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Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

by Rosemary Sullivan

Published: 2015-06-02

Hardcover: 768 pages

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A New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable BookThe award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history’s most monstrous dictators—her father, J...

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The Corpse Reader

by Antonio Garrido

Published: 2013-05-28

Paperback: 494 pages

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After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Cí Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he’s forced to run and also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored, he has no choice but to accept work as a lowly gravedigge...

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The Bastard (The Kent Family Chronicles)

by John Jakes

Published: 2004-01-06

Mass Market Paperback: 544 pages

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Praised by Patricia Cornwell as “the best historical novelist of our time,” John Jakes began his bestselling career with this vibrant novel of romance and adventure. The Bastard begins the enduring eight-volume saga of the Kent family, and their participation in the events that shaped ...

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The Heidi Chronicles: Uncommon Women and Others & Isn't It Romantic

by Wendy Wasserstein

Published: 1991-07-02

Paperback: 249 pages

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The graduating seniors of a Seven Sisters college, trying to decide whether to pattern themselves after Katharine Hepburn or Emily Dickinson. Two young women besieged by the demands of mothers, lovers, and careers—not to mention a highly persistent telephone answering machine—as they s...

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Maggie's Turn

by Deanna Lynn Sletten

Published: 2015-07-14

Paperback: 237 pages

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Maggie has always put her family’s needs in front of her own, until one day—without forethought—she drives away, leaving behind her indifferent husband and two sulking teenagers.As she begins a quest of self-exploration, she meets new people, enjoys new adventures, and rediscovers lo...

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Orphan #8: A Novel

by Kim van Alkemade

Published: 2015-08-04

Paperback: 416 pages

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New York Times and USA Today BestsellerIn this stunning new historical novel inspired by true events, Kim van Alkemade tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New...

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Wolf Whistle

by Lewis Nordan

Published: 2003-10-05

Paperback: 312 pages

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ALA Notable Book; 1994 Mississippi Writers Award for Fiction; 1994 Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In WOLF WHISTLE, Lewis Nordan unleashes the hellhounds of his prodigious imagination on one of the most notorious racial killings of the century, the Emmett Till murder. Soon...

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Don't Know Jack (The Hunt for Jack Reacher Series) (Volume 1)

by Diane Capri

Published: 2012-01-26

Paperback: 340 pages

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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Delivers in this Hunt for Jack Reacher book! "Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her." Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers Jack Reacher: Friend...

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Candyland: A Novel In Two Parts

by Ed McBain, Evan Hunter

Published: 2001-01-03

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Evan Hunter is known for his powerful novels and screenplays. Ed McBain is known for portraying the soul of the cop. They have distinct narrative voices, but both are bestselling storytellers who have received worldwide acclaim. Now, in "Candyland," they join for the first time to write a single story...

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Too Late for Apologies: How well do you know your sister?

by Michiko Katsu

Published: 2015-02-07

Paperback: 344 pages

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When Jane Lowe finds out her brother is dead, she realizes the only way to find his killer is with her sister’s help. Estranged for twenty years neither has the patience nor the desire to tolerate the other but with a mutual goal they accept their circumstances and agree to work together to find the...