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Angel Killer: A Jessica Blackwood Novel

by Andrew Mayne

Published: 2014-09-23

Paperback: 368 pages

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In this self-published bestselling e-book by a real illusionist—the first thriller in a sensational series—now available in paperback, FBI agent Jessica Blackwood believes she has successfully left her complicated life as a gifted magician behind her . . . until a killer with seemingly...

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Villa America: A Novel

by Liza Klaussmann

Published: 2015-08-04

Hardcover: 432 pages

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A dazzling novel set in the French Riviera based on the real-life inspirations for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is The Night.When Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy met and married, they set forth to create a beautiful world together-one that they couldn't find within the confines of society li...

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The Race for Paris: A Novel

by Meg Waite Clayton

Published: 2015-08-11

Hardcover: 336 pages

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National BestsellerDavid J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction, Honorary Mention for 2015The New York Times bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters returns with a moving and powerfully dynamic World War II novel about two American journalists and an Englishman, who toget...

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Bald, Fat & Crazy: How I Beat Cancer While Pregnant with One Daughter and Adopting Another

by Stephanie Hosford

Published: 2015-06-15

Paperback: 228 pages

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Stephanie Hosford has a big decision to make. For her 20-year high school reunion, how should she style her hair? Little does she know, in a few months it won't matter - she'll be bald. And huge. What woman wouldn't go a little crazy? After receiving a cancer diagnosis and a positive pregnancy test...

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Chasing Sylvia Beach

by Cynthia Morris

Published: 2012-06-22

Paperback: 382 pages

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Lily Heller's affaire de coeur with Paris has existed almost as long as her love for books. Smitten with the city's literary Golden Age of the twenties, the young bookstore clerk from Denver dreams of a life like that of bold expatriate Sylvia Beach, who founded the famed Shakespeare and C...

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Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred

by Thomas Gallagher

Published: 1987-05-13

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Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the potato crop to inedible slime, and all Ireland was threatened. Index.

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Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel

by Lee Child

Published: 2015-09-08

Hardcover: 416 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, AND SUSPENSE MAGAZINE • Stephen King calls Jack Reacher “the coolest continuing series character”—and now he’s back in this masterly new thriller from Lee Child. “Why i...

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Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Published: 2015-07-14

Hardcover: 176 pages

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Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” (The New York Observer)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMA...

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The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

by Issa Rae

Published: 2015-02-10

Hardcover: 224 pages

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In the bestselling tradition of Sloane Crosley’s I Was Told There’d Be Cake and Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, a collection of humorous essays on what it’s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits, and black as cool.M...

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Almost Crimson

by Dasha Kelly

Published: 2015-05-26

Paperback: 300 pages

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From a young age CeCe copes with her mother's crippling depression, their severe poverty, an absentee father, and her own insecurities. With gorgeous language, a vivid cast of characters, and an eye for poignant detail, Dasha Kelly tells the story of CeCe's struggle to break free from the ...