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Arctic Summer

by Damon Galgut

Published: 2014-09-02

Paperback: 352 pages

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Damon Galgut's third novel, a fictionalized biography of English author E.M. Forster, focuses on Forster's many years in India and the process of writing his masterpiece, A Passage to India. This compact, finely wrought novel also addresses Forster's unforgiving childhood in England and th...

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Summerville

by H. L. Sudler

Published: 2014-04-03

Paperback: 440 pages

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It's summertime in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and everything is beautiful. The town, the weather, the ocean, the people. For four months this seaside community becomes a playground for vacationers seeking to soak up all the fun the town has to offer. But this summer will be different, when devastating...

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A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories

by Glenway Wescott

Published: 2013-11-29

Kindle Edition: 208 pages

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Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, Maurice, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story "A Visit to Priapus" was also destined to be a posthumous work, buried from 1938 until this century in Wescott's massive archive of manuscripts, journals, notebook...

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Playdates with God: Having a Childlike Faith in a Grownup World

by Laura J. Boggess

Published: 2014-10-07

Paperback: 208 pages

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A simple invitation to play can open our eyes to joy and call us back to an intimate relationship with God.Do you remember when you first fell in love? When you fell in love with Jesus, was it much the same? Did you spend countless hours poring over Scripture? Did sleep suddenly seem munda...

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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

by Sam Harris

Published: 2014-09-09

Hardcover: 256 pages

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For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology.From multiple New York Times bestselling author, neuroscientist, and “new atheist” Sam Harris,...

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In the Beginning

by Chaim Potok

Published: 1975-09-12

Hardcover: 454 pages

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The story of a boy who grows up in the Bronx through the twenties, the Depression, World War II and its aftermath, and is forced by these events into radically reassessing what it means for him to be a Jew. The author also wrote "The Chosen".

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The Goddess of Small Victories

by Yannick Grannec

Published: 2014-10-14

Hardcover: 464 pages

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An internationally best-selling debut novel about the life, marriage, and legacy of one of the greatest mathematicians of the last century Princeton University 1980. Kurt Gödel, the most fascinating, though hermetic, mathematician of the twentieth century, has just died of anorexia. Hi...

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The Bishop's Wife

by Mette Ivie Harrison

Published: 2014-12-30

Hardcover: 345 pages

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Inspired by an actual crime. Linda is increasingly troubled by the church's patriarchal structure and secrecy, especially as a disturbing situation takes shape in the ward. One cold winter morning, a neighbor, Jared Helm, appears on the Wallheims' doorstep with his 5 year old daughter, claiming that...

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* * Pointless,
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Vanessa and Her Sister: A Novel

by Priya Parmar

Published: 2014-12-30

Hardcover: 368 pages

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What if Virginia Woolf’s sister had kept a diary? For fans of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank comes a spellbinding new story of the inseparable bond between Virginia and her sister, the gifted painter Vanessa Bell, and the real-life betrayal that threatened to destroy their family. Haile...

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* * * * * Beautiful,
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A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers

by Hazel Gaynor

Published: 2015-02-03

Kindle Edition: 432 pages

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The author of the USA Today and New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home has once again created an unforgettable historical novel. Step into the world of Victorian London, where the wealth and poverty exist side by side. This is the story of two long-lost sisters, whose...