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Kaufman's Hill: A Memoir

by John C. Hampsey

Published: 2015-02-01

Hardcover: 200 pages

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Kaufman's Hill opens with a prosaic neighborhood scene: The author and some other young boys are playing by the creek, one of their usual stomping grounds. But it soon becomes clear that much more is going on; the boy-narrator is struggling to find his way in a middle-class Catholic neighb...

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The Son (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

by Jo Nesbo

Published: 2015-01-27

Paperback: 512 pages

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The author of the best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying tale of vengeance set amid Oslo's brutal hierarchy of corruption. Sonny Lofthus has been in prison for almost half his life: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply...

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Journey into the Whirlwind

by Eugenia Ginzburg

Published: 2002-11-04

Paperback: 432 pages

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Eugenia Ginzburg's critically acclaimed memoir of the harrowing eighteen years she spent in prisons and labor camps under Stalin's rule   By the late 1930s, Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg had been a loyal and very active member of the Communist Party for many years. Yet like millions of othe...

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Jeeves and the Wedding Bells

by Sebastian Faulks

Published: 2014-09-09

Paperback: 256 pages

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One B. Wooster, recently returned from a very pleasurable sojourn in Cannes, finds himself at the stately home of Sir Henry Hackwood in Dorset. Bertie is more than familiar with the country house set-up: he is a veteran of the cocktail hour and, thanks to Jeeves, his gentleman's personal g...

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* * * * Insightful,
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

by Daniel James Brown

Published: 2015-09-22

Paperback: 376 pages

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In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the fir...

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Wolf Winter

by Cecilia Ekbäck

Published: 2015-01-27

Hardcover: 376 pages

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?Wolf winter,’ she said, her voice small. ?I wanted to ask about it. You know, what it is.’He was silent for a long time. ?It’s the kind of winter that will remind us we are mortal,’ he said. ?Mortal and alone.’ Swedish Lapland, 1717. Maija, her husband Paavo and her daughters Fr...

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Women: A Novel

by Charles Bukowski

Published: 2014-07-29

Paperback: 304 pages

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How-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is revel...

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By Book or By Crook: A Lighthouse Library Mystery

by Eva Gates

Published: 2015-02-03

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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Get bound up in murder in the first Lighthouse Library mystery!For ten years Lucy has enjoyed her job poring over rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library, but she has not enjoyed the demands of her family’s social whorl or her sort-of-engagement to the staid son of her father’...

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* * * Adventurous,
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Officer Elvis: A Darla Cavannah Mystery

by Gary M. Gusick

Published: 2015-04-21

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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In the vein of Harlan Coben and Lisa Gardner, Gary Gusick takes readers on an explosive ride-along with Mississippi detective Darla Cavannah, a Yankee transplant making her name in the Deep South.   After performing at a local old-folks home, off-duty police officer and part-time Elvis im...

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* * Slow,
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The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (15)

by Alexander McCall Smith

Published: 2014-10-28

Hardcover: 227 pages

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The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency often helps people find things they have lost. But they have never had to help a client find herself—until now, in this latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith’s best-selling and beloved series.   A kindhearted brother and sister have taken in...