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The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel

by Adam Johnson

Published: 2012-01-10

Hardcover: 464 pages

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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • LONGLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The Wall Street Journal • Los Angeles Times �...

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The Orphan Sister

by Gwendolen Gross

Published: 2011-07-05

Kindle Edition: 306 pages

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Clementine Lord is not an orphan. She just feels like one sometimes. One of triplets, a quirk of nature left her the odd one out. Odette and Olivia are identical; Clementine is a singleton. Biologically speaking, she came from her own egg. Practically speaking, she never quite left it. The...

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The Orphanmaster

by Jean Zimmerman

Published: 2012-06-19

Hardcover: 432 pages

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From a debut novelist, a gripping historical thriller and rousing love story set in seventeenth-century ManhattanIt's 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and among those looking into the myster...

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Orthodoxy

by G. K. Chesterton

Published: 2013-08-09

Paperback: 164 pages

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Centennial edition of "Orthodoxy" by G. K. Chesterton.

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Oryx and Crake

by Margaret Eleanor Atwood

Published: 2003

Hardcover: 383 pages

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A poignant and beautiful debut novel explores a man's quest to unravel the mystery of his wife's death with the help of the only witness--their Rhodesian ridgeback, Lorelei.

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Oscar and Lucinda

by Peter Carey

Published: 1989

Paperback: 1 pages

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Oscar and Lucinda. Peter Carey

by Peter Carey

Published: 2011-02

Paperback: 544 pages

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Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed ...Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey's Booker ...

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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance: A Mystery (Oscar Wilde Mysteries)

by Gyles Brandreth

Published: 2008-01-08

Paperback: 347 pages

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One of Britain's premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever and stylish historical murder mysteriesLovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. Best of all, it casts British literature...

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Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

Published: 2011-02-26

Paperback: 90 pages

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The Importance of Being Earnest is both Oscar Wilde's most important and funniest play. As the subtitle suggests there is more to this play than its farcical nature suggests. Wilde calls into question the nature of identity while poking fun at proper British manners and the aristocracy. Even after one...

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Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Oscar Wilde

Published: 1998-01-27

Paperback: 64 pages

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Epigrams, aphorisms, and other bon mots gathered from the celebrated wit's plays, essays, and conversation offer an entertaining selection of observations both comic and profound. Organized by category, the nearly 400 quotes range in subject from human nature, morals, and society to art, p...