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Now You See Himby Eli Gottlieb
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Amalia’s TaleMore by David Kertzer Examines a nineteenth-century court case in which attorney Augusto Barbieri took on the case of Amalia Bagnacavalli, an impoverished peasant woman from Bologna, Italy, who contracted syphilis from the sickly baby she had been forced to wet nurse.
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Blind FallMore by Christopher Rice Disgraced after a split-second decision nearly kills his marine captain, Iraq war veteran John Houck struggles to redeem himself in his captain's eyes and stumbles on a horrifying murder scene that wrongfully implicates the captain's partner.
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World Made by HandMore by James Howard Kunstler
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The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macawby Bruce Barcott Describes the efforts of a few determined villagers in Belize, led by Sharon Matola, the head of the Belize Zoo, to stop attempts to build a huge dam that would destroy one of Central America's great rivers and the last scarlet macaws in Belize.
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Dreamers of the DayMore by Mary Doria Russell In the wake of the Great War and the influenza pandemic of 1919, forty-year-old schoolteacher Agnes Shanklin uses her inheritance to take a trip to Egypt and the Holy Land, where she meets T.E. Lawrence and Karl Weilbacher, a German spy.
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The Secret Adventures of Charlotte BronteMore by Laura Joh Rowland Upon learning that she has been falsely accused of plagiarism, the normally mild-mannered Charlotte Brontë sets off for London to clear her name. But when she unintentionally witnesses a murder, Charlotte finds herself embroiled in a dangerous chain of events that forces her to confront demons from her past.--From publisher description.
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Fear and Yoga in New JerseyMore by Debra Galant Stressed-out yoga teacher Nina Gettleman-Summer and her family--husband Michael, suspicious mother and father, and teenage son Adam--sample a range of spiritual options in a comic search for meaning.
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Two Weeks Of Life: a Memoir of Love, Death & PoliticsMore by Eleanor Clift
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The Terror: a NovelMore by Dan Simmons "The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in." "When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival - or the harbinger of their deaths. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape."--BOOK JACKET.
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Red RiverMore by Lalita Tademy
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Necessary Sins: a Memoirby Lynn Darling
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The Last Witchfinder: a NovelMore by James Morrow "Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when this precocious child witnesses the horrifying death of her beloved Aunt Isobel, unjustly executed as a sorceress, she makes it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. A self-educated "natural philosopher," Jennet is inspired in her quest by a single sentence in a cryptic letter from Isaac Newton: "It so happens that in the Investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my System of the World, I fell upon a pretty Proof that Wicket Spirits enjoy no essential Existence." Armed with nothing but the power of reason and her memory of Isobel's love, Jennet cannot rest until she has put the last witchfinder out of business."--BOOK JACKET.
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Sliver of TruthMore by Lisa Unger
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Find MeMore by Carol O’Connell Carol O'Connell's tough-as-nails detective Mallory follows a serial murder from her own apartment building to the desert heart of Route 66, where she finds a procession of mourners searching for their missing children. FIND ME proves that O'Connell knows her genre inside and out, and the result is a devilishly creepy good read.
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Dog Years: a Memoirby Mark Doty A memoir of the author's relationship with a pair of beloved canine companions is a tribute to their irrepressible personalitites, their life-changing impact on the author and his family, and their role in how the author came to understand loss and grief.
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Water like a Stone: a NovelMore by Deborah Crombie
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Go With Me: a Novelby Castle Freeman
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Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Timeby Rob Sheffield Sheffield relates the two important love affairs of his life, the first with music and the fine art of the perfect mix tape, and the second with a woman who changes him forever.
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Final Exam: a Surgeon's Reflections on Mortalityby Pauline W. Chen Final Exam follows Chen over the course of her education, training, and practice as she grapples at strikingly close range with the problem of mortality, and struggles to reconcile the lessons of her training with her innate knowledge of shared humanity and to separate her ideas about healing from her fierce desire to cure.--BOOK JACKET.
