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The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors: A Novel

by Michele Young-Stone

Published: 2011-04-05

Paperback: 384 pages

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When lightning strikes, lives are changed. BECCA On a sunny day in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, eight-year-old Becca Burke was struck by lightning. No one believed her—not her philandering father or her drunk, love-sick mother—not even when her watch kept losing time and a spooky hal...

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A Handbook to Luck (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Cristina Garcia

Published: 2008-04-08

Paperback: 272 pages

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In the late 60s, three teenagers from around the globe are making their way in the world: Enrique Florit, from Cuba, living in southern California with his flamboyant magician father; Marta Claros, getting by in the slums of San Salvador; Leila Rezvani, a well-to-do surgeon's daughter in ...

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A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

by Evelyn Waugh

Published: 2002-04-09

Hardcover: 264 pages

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Evelyn Waugh’s 1934 novel is a bitingly funny vision of aristocratic decadence in England between the wars. It tells the story of Tony Last, who, to the irritation of his wife, is inordinately obsessed with his Victorian Gothic country house and life. When Lady Brenda Last embarks on...

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A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh

Published: 1999-09

Paperback: 320 pages

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Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have money, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously urbane, it depicts the breakup of a marriage in the London gentry, where the errant wife suffers from terminal boredom,...

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* * * Dramatic,
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Handle with Care: A Novel

by Jodi Picoult

Published: 2009-02-20

Kindle Edition: 512 pages

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Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break. Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the ch...

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Handling Sin

by Michael Malone

Published: 2001-08

Paperback: 640 pages

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On the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young ...

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The Handmaid and the Carpenter: A Novel

by Elizabeth Berg

Published: 2008-10-28

Paperback: 153 pages

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This wonderful novel transports us to Nazareth in biblical times, where we meet Mary and Joseph–and understand them as never before: young, in love, and suddenly faced with an unexpected pregnancy. Aided by a great and abiding love, they endure challenges to their relationship as well as...

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Handmaid's Tale (Vintage 21st Anniv Editions)

by Margaret Atwood

Published: 2011-08-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one option: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs....

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Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood (York Notes Advanced)

by Margaret Atwood

Published: 2003-08-29

Paperback: 136 pages

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The most supportive, easy-to-use and focussed literature guides to help your students understand the texts they are studying at GCSE and A Level

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Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

by Myron Uhlberg

Published: 2009-02-03

Hardcover: 256 pages

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By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it.“Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and...