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The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square

by Rosina Lippi

Published: 2008-02-14

Hardcover: 368 pages

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From the author of Tied to the Tracks comes a charming new novel set in Lambert's Corner, South Carolina-a beautiful town where no one's secrets remain secret for very long. For John Dodge, moving to new places and reviving ailing businesses is a way of life. So when he sees an ad for Scriveners, a stationery...

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Palace Council

by Stephen L. Carter

Published: 2008-07-08

Hardcover: 528 pages

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“Carter twists plotlines like pretzels while wryly skewering America’s wealthy intellectual elite.” —PeopleJohn Grisham called Stephen L. Carter’s first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, “beautifully written and cleverly plotted. A rich, complex family saga, one deftly woven th...

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Palace of Desire (Cairo Trilogy II)

by Naguib Mahfouz

Published: 1991-12-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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The second volume of the highly acclaimed Cairo Trilogy from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, Palace Of Desire is the unforgettable story of the violent clash between ideals and realities, dreams and desires....

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The Palace of Illusions: A Novel

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Published: 2008-02-12

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat—told from the point of view of the wife of an amazing woman.Relevant to today’s war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the ...

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Palace Walk

by Naguib Mahfouz

Published: 2001

Paperback: 498 pages

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Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy)

by Naguib Mahfouz

Published: 1990-12-01

Paperback: 512 pages

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Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1

by Naguib Mahfouz

Published: 2011-11-29

Paperback: 544 pages

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Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Ja...

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Pale Demon (The Hollows, Book 9)

by Kim Harrison

Published: 2011-03-01

Hardcover: 448 pages

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Condemned and shunned for black magic, Rachel Morgan has three days to get to the annual witches? conference and clear her name, or be trapped in the demonic ever-after . . . forever after. But a witch, an elf, a living vampire, and a pixy in one car going across the country? Talk about ...

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Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Vladimir Nabokov

Published: 2000-08-31

Paperback: 256 pages

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 aft...

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The Pale King

by David Foster Wallace

Published: 2011-04-15

Hardcover: 560 pages

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The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinar...