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The House

by Danielle Steel

Published: 2006-02-28

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The restoration of a majestic old home provides the exhilarating backdrop for Danielle Steel’s 66th bestselling novel, the story of a young woman’s dream, an old man’s gift, and the surprises that await us behind every closed door…. Perched on a hill overlooking San Francisco, ...

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Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children

by Ransom Riggs

Published: 2015-02-24

Paperback: 416 pages

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Read the sequel to the New York Times #1 best-selling book. The movie adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is now a major motion picture from visionary director Tim Burton, staring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Samual L. Jackson, and Judi Dench.Bonus fe...

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Ten Beach Road (Novel)

by Wendy Wax

Published: 2012-04-24

Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages

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Another perfect beach read from the USA Today bestselling author of While We Were Watching Downton Abbey.  Madeline, Avery, and Nikki are strangers to each other, but they have one thing in common. They each wake up one morning to discover their life savings have vanished, along with the...

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The Siege: A Novel

by Helen Dunmore

Published: 2002-11-22

Paperback: 304 pages

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Called "elegantly, starkly beautiful" by The New York Times Book Review, The Siege is Helen Dunmore's masterpiece. Her canvas is monumental -- the Nazis' 1941 winter siege on Leningrad that killed six hundred thousand -- but her focus is heartrendingly intimate. One family, the Levins, fig...

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TIME The 100 Most Influential People Who Never Lived

by Editors of Time Magazine

Published: 2013-09-17

Hardcover: 128 pages

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We know them better than we know our friends: brilliant Sherlock Holmes; stingy Ebenezer Scrooge; the idealistic Don Quixote; the obsessed Captain Ahab. Hamlet is indecisive and world-weary; Romeo and Juliet are young, lusty and impulsive; Indiana Jones is dashing, learned and courageous. ...

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West of Sunset

by Stewart O'Nan

Published: 2015-01-13

Hardcover: 289 pages

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A “rich, sometimes heartbreaking” (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years in HollywoodLook out for City of Secrets coming from Viking on April 26, 2016 In 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, ...

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* * * * Interesting,
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A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir

by Lev Golinkin

Published: 2014-11-04

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A compelling story of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered past. In the twilight of the Cold War (the late 1980s), nine-year old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet border with only ten suitcases, $600...

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Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds

by Joy Adamson

Published: 2000-05-16

Paperback: 224 pages

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There have been many accounts of the return to the wild of tame animals, but since its original publication in 1960, when the New York Times hailed it as a "fascinating and remarkable book," Born Free has stood alone in its power to move us.Joy Adamson's story of a lion cub in transition b...

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Little Black Dress

by Andre Leon Talley, Gioia Diliberto, Maureen Dowd

Published: 2013-04-02

Hardcover: 184 pages

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Defined by the simplest parameters - colour and shape - yet voluminous in possibility, the little black dress is personalised by the designer who imagined it and the woman who wears it. This volume presents a timeless anthology, with each dress included in the show and catalogue an eloquent translation...

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The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, Book 2)

by Megan Whalen Turner

Published: 2006-01-24

Paperback: 368 pages

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When his small mountains country goes to war with the powerful nation of Attolia, Eugenides the thief is faced with his greatest challenge. He must steal a man, he must steal a queen, and he must steal peace.But his greatest triumph-as well as his greatest loss-can only come if he succeeds...