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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

by Jonathan Franzen

Published: 2007-08-21

Paperback: 208 pages

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year�The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen's �tale of growing up, squirming in his own �ber-sensitive skin, from a 'small and fundamentally ridiculous person,? into an adult with strong inconvenient passions.�Whether he's writing about the explosive d...

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Discovering Hope

by Chautona Havig

Published: 2012-09-23

Paperback: 286 pages

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What do Brigadoon, saris, epic laser tag games, and Jesus have in common? Hope. Hope Senior?all-American girl and student at Rockland University. Her family came over on the Fortune, less than a year after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth. Jay Brown?a charming blend of Indian heritage and American...

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Discovering the Qur'an: A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text, 2nd ed.

by Neal Robinson

Published: 2004-02-12

Paperback: 360 pages

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The latest edition of Discovering the Qur'an includes a new preface by the author. Used by students around the world as a reliable guide to reading a translation of the Qur'an, it shows how the Qur'an is experienced by Muslims, describing the rhythmic and rhyme scheme structures, the context in which...

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A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy)

by Deborah Harkness

Published: 2011-02-08

Kindle Edition: 594 pages

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"A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight." -People In a sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches became the "it" book of early 2011, bringing Deborah Harkness into the spotlight and galvanizing fans around the world. In this tale of passion...

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A Discovery of Witches

by Deborah E. Harkness

Published: 2011-02

Paperback: 608 pages

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An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of h...

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Discovery of Witches: The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Counti

by Thomas Potts

Published: 2006-12-11

Paperback: 270 pages

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Were not every chapter of the history of the human mind too precious an inheritance to be willingly relinquished ¿for appalling as its contents may be the value of the materials it may furnish may be inestimable ¿we might otherwise be tempted to wish that the miserable record in which the excesses...

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Discovery, The: A Novel

by Dan Walsh

Published: 2012-04-01

Kindle Edition: 352 pages

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Gerard Warner was not only a literary giant whose suspense novels sold in the millions, he was also a man devoted to his family, especially his wife of nearly 60 years. When he dies he leaves his Charleston estate to his grandson, Michael, an aspiring writer himself. Michael settles in to ...

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Disgrace

by J. M. Coetzee

Published: 2000-11-01

Paperback: 220 pages

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Set in post-apartheid Cape Town, Professor David Laurie attempts to relate to his daughter, Lucy, and to a society with new racial complexities. But that is disrupted by an afternoon of violence that changes him and his daughter in ways he could never have foreseen. Coetzee is the only writer awarded...

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Disillusioned: A Stan Turner Mystery (Stan Turner Mysteries)

by William Manchee

Published: 2010-07

Paperback: 362 pages

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Dismantled: A Novel

by Jennifer Mcmahon

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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When Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz form the Compassionate Dismantlers in college, the first rule of their manifesto is, "To understand the nature of a thing, it must be taken apart." But their penchant for acts of meaningful vandalism and elaborate, often dangerous pranks results in Suz's ...