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Sacred GamesMore by Vikram Chandra "Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh - and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India." "Sartaj, one of the very few Sikhs on the Mumbai police force, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But "the silky Sikh" is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an anonymous tip-off as to the secret hide-out of the legendary boss of G-Company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize."--BOOK JACKET.
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Returning to EarthMoreby Jim Harrison "In Returning to Earth, Harrison has delivered a novel about life, death, and finding redemption in sometimes unlikely places." "Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, married to a white woman who renounced the wealth she was raised with, and father to two grown children." "He is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease and realizes no one alive will be able to pass on to his children their family history once he is gone. He begins dictating to his wife, Cynthia, stories he has never shared with anyone - about how three generations ago his family settled in Michigan at the height of the logging industry; about his own relationship to his unique spiritual heritage. Meanwhile, around him, his family struggles with how to lay him to rest with the same dignity with which he always lived." "Over the course of the year following Donald's death, his loved ones struggle to make sense of their loss. His daughter begins studying Chippewa ideas of death for clues on her father's religion, and her mother, Cynthia, is at loose ends for how to protect or guide her. Bereft of the family she created to escape the malevolent influence of her own father, Cynthia and her eccentric brother, David, find, all these years later, that redeeming the past is not a lost cause." "Jim Harrison writes about the heart of this country like no other writer - about the culture of Native America, the natural world and our place in it, the loss that has shaped our history, and the pleasures that raise life to the sublime."--BOOK JACKET.
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Silent in the GraveMore by Deanna Raybourne When her husband dies under suspicious circumstances, Lady Julia Grey investigates and discovers "disturbing truths about a husband she never truly knew and a world of deception, disease and sexual obsession she could never have imagined" ("Publishers Weekly").
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Kockroachby Tyler Knox "It is the mid-1950s, and in a fleabag hotel off Times Square, Kockroach, perfectly content with life as an insect, awakens to discover that somehow he's become, of all things, a human. This tragic turn of events would be enough to fling a more highly evolved creature into despair, but cockroaches know no despair. Firmly entrenched in the present tense, they are awesome coping machines, and so Kockroach copes. Step by step, he learns the ways of humans - how to walk, how to talk, how to wear a jaunty brown fedora." "In Times Square he discovers a blistering sea of lights, a great smoking god, walls of glass laden with food, and the opportunity to rise in the human world. Two companions guide him on his way: Mite, an undersized gangster suffering an acute case of existential angst, and Celia Singer, a reserved woman with a disfigured body who finds in Kockroach a key to unlocking her hidden passions." "As Kockroach, led by his primitive desires and insectile amorality, navigates through the bizarre human realms of crime, business, politics, and sex, he meets with both great triumph and great disaster. Will he find success or be squashed flat from above? Will he change humanity, or will humanity change him?" "Packed with love, violence, and a perverse sense of humor, Kockroach is the classic tale of an immigrant's search for the American dream as seen from a new perspective."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Saffron Kitchenby Yasmin Crowther "On a blustery day in London, the dark secrets and troubled past of Maryam Mazar surface violently, with tragic consequences for her daughter, Sara, and her newly orphaned nephew Saeed. Consumed with guilt, Maryam leaves the safe comfort of her suburban home and mild English husband to return to Mazareh, the remote village on Iran's northeast border where her own story began. There she must face her past and the memories of a life she was forced to leave behind, in the days when she was young, headstrong, and beautiful." "Back in England, Sara, who has never felt a strong tie to Maryam's birthplace, tries to understand what could have compelled her mother to leave. Together with Saeed and her distraught father, she begins to unearth Maryam's story from amid her memories of opium poppies, family lore and fragments of conversation, photographs and a few lines of poetry. In her quest to piece their life back together, Sara follows her mother to Iran to discover the roots of her unhappiness and to try to bring her home. Far from the streets of London, in a land of minarets, among the snow-capped mountains and dusty plains that have haunted her mother's dreams for half a century, Sara finally learns the terrible price Maryam once had to pay for her freedom, and of the love she left behind."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Teahouse Fireby Ellis Avery
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Mistress of the Art of DeathMore by Ariana Franklin
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In the Country of Menby Hisham Matar On a hot day in Tripoli in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman spots his father, supposedly away on business, across from the market square and wearing dark glasses, the first portent of grave danger in a previously unsuspected world.
