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The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Published: 2009-04-27

Paperback: 243 pages

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First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As...

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Learning to Breathe

by Karen White

Published: 2007-03-06

Paperback: 309 pages

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Brenna O'Brien doesn't believe in happy endings. Not since the love of her life, Pierce McGovern, left her years ago without a word. Now, she leads a quiet life surrounded by her four matchmaking sisters, running a historic movie theater and collecting old wartime letters. But she leaves t...

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The Right Kind of Wrong

by Jade Eby

Published: 2013-06-27

Paperback: 250 pages

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Nothing stays hidden forever. Kara Pierce has held onto the same dream since she was a little girl: to be the next Katie Couric. Vince Gage, a budding filmmaker whose I-don't-give-a-shit attitude cancels out his charm, almost ruined it for her once, and now he’s back, threatening to do it again....

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The Loss of Leon Meed: A Novel

by Josh Emmons

Published: 2008-05-13

Paperback: 352 pages

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In Josh Emmons's inventive and utterly engaging debut, ten residents of Eureka, California, are brought together by a mysterious man, Leon Meed, who repeatedly and inexplicably appears -- in the ocean, at a local rock music club, clinging to the roof of a barreling truck, standing in the m...

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Letters to the Lost

by Iona Grey

Published: 2015-05-26

Hardcover: 384 pages

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An accomplished novel from a talented writer, Letters to the Lost is a stunning, emotional love story. Iona Grey's prose is warm, evocative, and immediately engaging; her characters become so real you can't bear to let them go.I promised to love you forever, in a time when I didn't know if...

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The Guest Book: A Novel (A Sunset Beach Novel)

by Marybeth Whalen

Published: 2012-07-08

Paperback: 336 pages

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When Macy Dillon was five years old her father encouraged her to draw a picture in the guestbook of a Carolina beach house. The next year, Macy returned to discover a drawing by an unidentified little boy on the facing page. Over the next eleven years the children continue to exchange draw...

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The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy Off the Bridge?: A Philosophical Conundrum

by Thomas Cathcart

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 144 pages

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A trolley is careering out of control. Up ahead are five workers; on a spur to the right stands a lone individual. You, a bystander, happen to be standing next to a switch that could divert the trolley, which would save the five, but sacrifice the one?do you pull it? Or say you’re watchi...

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A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales

by Dr. Ruth Calderon

Published: 2014-03-01

Paperback: 184 pages

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Browse discussion questionsRuth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites tal...

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The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands

by Eric Topol M.D.

Published: 2015-01-06

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A trip to the doctor is almost a guarantee of misery. You'll make an appointment months in advance. You'll probably wait for several hours until you hear "the doctor will see you now"?but only for fifteen minutes! Then you'll wait even longer for lab tests, the results of which you'll like...

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The Golems of Gotham: A Novel

by Thane Rosenbaum

Published: 2003-01-21

Paperback: 384 pages

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Many years have passed since Oliver Levin - a bestselling mystery writer and a lifetime sufferer from blocked emotions - has given any thought to his parents, Holocaust survivors who committed suicide. But now, after years of uninterrupted literary output, Oliver Levin finds himself blocke...