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A Son of the Circus (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Published: 2009-09-22
Kindle Edition: 788 pages
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from John Irving's In One Person.A Hindi film star . . . an American missionary . . . twins separated at birth . . . a dwarf chauffeur . . . a serial killer . . . all are on a collision course. In the tradition of A Prayer for Owen Meany, Irving's ch...
A Son of the Circus
Published: 1995-08-30
Mass Market Paperback: 704 pages
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"A SON OF THE CIRCUS IS COMIC GENIUS....GET READY FOR IRVING'S MOST RAUCOUS NOVEL TO DATE."--The Boston Globe"Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla, reared in Bombay by maverick foes of tradition, educated in Vienna, married to an Austrian and long a resident of Toronto, is a 59-year-old without a country...
Son of the Mob
Published: 2002-10-01
Hardcover: 272 pages
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Vince Luca is just like any other high school guy. His best friend, Alex, is trying to score vicariously through him; his brother is a giant pain; and his father keeps bugging him to get motivated. There is just one thing that really sets him apart for other kids�his father happens to be the head of...
Son of the Morning
Published: 1997-03-01
Paperback: 0 pages
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New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard captivates readers in the deeply romantic tale of a contemporary woman who unravels an extraordinary mystery from the past . . . by living it. A scholar specializing in ancient manuscripts, Grace St. John never imagined that a cache of old d...
Sonata for Miriam: A Novel
Published: 2009-02-24
Paperback: 287 pages
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A haunting novel of loss, love, and human connection from the author of Astrid & Veronika Linda Olsson's first novel, Astrid & Veronika, introduced readers to her gorgeous prose, and her extraordinary understanding of human relationships. With her second novel, she once again charts that t...
A Song at Twilight - Of Alzheimer's and Love
Published: 2011-07-01
Paperback: 304 pages
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A Song at Twilight: Of Alzheimer's and Love is a feature-length memoir by acclaimed Minnesota poet Nancy Paddock. The book tells the story of her parents' descent into the netherworld of Alzheimer's, and the challenges and choices for care that she and her sisters faced while confronting t...
A Song for Mary: An Irish-American Memory
Published: 2000-03-01
Paperback: 384 pages
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Smith returns with a new memoir: a boisterous, poignant, often hilarious look at growing up irish, Catholic, and poor on the sidewalks of New York. Here, he is haunted by the specter of his mysteriously absent father. But it is Smiths mother, hardworking, no-nonsense Mary, who leads him by the hand to...
Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White
Published: 2006-06-05
Hardcover: 304 pages
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Former Time Paris Bureau Chief and bestselling author Tom Sancton returns to the New Orleans of his youth and the music that shaped and guided his life.Song for my Fathers is the story of a young white boy driven by a consuming passion to learn the music and ways of a group of aging black ...
A Song for My Mother
Published: 2011-04-05
Hardcover: 224 pages
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In this charming novel, Kat Martin brings readers back to the town of Dreyerville for another compelling story of love, loss, hope, and second chances... Years after running away with her boyfriend in her junior year of high school, Marly Hanson returns to Dreyerville at the request of her...
The Song Is You: A Novel
Published: 2008-02-19
Paperback: 256 pages
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Each song that shuffles through “that greatest of all human inventions” triggers a memory. There are songs for the girls from when he was single; there’s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, and another for the day his son was born. But when his family falls apart, even music loses its hold...
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