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Flower ConfidentialMore by Amy Stewart "For over a century hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists around the world have worked to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature could provide. Almost any flower, in any color, is for sale at any time of year." "Amy Stewart travels the globe to take us inside this dazzling world. She tracks down scientists intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horticultural legend who created the world's most popular lily (the 'Star Gazer'); a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite, high-end organic roses that are the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. She sees firstHand how flowers are grown and harvested on farms in Latin America, California, and Holland. (It isn't always pretty.)"--BOOK JACKET.
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Lost City RadioMore by Daniel Alarcón "For ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation for a people broken by violence. She hosts Lost City Radio, the most popular program in their nameless South American country, gripped in the aftermath of war. Every week, the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios listen as she reads the names of those who have gone missing, those whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed. Loved ones are reunited and the lost are found. Each week, she returns to the airwaves while hiding her own personal loss: her husband disappeared at the end of the war." "But the life she has become accustomed to is forever changed when a young boy arrives from the jungle and provides a clue to the fate of her long-missing husband." "Lost City Radio probes the deepest questions of war and its meaning: from its devastating impact on a society transformed by violence to the emotional scarring each participant, observer, and survivor carries for years after."--BOOK JACKET.
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American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New Chinaby Matthew Polly Growing up a ninety-eight-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, young Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become the toughest fighter in the world, like Caine in his favorite TV series, Kung Fu. Later, much to the dismay of his parents, he dropped out of Princeton, hopped on a plane to China, and set out in search of spiritural enlightenment and ass-kicking power with the legendary sect of monks who invented Zen Buddhism and kungfu.
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The Zero: a Novelby Jess Walter "From its opening pages - when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head - novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the aftershocks of a devastating terrorist attack. As the smoke slowly clears, Remy finds that his memory is skipping, lurching between moments of lucidity and days when he doesn't seem to be living his own life at all. The landscape around him is at once fractured and oddly familiar: a world dominated by a Machiavellian mayor known as "The Boss," and peopled by gawking celebrities, anguished policemen peddling First Responder cereal, and pink real estate divas hyping the spoils of tragedy. Remy himself has a new girlfriend he doesn't know, a son who pretends he's dead, and an unsettling new job chasing a trail of paper scraps for a shadowy intelligence agency known as the Department of Documentation. Whether that trail will lead Remy to an elusive terror cell - or send him circling back to himself - is only one of the questions posed by this provocative yet deeply human novel."--BOOK JACKET.
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Angel’s Restby Charles Davis "In 1967, a shotgun blast kills Charlie's father and puts his mother on trial for murder. When Hollis Thrasher, a reclusive Korean War veteran, is linked to his father's death, Charlie embarks on a dangerous midnight journey pitting him against his darkest fears." Syndetics content
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Crisis, Pursued by Disaster, Followed Closely by Catastrophe: A Memoir of Life on the Runby Mike O’Connor A journalist recounts his turbulent childhood and the upheaval that forced his parents to repeatedly uproot the family and flee without explanation, and discusses how, after his parents' deaths, he used his skills as an investigative reporter to uncover the truth about his past.
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Here if You Need MeBy Kate Braestrup The author documents her decision to pursue her husband's ambition to become a minister after his tragic accidental death, describing how she eventually became a spiritual counselor for families with missing loved ones during search-and-rescue missions.
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Revenge of the Donut Boys: True Stories of Lust, Fame, Survival and Multiple Personalityby Mike Sager ISBN:1568583508
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The Living: a NovelMore by Annie Dillard This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century. Syndetics
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Sugarcane Academy: How a New Orleans Teacher and His Storm-Struck Students Created a School To Rememberby Michael Tisserand This inspiring book shows how a dedicated teacher made the best out of the worst situation, and how the children of New Orleans adjusted to Hurricane Katrinas consequences.
