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A Partial History of Lost Causes: A Novel

by Jennifer DuBois

Published: 2012-08-21

Paperback: 380 pages

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FINALIST FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION  In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds. With uncommon perception and wit, duBois ex...

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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival

by Bernd Heinrich

Published: 2009-04-07

Paperback: 400 pages

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From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, animals ...

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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

by Charles Seife

Published: 2000-09-01

Paperback: 248 pages

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The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations of modern physics. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathemat...

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The Boys from Brazil: A Novel (Pegasus Classics)

by Ira Levin

Published: 2010-11-15

Kindle Edition: 288 pages

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The classic thriller of Dr. Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich.Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project—the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigati...

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On Tall Pine Lake

by Dorothy Garlock

Published: 2007-01-05

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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Nona Conrad has been making it through "by the hardest." Each day is a struggle - to go on after her parents' sudden death, to win her rightful inheritance from her untrustworthy half-brother, and to raise her high-spirited younger sister. Hired to manage a fishing camp deep in the Arkansas woods, the...

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Perdita

by Hilary Scharper

Published: 2013

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The Midwife's Tale

by Gretchen Moran Laskas

Published: 2004-03-02

Paperback: 258 pages

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“I come from a long line of midwives,” narrates Elizabeth Whitely. “I was expected to follow Mama, follow Granny, follow Great-granny. In the end, I didn’t disappoint them. Or perhaps I did. After all, there were no more midwives after me.”For generations, the women in Elizabeth�...

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A Star for Mrs. Blake: A novel

by April Smith

Published: 2014-01-14

Hardcover: 329 pages

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The United States Congress in 1929 passed legislation to fund travel for mothers of the fallen soldiers of World War I to visit their sons’ graves in France. Over the next three years, 6,693 Gold Star Mothers made the trip. In this emotionally charged, brilliantly realized novel, April S...

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Self-Help

by Lorrie Moore

Published: 2007-03-13

Paperback: 176 pages

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In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for,...

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Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton: A Novel

by Philip Kerr

Published: 2003-10-28

Paperback: 352 pages

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In 1696, Christopher Ellis, a young, hot-tempered gentleman, is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. A sudden twist of fate has led him there to assist the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton, who as Warden of the Royal Mint has accepted an appointment to hunt down counterfe...