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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

by Karen Joy Fowler

Published: 2013-05-30

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Named a Best of 2013 pick by: The New York Times Book Review, Slate, Newsday, Chicago Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, The Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, and BookPage "I thought this was a gripping, big-hearted book . . . through the tender voice of her protagonist, Fowle...

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The Flame and the Flower

by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Published: 2007-08-28

Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages

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The FlowerDoomed to a life of unending toil, Heather Simmons fears for her innocence—until a shocking, desperate act forces her to flee. . . and to seek refuge in the arms of a virile and dangerous stranger.The FlameA lusty adventurer married to the sea, Captain Brandon Birmingham courts...

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Breakfast with the Pope

by Susan Vigilante

Published: 2010-11-16

Hardcover: 208 pages

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A Christian Eat Pray Love Susan Vigilante, an average Catholic wife from Long Island, woke up one morning in the romantic Italian hillside near the ancient village of Castel Gandolfo and had breakfast with Pope John Paul II. How did she get here? Breakfast with the Pope is the funny, endearing, searing,...

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by Aubrey Coletti

Published: 2012-06-06

Paperback: 272 pages

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When Toni, Joseph and Charlie arrive at their new boarding school, they are glad to leave their families - and respective problems - behind. Isolated as boarders, they meet a handsome senior with a personality like iced snake's blood, teachers with a penchant for physical punishment, and four other outcasts...

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* * * * Dark,
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A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd

by Patrick Ness

Published: 2013-03-12

Paperback: 224 pages

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Patrick Ness’s #1 New York Times bestseller and Carnegie Medal–winning masterwork is poised to attract a discerning crossover audience.The monster in Conor’s backyard is not the one he’s been expecting — the one from the nightmare he’s had every night since his mother started h...

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* * * * * Inspiring,
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The Keeper of Secrets: A Novel

by Julie Thomas

Published: 2013-05-28

Paperback: 358 pages

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Beautiful and mysterious, The Keeper of Secrets by Julie Thomas follows a priceless violin across generations—from WWII to Stalinist Russia to the gilded international concert halls of today—and reveals the loss, love, and secrets of the families who owned it. In 1939 Berlin, 14-year-...

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Generations of Somerset Place: From Slavery to Freedom (Images of America)

by Dorothy Spruill Redford

Published: 2005-08-31

Paperback: 128 pages

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When the institution of slavery ended in 1865, Somerset Place was the third largest plantation in North Carolina. Located in the rural northeastern part of the state, Somerset was cumulatively home to more than 800 enslaved blacks and four generations of a planter family. During the 80 years that Somerset...

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Instructions for a Heatwave

by Maggie O'Farrell

Published: 2013-06-18

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels—After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of the Costa Novel Award; and her unforgettabl...

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Even Sunflowers Cast Shadows

by Douglas Armstrong

Published: 2010-10-25

Paperback: 316 pages

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WinnerAnne Powers Fiction-Book AwardBest Novel of 2010 by a Wisconsin WriterCouncil for Wisconsin Writers Emma Starkey is a spunky little girl trying hard to be charitable and virtuous. But her calculated attempts have a way of backfiring with tumultuous consequences in th...

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* * * Dark,
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The Silent Wife: A Novel

by A. S. A. Harrison

Published: 2013-06-25

Paperback: 326 pages

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Soon to be a major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl will love The Silent Wife"I gobbled it down in one sitting." – Anne Lamott, PeopleJodi and Todd are at a bad place in their marriage. Much is at stake, including the affluent life...