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Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home

by Sheri Booker

Published: 2013-05-30

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Six Feet Under meets The Wire in a dazzling and darkly comic memoir about coming-of-age in a black funeral home in Baltimore Sheri Booker was only fifteen years old when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea that her summer job would become nine year...

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The Orphanmaster: A Novel of Early Manhattan

by Jean Zimmerman

Published: 2013-04-30

Paperback: 432 pages

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A love story wrapped around a murder mystery, set in seventeenth-century Manhattan In 1663 in the hardscrabble colony of New Amsterdam—today’s lower Manhattan—orphan children are going missing and residents suspect a serial killer. The list of possible culprits is long and strange. ...

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The Paperboy (Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel

by Pete Dexter

Published: 2012-09-25

Paperback: 336 pages

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Now a major motion picture directed by Lee Daniels starring Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, David Oyelowo, and Macy Gray, with John Cusack and Nicole Kidman   NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   “An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book h...

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The Watchers: The Angelus Trilogy

by Jon Steele

Published: 2013-04-02

Paperback: 784 pages

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Every hour, childlike Marc Rochat circles the Lausanne cathedral as the watchmen have done for centuries. Then one day a beautiful woman draws him out of the shadows—the angel his mother once promised him would come. But Katherine Taylor is no angel. She’s one of the toughest and most...

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The Red House (Vintage)

by Mark Haddon

Published: 2013-03-12

Paperback: 272 pages

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A Washington Post Best Book of the YearFrom Mark Haddon, the bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, comes a dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family life. Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister and her family to join his family for...

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Perla (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Carolina De Robertis

Published: 2013-02-12

Paperback: 256 pages

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From the author of the international bestseller, The Invisible Mountain, comes Perla, a coming-of-age story based on one of the darkest chapters in Argentinean history. Growing up as a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, Perla Correa learned early on not to discuss the profession of he...

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The Double (Spero Lucas)

by George Pelecanos

Published: 2013-10-08

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Every man has his dark side...Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from one of America's best-loved crime writers.The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting--"The Double"--Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend stole from her. It's the sort of thing Spero...

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The Double

by José Saramago

Published: 2005-10-03

Paperback: 336 pages

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The inspiration for the major motion picture "Enemy" starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Denis Villeneuve   Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed....

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Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister: A Novel

by Gregory Maguire

Published: 2010-09-28

Paperback: 384 pages

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“[An] engrossing story...endearing and memorable.”—Boston Herald“[An] arresting hybrid of mystery, fairy tale, and historical novel.”—Detroit Free Press“A tale so movingly told that you will say at the end of the first reading, ‘It’s been a long time since I’ve read a b...

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Letters from Skye: A Novel

by Jessica Brockmole

Published: 2013-07-09

Hardcover: 304 pages

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYA sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole’s atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and celebrates the power of the written word to stir...