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by Don DeLillo

Published: 2016-05-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time—an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life.Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixti...

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* * * * Interesting,
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LaRose: A Novel

by Louise Erdrich

Published: 2016-05-10

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionFinalist for the 2017 PEN Faulkner AwardIn this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breat...

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Modern Lovers

by Emma Straub

Published: 2016-05-31

Hardcover: 368 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of 2016An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016A Slate Best Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Fiction Pick   “Ms. Straub writes with such verve and sympathetic understanding of her characters. . .[An] entertaining novel. . . deftly a...

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Girl in the Blue Coat

by Monica Hesse

Published: 2016-04-05

Hardcover: 320 pages

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An unforgettable story of bravery, grief, and love in impossible times"Girl in the Blue Coat is a powerful, compelling coming-of-age story set against the dark and dangerous backdrop of World War II. It's an important and page-turning look at the choices all of us--including young adult...

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Hanging Mary: A Novel

by Susan Higginbotham

Published: 2016-03-15

Paperback: 400 pages

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"This is my favorite kind of historical fiction: evocative, deeply moving, and meticulously researched."?Jillian Cantor, author of Margot and The Hours Count Meet Mary Surratt, the woman who could have saved Lincoln. Find out what stopped her in this vivid reimagining of Lincoln's assassin...

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Dodgers: A Novel

by Bill Beverly

Published: 2016-04-05

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Dodgers is a dark, unforgettable coming-of-age journey that recalls the very best of Richard Price, Denis Johnson, and J.D. Salinger. It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys—including East's hothead younger brother...

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The Green House

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Published: 2005-02-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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Mario Vargas Llosa's classic early novel takes place in a Peruvian town, situated between desert and jungle, which is torn by boredom and lust. Don Anselmo, a stranger in a black coat, builds a brothel on the outskirts of the town while he charms its innocent people, setting in motion a ch...

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My Name is Grace

by Lorraine Hanover

Published: 2011-02-25

Paperback: 290 pages

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From innocent to outcast, wartime Glasgow to Canadas 1970s counterculture, Graces diary lives long after she is gone, and provides a roadmap to redemption for more than one troubled woman.

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Stolen Innocence (Detective Jake Hunter) (Volume 2)

by Joe B Parr

Published: 2014-03-20

Paperback: 276 pages

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Stolen Innocence is the second of the Jake Hunter series of mystery suspense novels. Finding the body of a beautiful young teenage girl launches Fort Worth Police Detective Jake Hunter and his partner, Billy Sanders, into an investigation that pulls them into a world of human trafficking where powerbrokers...

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Called to Be Amish: My Journey from Head Majorette to the Old Order (Plainspoken)

by Marlene C. Miller

Published: 2015-02-09

Paperback: 256 pages

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Fewer than one hundred people have joined the Old Order Amish and stayed since 1950. Marlene C. Miller is one of them. In this rare memoir, Marlene recounts her unhappy and abusive childhood, how she throws herself into cheerleading and marching band, and how she falls in love with Johnny,...