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The Noise of Time: A novel

by Julian Barnes

Published: 2016-05-10

Hardcover: 224 pages

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A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes’s first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending. In 1936, Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure...

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The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter)

by Thomas Harris

Published: 1991-02-15

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As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknames "Buffalo Bill," FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him.That man, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unus...

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The Child Bride

by Cathy Glass

Published: 2014-09-25

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Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family.When 14 -year-old Zeena begs to be taken into care with a non-Asian family, she is clearly petrified. But of what?Placed in the home of experienced foste...

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Lonely Vigil: Coastwatchers of the Solomons

by Walter Lord

Published: 1977-08-03

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Called a stirring tale of forgotten heroes splendidly told by a master narrator, this saga of the valiant coastwatchers of the Pacific War exemplifies that rare combination of careful research and exciting narrative style that became a hallmark of Walter Lord's best-selling books. Though t...

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The Last Jews in Berlin

by Leonard Gross

Published: 1982-03

Hardcover: 349 pages

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In February 1943, four thousand Jews went underground in Berlin. By the end of the war, all but a few hundred of them had died in bombing raids or, more commonly, in death camps. This is the real-life story of some of the few of them - a young mother, a scholar and his countess lover, a bl...

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The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West

by Dee Brown

Published: 1981-09-01

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All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola Montez, Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Mee...

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A Place Far Away

by Vahan Zanoyan

Published: 2013-02-16

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Lara Galian is a hauntingly beautiful sixteen-year-old from a poor village in Armenia. In a newly independent country, corrupt oligarchs have unprecedented power and considerable leeway to act above the law. When the ruthless Sergei Ayvazian approaches Lara’s father with an offer to manage her through...

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The Bricks that Built the Houses

by Kate Tempest

Published: 2016-05-03

Hardcover: 416 pages

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Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving London in a fourth-hand Ford with a suitcase full of stolen money, in a mess of tangled loyalties and impulses. But can they truly leave the city that's in their bones?Kate Tempest's novel reaches back through time--through tensely quiet dining rooms and ...

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Fast Copy (Texas Tradition Series)

by Dan Jenkins

Published: 2001-04-01

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In 1935 Betsy Throckmorton’s father lures her from a New York job with Time magazine back to Claybelle, Texas, with the promise that she can be the editor of his Claybelle Standard-Times. Betsy brings along her husband, Ted Winton, an easterner and Yale graduate to whom she is constantly...

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The Alliance

by Jolina Petersheim

Published: 2016-06-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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Booklist's Top 10 Inspirational Fiction2016 Grace Award Winner for Speculative Fiction2017 Christy Award Finalist: Visionary CategoryInc. Magazine's 10 Phenomenal Books for Fall ReadingStraight off the Page's Best of 20162017 Inspy Award Finalist"[An] astute meditation on the intersection ...