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The Scarlet Letter Society

by Mary T. McCarthy

Published: 2015-05-12

Paperback: 272 pages

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Meet Maggie, Eva, and Lisa, founders of The Scarlet Letter Society. Named as such due to their various infidelities, both physical and emotional, the ?SLS” is these women’s refusal to be shamed like Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic tale of forbidden longing. Maggie is t...

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Then They Came For Me: A Story of Injustice and Survival in Iran's Most Notorious Prison

by Maziar Bahari

Published: 2013-02-07

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY JON STEWART Maziar Bahari left London in June 2009 to cover Iran's contested presidential elections for Newsweek magazine. He thought he'd be returning in just a few days to Paola, his pregnant fiancee. Instead, he was incarcerated under false charges of espionage...

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* * * * Interesting,
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In the Unlikely Event

by Judy Blume

Published: 2015-06-02

Hardcover: 416 pages

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In her highly anticipated new novel, Judy Blume, the New York Times # 1 best-selling author of Summer Sisters and of young adult classics such as Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, creates a richly textured and moving story of three generations of families, friends and strangers...

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When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession

by Irvin D. Yalom

Published: 2011-03-22

Paperback: 352 pages

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"Magical." -Washington Post Book World"The best dramatization of a great thinker’s thought since Sartre’s The Freud Scenario." -Chicago TribuneFrom renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom, acclaimed author of The Schopenhauer Cure and Love’s Executioner, the international bestseller Whe...

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* * * * Dramatic,
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The Inn at Ocean's Edge (A Sunset Cove Novel)

by Colleen Coble

Published: 2015-04-14

Paperback: 336 pages

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Claire’s visit to a luxury hotel in Maine awakens repressed memories, threatening all she holds dear. In 1989, Claire Dellamare disappeared from her own fourth birthday party at the Hotel Tourmaline on the island of Folly Shoals, Maine. She showed up a year later at the same hotel, with ...

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Eden in Winter

by Richard North Patterson

Published: 2014-07-15

Hardcover: 620 pages

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Number one New York Times best-selling author Richard North Patterson, author of more than twenty novels, including Degree of Guilt and Silent Witness, returns with the dramatic conclusion to the Blaine trilogy: Eden in Winter, the final volume that completes the story begun in Fall from G...

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The Lost Island (Gideon Crew)

by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Published: 2015-03-24

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected...

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Things Half in Shadow

by Alan Finn

Published: 2014-12-30

Paperback: 448 pages

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Postbellum America makes for a haunting backdrop in this historical and supernatural tale of moonlit cemeteries, masked balls, cunning mediums, and terrifying secrets waiting to be unearthed by an intrepid crime reporter.Edward Clark is a successful young crime reporter in comfortable circ...

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Crimson Bound

by Rosamund Hodge

Published: 2015-05-05

Hardcover: 448 pages

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An exhilarating tale of darkness, love, and redemption inspired by the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood and the extravagant court of Versailles, from the author of Cruel Beauty. A doomed warrior and the king's most notorious bastard must join forces to defeat a dark evil in this g...

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Crow Hollow

by Michael Wallace

Published: 2015-06-01

Paperback: 335 pages

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In 1676, an unlikely pair—a young Puritan widow and an English spy—journeys across a land where greed and treachery abound.Prudence Cotton has recently lost her husband and is desperate to find her daughter, captured by the Nipmuk tribe during King Philip’s war. She’s convinced her...