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Half a life
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V. S. Naipaul |
One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly un-expected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, pu… |
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Brazen Virtue
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Nora Roberts |
D.C. Detectives: book 2
Some virtues are negotiable....
The steamy summer streets of Washington are no match for the phone lines of Fantasy, Inc., where every man's dreams come true. The "hotli… |
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Killshot
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Elmore Leonard |
It’s not Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne’s fault that they were in the real estate office when a pair of thugs walked in with extortion on their minds. But as far as aging Ojibway Indi… |
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Altes Zollhaus, Staatsgrenze West
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Jochen Schimmang |
Jochen Schimmang erzählt vom Leben an sich auflösenden Grenzen, ein Vierteljahrhundert nach dem Ende der Bonner Republik.
"Wer an der Grenze steht, kommt schnell mal einen Schritt vom Wege ab und … |
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Girl in a blue dress
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Gaynor Arnold |
At the end of her life, Catherine, the cast-off wife of Charles Dickens, gave the letters she had received from her husband to their daughter Kate, asking her to donate them to the British Museum, "s… |
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The herring-seller's apprentice
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L. C. Tyler |
A darkly subversive take on the detective novel, peopled by a memorable cast of eccentrics. |
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Matters of the Heart
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Danielle Steel |
In a spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, Danielle Steel tells a powerful and unusual story of one woman's journey from darkness into light, as she fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath… |
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
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Peter Ackroyd |
When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only… |
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Wild Nights!
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Joyce Carol Oates |
Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway---Joyce Carol Oates takes on each of these literary giants in her newest story collection, powerfully and playfully reinven… |
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Beatrice and Virgil
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Yann Martel |
Fate takes many forms. . . . When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating … |
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The Gargoyle
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Andrew Davidson |
An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time.
The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexu… |
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Cam Jansen and the mystery writer mystery
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David A. Adler |
Cam Jansen, her friends, and their parents are at school for a book fair. Everyone’s favorite mystery writer, Jim E. Winter, is also there, signing books. During the signing, Danny’s parents discover… |
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The Vanishing Passenger
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Gertrude Chandler Warner,Robert Papp |
The famous mystery writer, Gilbert Finch, is coming to Greenfield to speak at the library, and the Aldens can't wait to meet him. When they go with Grandfather to pick Finch up at the train station, … |
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Janey and the famous author
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Mary Downing Hahn |
Third-grader Janey is so excited about meeting her favorite author at a literature festival that she almost ruins the day for her entire class. |
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Ten little herrings
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L. C. Tyler |
"When obscure crime writer Ethelred Tressider vanishes, his dogged literary agent, Elsie Thirkettle, is soon on his trail. Finding him (in a ramshackle hotel in the French Loire) proves surprisingly … |
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Blown Away (Storm Front #1)
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Sharon Sala |
Writer Cari North thought she knew all about plot twists—until she stumbled across her ex-fiance, Lance Morgan, digging a grave in the Louisiana woods. After a horrifying moment of shared recognition… |
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Molly Fox's Birthday
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Deirdre Madden |
Dublin. Midsummer. While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work. Over the course of this, the longest da… |
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Good Things I Wish You
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A. Manette Ansay |
The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romances—one historical, the other modern-day—separated by thousands of miles and well over a century.Battling feelings of lo… |
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Hired: Sassy Assistant
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Nina Harrington |
The nation's favorite writer and explorer Kyle Munroe has swapped the wilds of Nepal for the grand English country house of Lulu Hamilton. The renegade Adonis needs Lulu's help to publish her famous … |
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Censoring an Iranian Love Story
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Shahriar Mandanipour |
From one of Iran's most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in English--a dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what it's li… |
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