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Prospect Street

by Emilie Richards

Published: 2003-06-01

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A woman who has lived by everyone else's rules must discover what she is made of when her life crumbles around her. When Faith Bronson's marriage ends abruptly, she finds her privileged life shattered. Only just beginning to face the lie she has lived, she finds sanctuary with her two c...

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The Prospector

by J. M. G. (Jean-Marie Gustave) Le Clezio

Published: 2008-11-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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The Prospector is the crowning achievement from one of France's preeminent contemporary novelists and a work rich with sensuality and haunting resonance. It is the turn of the century on the island of Mauritius, and young Alexis L'Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and beloved sister:...

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Prospero's Daughter: A Novel

by Elizabeth Nunez

Published: 2006-09-12

Paperback: 336 pages

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A spellbinding new novel from acclaimed author Elizabeth Nunez, Prospero's Daughter is a brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest set on a lush Caribbean island during the height of tensions between the native population and British colonists. Addressing questions of ra...

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Protect and Defend

by Richard North Patterson

Published: 2001

Paperback: 560 pages

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Protect and Defend: A Thriller

by Vince Flynn

Published: 2007-10-30

Hardcover: 401 pages

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Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)

by Gavin de Becker

Published: 2000-05-09

Paperback: 352 pages

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Safety skills for children outside the home Warning signs of sexual abuse How to screen baby-sitters and choose schools Strategies for keeping teenagers safe from violenceAll parents face the same challenges when it comes to their children's safety: whom to trust, whom to distrust, what to...

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Protector

by Laurel Dewey

Published: 2010-02-23

Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages

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Here is the gut-wrenching, heartrending story of hard-bitten Denver homicide detective Jane Perry and nine-year-old Emily Lawrence. Emily has witnessed the murder of her parents — murders authorities believe have ties to a larger wave of crime. But Emily can?t recall a thing about the ki...

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Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

by Maryanne Wolf

Published: 2008-08-26

Paperback: 336 pages

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"Human beings were never born to read," writes Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and child development expert Maryanne Wolf. Reading is a human invention that reflects how the brain rearranges itself to learn something new. In this ambitious, provocative book, Wolf chronicles the r...

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Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art

by Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo

Published: 2009-07-09

Hardcover: 352 pages

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A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries-many of them still hanging in prominent museums and private collections todayProvenance is the extraordinary narrative of one of the most far-reaching and elaborate decep...

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The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted: A Novel

by Bridget Asher

Published: 2011-03-29

Paperback: 448 pages

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“Every good love story has another love hiding within it.”   Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbott, her obsessive-compulsive seven-year-old son, and Charlotte, her jaded sixteen-year-old niece, to the small village of Puyloubier in the sou...