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The Qualities of Wood

by Mary Vensel White

Published: 2014-06-05

Paperback: 320 pages

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‘A haunting and provocative debut.’ – Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of ORPHAN TRAIN The house brought them together, but secrets will tear them apart. When Betty Gardiner dies, leaving behind an unkempt country home, her grandson and his ...

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The Quality of Life Report

by Meghan Daum

Published: 2003

Hardcover: 320 pages

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One of today's most admired new voices blends social critique and a bittersweet love story marked by both style and substance.

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The Quality of Mercy: A Novel

by Barry Unsworth

Published: 2012-01-10

Hardcover: 0 pages

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Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father's death, Erasmus Kemp has had...

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The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It

by Scott Patterson

Published: 2011-01-25

Paperback: 352 pages

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?Beware of geeks bearing formulas.? --Warren Buffett   In March of 2006, the world's richest men sipped champagne in an opulent New York hotel.  They were preparing to compete in a poker tournament with million-dollar stakes, but those numbers meant nothing to them.  They were accustome...

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Quantum Wellness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness

by Kathy Freston

Published: 2008-05-20

Hardcover: 282 pages

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Quarantine: A Novel

by Jim Crace

Published: 1999-03-15

Paperback: 242 pages

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Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year and a Booker finalist: a controversial novel of faith and mystery about a group of desert travellers and their encounter with JesusQuarantine is Jim Crace's imaginative and powerful retelling of Christ's fabled 40-day fast in the desert. In Crace...

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Quarantine: A Novel

by John Smolens

Published: 2012-09-05

Hardcover: 369 pages

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An eloquent and dramatic portrait of a city plagued by mysterious pestilence—as the isolation of the quarantine reveals the darker side of human nature.The year is 1796, and a trading ship arrives in the vibrant trading town of Newburyport, Massachusetts.  But it's a ghost ship--he...

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Que el vasto mundo siga girando / Let the Great World Spin (Spanish Edition)

by Colum McCann

Published: 2010-05-30

Paperback: 554 pages

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Winner of the 2009 National Book Award for Fiction / It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the Twin Towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in this stunningly ...

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Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads : Dealing with the Parents, Teachers, Coaches, and Counselors Who Can Make--or Break--Your Child's Future

by Rosalind Wiseman, Elizabeth Rapoport

Published: 2006-03-07

Hardcover: 352 pages

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What happens to Queen Bees and Wannabes when they grow up?Even the most well-adjusted moms and dads can experience peer pressure and conflicts with other adults that make them act like they’re back in seventh grade. In Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads, Rosalind Wiseman gives us the tools to...

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Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads: Dealing with the Difficult Parents in Your Child's Life

by Rosalind Wiseman, Elizabeth Rapoport

Published: 2007-01-30

Paperback: 352 pages

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