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The Believers: A Novel

by Zoe Heller

Published: 2009-02-20

Kindle Edition: 368 pages

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“[Zoe Heller] is an extraordinarily entertaining writer, and this novel showcases her copious gifts, including a scathing, Waugh-like wit.”—New York Times Best-selling author Zoe Heller has followed up the critical and commercial success of What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal w...

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Believing God

by Beth Moore

Published: 2004-09-01

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Join best-selling author and Bible teacher Beth Moore in her latest book as she explores what it means to know and truly believe God, not just to believe IN Him. Through the examples of believers like Abraham and Moses, who trusted God's promises, Beth encourages Christians of all ages to deepen their...

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Believing The Lie

by Elizabeth George

Published: 2012-05-01

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Detective Inspector Lynley is approached by business magnate Bernard Fairclough for a confidential review of the circumstances of his nephew's demise. The coroner's verdict is accidental death. Still grieving for his murdered wife, Lynley has personal reasons for welcoming a spell away from London. He...

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The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

by Iris Murdoch

Published: 2001-12-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. And then things begin to change. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches...

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* * * * * Optimistic,
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A Bell for Adano

by John Hersey

Published: 1988-03-12

Paperback: 288 pages

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An Italian-American major in World War II wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700 year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists.

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The Bell Jar (P.S.)

by Sylvia Plath

Published: 2009-11-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under?maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably...

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* * * * Interesting,
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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

Published: 2013-06-11

Paperback: 288 pages

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A Special Paperback Edition to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of Sylvia Plath's Remarkable NovelSylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel about a woman falling into the grip of insanityEsther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously tal...

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The Bell

by Iris Murdoch

Published: 1987-01-06

Paperback: 320 pages

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First published in 1958, Iris Murdoch's funny and sad novel is about religion, the fight between good and evil and the terrible accidents of human frailty. Encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, is a community of very mixed-up people waiting for the installation of a new bell,...

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Bella Fortuna

by Rosanna Chiofalo

Published: 2012-08-28

Paperback: 368 pages

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In this warm, enchanting debut novel, Rosanna Chiofalo evokes the extraordinary beauty of Venice, the charm of a close-knit New York neighborhood, and the joys of friendship, family, and surprising second chances. . .Valentina DeLuca has made hundreds of brides' dreams come true. At Spos...

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Bella Tuscany

by Frances Mayes

Published: 1999-04-06

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Happiness? The color of it must be spring green, impossible to describe until I see a just-hatched lizard sunning on a stone. That color, the glowing green lizard skin, repeats in every new leaf. The regenerative power of nature explodes in every weed, stalk, branch. Working in the mild su...