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The Woman Upstairs (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Claire Messud

Published: 2014-02-04

Paperback: 320 pages

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Told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, this New York Times bestselling novel is the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and abandoned by a desire for a world beyond her own.Nora Eldridge is a reliable, but unremarkable, friend and neighbor, always on the fri...

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Little Failure: A Memoir

by Gary Shteyngart

Published: 2014-01-07

Hardcover: 368 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAfter three acclaimed novels, Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a candid, witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far. Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insi...

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Gun Machine

by Warren Ellis

Published: 2014-01-14

Paperback: 320 pages

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The bestselling thriller from "a seriously good writer with a seriously wicked imagination" (New York Times Book Review). After a shootout claims the life of his partner in a condemned tenement building on Pearl Street, Detective John Tallow unwittingly stumbles across an apartment stack...

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Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

by Kate Bornstein

Published: 1995-04-25

Paperback: 272 pages

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Part coming-of-age story, part mind-altering manifesto on gender and sexuality, coming directly to you from the life experiences of a transsexual woman, Gender Outlaw breaks all the rules and leaves the reader forever changed.26 black-and-white illustrations.

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Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Novels)

by Ian Rankin

Published: 2008-09-16

Paperback: 272 pages

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Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britain's elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories, misses promotions and ignores a series of cran...

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Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes (Rose Gardner Mystery #1)

by Denise Grover Swank

Published: 2013-12-19

Kindle Edition: 374 pages

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The first book of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series! "Though much of the book is light-hearted and occasionally outright hilarious, the author sneaks in a few home truths along the way that will hit you where it counts, like how even someone’s best intentions can box y...

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Aunt Dimity's Good Deed (An Aunt Dimity Mystery)

by Nancy Atherton

Published: 1998-03-01

Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages

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Nancy Atherton's growing number of fans will certainly be delighted by Aunt Dimity's latest appearance in the honey-colored English cottage she bequeathed to her "niece," Lori Shepherd. Thanks to Aunt Dimity, Lori's life has taken on fairy-tale proportions: she's financially set for life...

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The Day Before 9/11

by Tucker Elliot

Published: 2013-03-26

Kindle Edition: 139 pages

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In Korea, a soldier's daughter is jetlagged and lost in her new school. In Germany, a military family welcomes the birth of a second child. In the aftermath of 9/11, both families - dads, moms, and kids - will fight the war on terror. A harrowing true story that spans America's first decad...

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Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure: A Tara Holloway Novel

by Diane Kelly

Published: 2011-11-01

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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Tara Holloway has got your number. A special agent on the IRS’s payroll, she’s dead-set on making sure that money crimes don’t pay…Tax cheats, beware: The Treasury Department’s Criminal Investigations Division has a new special agent on its payroll. A recovering tomboy with a hea...

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Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

Published: 2012-12-11

Paperback: 432 pages

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Waugh tells the story of the Marchmain family. Aristocratic, beautiful and charming, the Marchmains are indeed a symbol of England and her decline in this novel of the upper class of the 1920s and the abdication of responsibility in the 1930s.