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The Deptford Trilogy

by Robertson Davies

Published: 1990-10-01

Paperback: 825 pages

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Fifth Business Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins t...

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Cheri and the Last of Cheri

by Colette

Published: 2001-10-10

Paperback: 320 pages

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Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.Chéri, together with The Last of Chéri, is a classic story of a love affair between a very young man and a charming older woman. The amour between Fred Peloux, the beautiful gigolo known as Chéri, and...

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel

by Michael Chabon

Published: 2012-06-12

Paperback: 704 pages

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE   The beloved, award-winning The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, a Michael Chabon masterwork, is the American epic of two boy geniuses named Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay. Now with special bonus material by Michael Chabon.   A “towering, swash-buckling...

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Song of the Lark

by Willa Cather

Published: 2009-03-26

Paperback: 328 pages

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The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young girl, Thea, who leaves home to go to the big city to fulfill her dream of becoming a famous opera star. Along the way, her realization of the mediocrity of her peers propels her to greater...

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The Indian Lover: A Novel

by Garth Murphy

Published: 2002-11-26

Hardcover: 448 pages

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With a sweeping sense of history and landscape that contributed to making Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove" a classic, and the precise sense of character and passion that made "Cold Mountain" so successful, Garth Murphy has written a brilliant saga about California in its last days as part ...

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Disquiet

by Julia Leigh

Published: 2009

Paperback: 0 pages

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The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

by Amanda Ripley

Published: 2013-08-13

Hardcover: 320 pages

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How Do Other Countries Create “Smarter” Kids?In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they’ve never seen before. They are learning to think, in other words, and to thrive in the modern economy. What is it like to be a...

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Otherwise Engaged: A Novel

by Suzanne Finnamore

Published: 2000-05-09

Paperback: 224 pages

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Otherwise Engaged is Suzanne Finnamore's wickedly funny account of an intelligent, rational woman's transformation into the harpy of anxieties that is the bride-to-be. When Michael pops the question, Eve is deliriously happy. She tells grocery clerks. She subscribes to bridal magazines. Sh...

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Follow the Stars Home: A Novel

by Luanne Rice

Published: 2011-01-25

Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages

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Acclaimed novelist Luanne Rice "touches the deepest, most tender corners of the heart" (Tami Hoag, author of A Thin Dark Line). Her stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be—and that we must risk our hearts every day to know happiness. Follow the Stars Home is just such a no...

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Lunch at the Piccadilly (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Clyde Edgerton

Published: 2004-09-21

Paperback: 264 pages

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Welcome to the Rosehaven Convalescence Center in beautiful Listre, North Carolina. Recuperating after a recent fall, Lil Olive sits on the front porch, chitchatting with and rocking right alongside the regulars. There’s tiny Maudie Lowe with her cane that seems too tall; Beatrice Satterwhite, whose...