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Snow White Must Die

by Nele Neuhaus

Published: 2013-01-15

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus is a tremendous new contemporary mystery series and huge international bestseller—with more than 3.5 million copies in print!On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accid...

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The Suitors

by Cecile David-Weill

Published: 2013-02-26

Paperback: 432 pages

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A comedy of manners that serves as an insightful look at the lives of those in the upper classes. After two sisters, Laure and Marie, learn of their parents’ plan to sell the family’s summer retreat, L’Agapanthe, they devise a scheme for attracting a wealthy suitor who can afford to...

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Rapture: Poems

by Carol Ann Duffy

Published: 2013-03-12

Paperback: 80 pages

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Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize, “essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages” (The Guardian)The effortless virtuosity, drama, and humanity of Carol Ann Duffy’s verse have made her much admired among contemporary poets. Rapture is a book-length love poem and a moving act ...

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The Bees: Poems

by Carol Ann Duffy

Published: 2013-03-12

Hardcover: 96 pages

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A winner of the Costa Book Award, “beautiful and moving poetry for the real world” (The Guardian)The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy’s first collection of new poems as British poet laureate, and the much anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize–winning Rapture. After the intimate fo...

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The Greenlanders

by Jane Smiley

Published: 2005-09-13

Paperback: 608 pages

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This enthralling epic tale, written in the tradition of the old Norse sagas, takes us to fourteenth-century Greenland—a farflung place of glittering fjords, blasting winds, sun-warmed meadows, and high, dark mountains. This is the story of one family: proud landowner Asgeir Gunnarsson;...

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The Smart One

by Jennifer Close

Published: 2013-04-02

Hardcover: 352 pages

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With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses (An “irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel” —Marie Claire), Jennifer Close captured friendship in those what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life years of early adulthood. Now, with her sparkling new novel of parenthood and sibl...

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We Learn Nothing: Essays

by Tim Kreider

Published: 2013-04-09

Paperback: 256 pages

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In We Learn Nothing, satirical cartoonist Tim Kreider turns his funny, brutally honest eye to the dark truths of the human condition, asking big questions about human-sized problems: What if you survive a brush with death and it doesn’t change you? Why do we fall in love with people we d...

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The Towers of Trebizond: A Novel

by Rose Macaulay

Published: 2012-10-30

Paperback: 288 pages

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Hailed as "an utter delight, the most brilliant witty and charming book I have read since I can't remember when" by The New York Times when it was originally published in 1956, Rose Macaulay's The Towers of Trebizond tells the gleefully absurd story of Aunt Dot, Father Chantry-Pigg, Aunt D...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2013-03-14

Paperback: 624 pages

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Death in Venice and Other Stories (First Book)

by Thomas Mann

Published: 1988-10-01

Paperback: 263 pages

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This superb translation of Death in Venice and six other stories by Thomas Mann is a tour de force, deserving to be the definitive text for English-speaking readers. These seven stories represent Mann’s early writing career and a level of literary quality Mann himself despaired of ever a...