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The Good Journey: a Novelby Micaela Gilchrist Historical Fiction
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Dancing at the Rascal FairMore by Ivan Doig Anna Ramsey and Angus McCaskill engage in a fateful contest of the heart as they forge new lives in the beautiful Two Medicine country of Montana.
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Billy Boyle: A World War II MysteryJames R. Benn Billy Boyle, a young Irish-American cop from Boston has just made detective - with a little help from his cop relatives and friends - when World War II breaks out. His rabidly anti-English family calls on his mother's distant cousin, Mamie, married to a general, to wangle a staff job for him far from the fighting. But instead of a "safe, cushy" stateside assignment, he is ordered to London, still undergoing the Blitz. His "Uncle Ike" is Dwight D. Eisenhower, plucked from obscurity to command Army forces in Europe, and he wants Billy to be his personal investigator.""A theft and two murders test Billy's investigative powers, as he comes to grips with the deadly demands of a war he never wanted any part of. To his own surprise - and that of others - Billy proves to be a better detective than any one expected."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Late Bloomer’s Revolution: A MemoirBy Amy Cohen A former sitcom writer describes her hapless ongoing quest for a life purpose and satisfaction, from an endless search for love and her evolving relationship with her widowed father to the unintentional lessons she has learned while stumbling through life.
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Sarah’s KeyBy Tatiana deRosnay On the anniversary of the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris, Julia is asked to write an article on this dark episode and embarks on an investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah.
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Heartbreak HotelMore by Anne Rivers Siddons The coming of age of a young Southern woman during the Civil Rights era.
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The Zen of Fish: the Story of Sushi, from Samurai to SupermarketMore by Trevor Corson In this richly reported documentary Corson, journalist and author of "The Secret Life of Lobsters," shadows several American sushi novices as well as a master Japanese chef to give readers an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the elusive art of cooking without cooking.
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How to Pick a Peach: the Search for Flavor from Farm to TableMore by Russ Parsons In this follow-up to his critically acclaimed "How to Read a French Fry," Parsons helps the cook sort through the produce in the market; reveals intriguing facts about vegetables and fruits; and provides instructions on how to choose, store, and prepare these items.
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The Mercy Seatby Rilla Askew Few first novels garner the kind of powerful praise awarded this epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, where two brothers are deadlocked in a furious rivalry. Fayette is an enterprising schemer hoping to cash in on his brother's talents as a gunsmith. John, determined not to repeat the crime that forced both families to flee their Kentucky homes, doggedly follows his tenacious brother west, while he watches his own family disintegrate. Wondrously told through the wary eyes of John's ten-year-old daughter, Mattie, whose gift of premonition proves to be both a blessing and a curse, The Mercy Seat resounds with the rhythms of the Old Testament even as it explores the mysteries of the Native American spirit world. Sharing Faulkner's understanding of the inescapable pull of family and history, and Cormac McCarthy's appreciation of the stark beauty of the American wilderness, Rilla Askew imbues this momentous work with her tremendous energy and emotional range. It is an extraordinary novel from a prodigious new talent. Strange Business, a collection of linked stories that won the 1993 Oklahoma Book Award, is available from Penguin.
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The River Queenby Mary Morris In fall 2005 travel writer Mary Morris set off down the Mississippi in a battered old houseboat called the River Queen, with two river rats named Tom and Jerry--and a dog who hated her. It was a time of emotional turmoil for Morris: her father had just died; her daughter was leaving home; life was changing all around her. So she decided to return to the Midwest where she was from, to the river she remembered. Morris describes living like a pirate and surviving a tornado. Because of Katrina, oil prices, and drought, the river was often empty--a ghost river. As she learned to pilot her boat and made peace with her dog, Morris got her groove back, reconnecting to her past.
