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The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom

by Nancy Goldstone

Published: 2015-06-23

Hardcover: 448 pages

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The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century.Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two ...

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The Bone Tree: A Novel (Penn Cage Novels)

by Greg Iles

Published: 2015-04-21

Hardcover: 816 pages

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Greg Iles continues the electrifying story begun in his smash New York Times bestseller Natchez Burning in this highly anticipated second installment of an epic trilogy of blood and race, family and justice, featuring Southern lawyer Penn Cage.Former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancée, ...

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The Green Road: A Novel

by Anne Enright

Published: 2015-05-11

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness?a book about the gaps in the human heart and how...

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Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish

by John Hargrove, Howard Chua-Eoan

Published: 2015-03-24

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that the...

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Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (The Terry Lectures Series)

by Marilynne Robinson

Published: 2011-06-28

Paperback: 176 pages

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In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought—science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges ...

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Welding with Children: Stories

by Tim Gautreaux

Published: 2009-01-06

Paperback: 224 pages

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A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIn eleven raucous, touching stories, Tim Gautreaux traces the course of sin and redemption through the lives of small-town women and men in Louisiana. His unforgettable characters include a grandfather who discovers, while ctaking care of his grandc...

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Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

by Barbara Brown Taylor

Published: 2012-05-01

Paperback: 251 pages

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“This beautiful book is rich with wit and humanness and honesty and loving detail….I cannot overstate how liberating and transforming I have found Leaving Church to be.” —Frederick Buechner, author of Beyond Words“This is an astonishing book. . . . Taylor is a better writer than ...

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Drawn Into Darkness

by Nancy Springer

Published: 2013-11-05

Paperback: 336 pages

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Darkness lies closer than you think....Liana Clymer is running away—from her divorce, from her past, from herself. Leaving behind everything she knows, she finds herself ensconced in a fuchsia-colored cottage in the swampy hinterlands of the Florida panhandle. Far from the grown sons who...

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The Guns of August: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Classic About the Outbreak of World War I

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Published: 2004-08-03

Mass Market Paperback: 640 pages

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeThe Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War eraIn this landmark, Pulitzer Prize–winn...

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The American Novel and Its Tradition

by Richard Chase

Published: 1980-05-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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"Since the earliest days," writes Richard Chase in this classic study, "the American novel, in its most original and characteristic form, has worked out its destiny and defined itself by incorporating an element of romance." In his detailed study of works by Charles Brockden Brown, James F...