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Attempting Elizabeth

by Jessica Grey

Published: 2013-02-21

Paperback: 320 pages

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Kelsey Edmundson is a geek and proud of it. She makes no secret of her love for TV, movies, and, most especially, books. After a bad breakup, she retreats into her favorite novel, Pride and Prejudice, wishing she had some of the wit and spirit of Elizabeth Bennett. One night at a party Kelsey meets handsome...

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Julio's Day

by Gilbert Hernandez

Published: 2013-04-20

Hardcover: 112 pages

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Gilbert Hernandez traces the life of a 100-year-old man from cradle to grave in this fictional graphic novel.It begins in the year 1900, with the scream of a newborn. It ends, 100 pages later, in the year 2000, with the death rattle of a 100-year-old man. The infant and the old man are bot...

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Farewell, My Lovely

by Raymond Chandler

Published: 1992-08

Paperback: 292 pages

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Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's second novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times). Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder...

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The Friends of Eddie Coyle: A Novel

by George V. Higgins

Published: 2010-04-27

Paperback: 192 pages

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The classic novel from "America's best crime novelist" (Time), with a new introduction by Dennis LehaneGeorge V. Higgins's seminal crime novel is a down-and-dirty tale of thieves, mobsters, and cops on the mean streets of Boston. When small-time gunrunner Eddie Coyle is convicted on a fel...

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Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

by Ben Macintyre

Published: 2013-05-14

Paperback: 399 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS      On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. A stunning military accomplishment, it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude,...

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Twice Born: A Novel

by Margaret Mazzantini

Published: 2011-05-12

Hardcover: 464 pages

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This international bestseller is a sweeping portrait of motherhood, loss, and redemption in war-torn Sarajevo. Filled with memories of the four-year siege of Sarajevo, Gemma reluctantly boards a flight from her native Rome to that war-scarred city with her sixteen-year-old son, Pietro. Sh...

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Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic

by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Published: 2013-05-07

Hardcover: 336 pages

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When writer-producers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns dreamed up an edgy show about a divorced woman with a career, the CBS executives they pitched replied: “American audiences won’t tolerate divorce in a series’ lead any more than they will tolerate Jews, people with mustaches, and ...

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The Drunken Botanist

by Amy Stewart

Published: 2013-03-19

Hardcover: 400 pages

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A New York Times BestsellerSake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley, tequila from agave, rum from sugarcane, bourbon from corn. Thirsty yet?  In The Drunken Botanist, Amy Stewart explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits, and fungi that humans have, t...

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Kind One

by Laird Hunt

Published: 2012-09-25

Paperback: 192 pages

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Finalist for 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award"There is always a surprise in the voice and in the heart of Laird Hunt's stories, with its echoes of habit caught in a timeless dialect, so we see the world he gives us as if new. 'You hear something like that and it walks out the door with you.'"—Mic...

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The Bookman's Tale: A Novel of Obsession

by Charlie Lovett

Published: 2013-05-28

Hardcover: 353 pages

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A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller’s search through time and the works of Shakespeare for his lost love Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books, The Bookman’s Tale is a former bookseller’s sparkling novel and a delightful exploration ...