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Special Topics in Calamity PhysicsBy Marish Pessl Having moved from one academic outpost to another throughout her childhood, Blue van Meer attends the elite St. Gallway School in her senior year, where the deaths of a teacher and student awaken her analytical instincts.
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Black Swan Green: A NovelMore by David Mitchell A meditative novel of a young boy on the cusp of adulthood follows a single year in the life of thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor as he grows up in what is for him the sleepiest village in Worcestershire, England, in 1982.
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Sixth Extinction: Journeys Among the Lost and Left BehindBy Terry Glavin "Terry Glavin confirms that we are in the midst of a nearly unprecedented, catastrophic vanishing of animals, plants, and human cultures. He argues that the language of environmentalism is inadequate in describing the unraveling of the vast system in which all these extinctions are actually related. And he writes that we're no longer gaining knowledge with every generation. We're losing it." Book Summary
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Once Upon A Day: A NovelMore by Lisa Tucker
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Night WatchMore by Terry Pratchett Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he #8217;s back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck #8230; Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There #8217;s a problem: if he wins, he #8217;s got no wife, no child, no future #8230; A Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen and other children of the revolution. Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a Hard-boiled Egg!
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The Good Good PigMore by Sy Montgomery An ardent nature lover describes her unique friendship with a pig named Christopher Hogwood, a once sickly piglet who helped her develop a new relationship with neighbors in her small-town community.
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The Kings English: Adventures of an Independent BooksellerBy Betsy Burton Burton opened her bookstore in Salt Lake City in 1977, dedicated to her passion for books and to making them available in a welcoming, comfortable space. Little did she know what would follow in the next few decades: vicious competition from national chains and the net, censorship under the Patriot Act, strange twists in reading tastes, and even stranger tastes in visiting authors whose lists of demands read like those of rabid rock stars. With each chapter she includes innovative book lists, such as a list of "psychology and self-help books paired with fiction dealing with like concerns." Although written with an eye to those in the book selling business, Burton also keeps in mind the reason why any books are sold at all: readers with money in hand who are as passionate as she about books. Syndetics
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SmonkMore by Tom Franklin
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Girls of a Tender AgeMore by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
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The World To Come: a NovelMore by Dara Horn
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Ghost Map: the Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic-- and How It Changed the Way We Think About...More by Steven Johnson Ghost Map: the Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic-- and How It Changed the Way We Think About Disease, Cities, Science, and the Modern World
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Last Town on Earth: a Novelby Thomas Mullen
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The Red Parts: a Memoirby Maggie Nelson
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Jackpot Nation: Rambling and Gambling Across Our Landscape of LuckMore by Richard Hoffer
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Welfare Brat: a MemoirBy Mary Childers
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Opening Day : All Major League Baseball Season Opening Games, By Team, 1876-1998by Don Kerr
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Truck: a Love Storyby Michael Perry
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Three Miss Margarets: a NovelMiss Peggy, Dr. Maggie, and Miss Li'l Bit , friends and confidantes for nearly a lifetime, find it funny and bewildering that they have become icons in Charles Valley, Georgia. Little does the rest of the town know that beneath the irreproachable facades of its three doyennes lies an explosive decades-old secret that is about to be revealed. Thirty-odd years ago the three Miss Margarets did something extraordinary, clandestine, and very illegal. Although they are haunted by the night that changed their lives, they believe that their crime was simply a matter of righting an egregious wrong. But when a stranger's arrival in town and a tragic death open the floodgate of memory, their loyalty, friendship, and honor are tested in ways they could never have imagined;particularly when they have to contend with Laurel Selene, a young woman who has spent her life nursing an alcoholic mother and a huge grudge. Now Laurel is on the verge of discovering what happened the night the three Miss Margarets swore their oath of secrecy. Once she knows, will she reveal the truth about the three women she was raised to despise? Or will she face her own troubled history and put the dark legacy they all share behind them? The Three Miss Margarets is an irresistible, page-turning exploration of the past and the myriad ways it exerts a hold on the present. From the Hardcover edition. More by Louise Schaffer
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