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The Shell Seekers / Wild Mountains Thyme / the Day of the Storm

by ROSAMUNDE PILCHER

Published: 1994

Hardcover: 768 pages

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Fear of Flying: A Novel

by Erica Jong

Published: 2013-10-08

Hardcover: 384 pages

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The 40th anniversary reissue of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel Fear of Flying, with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Jennifer WeinerOriginally published in 1973 by Holt, Reinhardt and Winston, Fear of Flying, the internationally bestselling story of Isadora ...

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Odds Against Tomorrow: A Novel

by Nathaniel Rich

Published: 2013-04-02

Hardcover: 320 pages

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NEW YORK CITY, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of a cavernous office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is employee number two. He is asked to calculate worst-c...

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Stay Up With Me

by Tom Barbash

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 224 pages

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The stories in Tom Barbash's wondrous and evocative collection explore the myriad ways we try to connect with one another and with the sometimes cruel world around us. The newly single mother in "The Break" interferes in her son's love life over his Christmas vacation from college. The anx...

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Masterminds and Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World

by Rosalind Wiseman

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Here is a landmark book that reveals the way boys think and that shows parents, educators and coaches how to reach out and help boys overcome their most common yet difficult challenges -- by the bestselling author who changed our conception of adolescent girls. Do you constantly struggle ...

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The Hired Man

by Aminatta Forna

Published: 2013-10-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, The Hired Man is a taut, powerful novel of a small town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family of outsiders.Aminatta Forna has established herself as one of our most perceptive and unc...

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Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine

by Paul A., M.D. Offit

Published: 2013-06-18

Hardcover: 336 pages

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In Do You Believe in Magic?, medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly.Dr....

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Girls at War

by Chinua Achebe

Published: 1991-08-01

Paperback: 128 pages

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Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis.

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A Burnable Book: A Novel

by Bruce Holsinger

Published: 2014-02-18

Hardcover: 464 pages

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In Chaucer's London, betrayal, murder, royal intrigue, mystery, and dangerous politics swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England's kings.  Bruce Holsinger's A Burnable Book is an irresistible historical thriller reminiscent of the classics An Ins...

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The Lost King: Resistance

by Martin Lake

Published: 2013-11-21

Kindle Edition: 234 pages

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1066. King Harold and most of England's warriors lie dead on the battle-field. William of Normandy is marching on London with a victorious and exultant army. Fearful and desperate, the great council of the kingdom elects a new king to unite the country against the invader. Thei...