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Half a Life: A Memoir

by Darin Strauss

Published: 2011-05-31

Paperback: 224 pages

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In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school, he was behind the wheel of his dad's Oldsmobile, driving with friends, heading off to pla...

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Half a Life: A Novel

by V.S. Naipaul

Published: 2002-10-08

Paperback: 224 pages

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In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie...

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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

by Tom Robbins

Published: 1995-11-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you’re facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you’re going to have to scramble and scheme to cover your butt,...

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Half Broke Horses

by Jeannette Walls

Published: 2009-09-26

Kindle Edition: 292 pages

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Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa or Beryl Markham’s West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.“Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did.” So begins...

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Half Broke Horses: Behind the Story - The Undisclosed Story Behind the Curtains (A Background Information Book Companion)

by The Behind the Story Team, Sarah Reagan

Published: 2011-11-17

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You've devoured the last morsel of your savory book. Now what?If you still have a stomach that yearns for more, "Behind the Story" will be a most delightful surprise for you. Just like the name, "Behind the Story", this innovative guide takes you by the hand and becomes your personal guide...

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Half Broken Things

by Morag Joss

Published: 2006-07-25

Paperback: 336 pages

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A gripping tale of psychological suspense perfect for the readership of Minette Walters and Ruth Rendell, Half Broken Things is a novel that peers into the lives of three dangerously lost people…and the ominous haven they find when they find each other.Jean is a house sitter at the end o...

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Half Brother

by Kenneth Oppel

Published: 2010-09-01

Hardcover: 384 pages

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For thirteen years, Ben Tomlin was an only child. But all that changes when his mother brings home Zan -- an eight-day-old chimpanzee. Ben's father, a renowned behavioral scientist, has uprooted the family to pursue his latest research project: a high-profile experiment to determine wheth...

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Half in Love : Stories

by Maile Meloy

Published: 2003-06-17

Paperback: 174 pages

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Lean and controlled in their narration, abundant and moving in their effects, Maile Meloy's stories introduce a striking talent. Most are set in the modern American West, made vivid and unexpected in Meloy's unsentimental vision; others take us to Paris, wartime London, and Greece, with th...

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Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide

by Linda Gray Sexton

Published: 2011-01-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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After the agony of witnessing her mother's multiple—and ultimately successful—suicide attempts, Linda Gray Sexton, daughter of the acclaimed poet Anne Sexton, struggles with an engulfing undertow of depression. Here, with powerful, unsparing prose, Sexton conveys her urgent need to esc...

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The Half Life

by Jennifer Weiner

Published: 2011-02-01

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From Redbook's Red-Hot Read series, a short story by the New York Times #1 best-selling author of In Her Shoes and Fly Away Home "My life is over," Piper DeWitt thinks to herself, awaiting departure in the overcrowded International Terminal of the Philadelphia airport for an overseas busin...