

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“Woman with a Blue Pencil is a brilliantly structured labyrinth of a novel—something of an enigma wrapped in a mystery, postmodernist in its experimental bravado and yet satisfyingly well-grounded in the Los Angeles of its World War II era. Gordon McAlpine has imagined a totally uniqu...

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The Girl With No Past: A gripping psychological thriller

by Kathryn Croft

Published: 2015-10-15

Paperback: 300 pages

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Twenty years running from your past. Today it catches up. A gripping psychological thriller for fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. Leah Mills lives a life of a fugitive – kept on the run by one terrible day from her past. It is a lonely life, without a social life or friends ...

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Those Secrets We Keep

by Emily Liebert

Published: 2015-06-02

Paperback: 336 pages

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From the author of You Knew Me When and When We FallThree women. Three lives. Three secrets.On the surface, Sloane has the perfect life—an adoring husband, a precocious daughter, and enough financial security to be a stay-at-home mom. Still, she can’t help but feel as though somethi...

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Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race

by Debby Irving

Published: 2014-01-16

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Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As Irving unpacks her own long-held beliefs about colorblindness,...

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Old Heart: A Novel

by Peter Ferry

Published: 2015-06-09

Paperback: 256 pages

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Tom Johnson has turned 85 and has suffered a few ?events,” though he knows his mind is sharp. His oldest son, who had Down Syndrome has died, and his remaining two children want to move him out of the homestead lake house and into a retirement home in town. What Tom wants to do is to fin...

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A House Unlocked

by Penelope Lively

Published: 2003-04

Paperback: 240 pages

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In A House Unlocked, Whitbread Award- and Booker Prize-winning Penelope Lively takes us on a journey of her familial country house in England that her grandparents bought in 1923. As her narrative shifts from room to room, object to object, she paints a moving portrait of an era of rapid c...

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Family Album: A Novel

by Penelope Lively

Published: 2010-08-31

Paperback: 240 pages

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"[In this] haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." -The New York Times Book Review Penelope Lively is renowned for her signature combination of silken storytelling and nuanced human insights. In Family Album, lively masterful...

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This Should Be Written in the Present Tense

by Helle Helle

Published: 2016-01-12

Paperback: 208 pages

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Dorte is twenty and adrift, pretending to study literature at Copenhagen University. In reality she is riding the trains and clocking up random encounters in her new home by the railway tracks. She remembers her ex, Per – the first boyfriend she tells us about, and the first she leaves �...