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Sherryl Woods · Mira; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods tests the strength of the beloved O'Briens and proves that love and family can always triumph! When former pro football quarterback Aidan Mitchell comes to Chesapeake Shores to take a high school coaching job, he's embraced by the town...
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Skinny Dip

Carl Hiaasen · Knopf
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn't know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he's found a way-doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue...
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Power Play

Catherine Coulter · G.P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

#1 New York Times-bestselling author Catherine Coulter returns with the newest full-throttle adventure in the FBI series featuring Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. Natalie Black, the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James, has returned to Washington, her job in jeopardy. Her fiancé,...
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Alex Cross, Run

James Patterson · Little Brown
Pages: 10
Format: Hardcover

Kill Alex Cross was "Patterson at the top of his game" (Washington Post) . Alex Cross, Run is even better. DON'T LOOK, ALEX CROSS Top plastic surgeon Elijah Creem is renowned for his skills in the operating room, and for his wild, no-expense-spared "industry parties,"...
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The Wee Free Men

Terry Pratchett · Landmark Audiobooks
Pages: 7
Format: Audio CD

Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnapped brother, Tiffany allies herself with the Chalk's...
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Lunatics

Dave Barry

Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for a local kids' soccer league. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athlete in the girls' ten-and-under soccer league, and he's not exactly happy with the
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Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems

Cesar Millan · Harmony; 1ST edition
Pages: 298
Format: Print book

"I rehabilitate dogs. I train people." - Cesar MillanThere are at least 68 million dogs in America, and their owners lavish billions of dollars on them every year. So why do so many pampered pets have problems? In this definitive and accessible guide, Cesar Millan - star of National...
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Fargo: Special Edition

William H. Macy · MGM (Video & DVD)
Format: DVD

Product Description Nominated* for seven Oscars(r) and winner of two, this darkly amusing thriller combines a first-rate cast, "a dazzling mix of mirth and malice" (Rolling Stone) and a bizarre kidnapping plot that unravels the Midwest like never before. Starring...
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Jill Bolte Taylor

The astonishing New York Times bestseller that chronicles how a brain scientist's own stroke led to enlightenment On December 10, 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven- year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke in the left hemisp
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The Road to Wellville

T Coraghessan Boyle

Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes t
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The Professor's House (Vintage Classics)

Willa Cather

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Avalon High

Meg Cabot · HarperTeen
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

Avalon High, I was starting to think, might not be so bad after all.Maybe it's not where Ellie wants to be, but if you have to start at a new school, Avalon High is typical enough: There's Lance, the jock. Jennifer, the cheerleader. And Will, senior class president, quarterback,...
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The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova · Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world...
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Scandalous Behavior

Stuart Woods · Penguin Publishing Group
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Stone Barrington is back, in fine form, in the newest thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. After a series of nonstop adventures, Stone Barrington is eager for some peace and quiet in a rustic British setting. But no sooner does he land in England than he's beset by an outrageous...
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Undercover : a novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press,
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

For DEA Special Agent Marshall Everett, life as he knows it is over once a gunshot wound renders his arm useless. Barred forever from the undercover work he loves, he has nothing -- no close friends, no family, no hometown or base, and no desire to settle for life behind a desk. He's...
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Moscow Rules

Daniel Silva · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 433
Format: Print book

The extraordinary new Gabriel Allon novel from the "gold standard" (The Dallas Morning News) of thriller writers. Over the course of ten previous novels, Daniel Silva has established himself as one of the world's finest writers of international intrigue and espionage - "a...
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The Johnstown Flood

David McCullough · Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition

The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families...
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A Hat Full of Sky

Terry Pratchett · HarperCollins
Pages: 278
Format: Print book

The second in a series of Discworld novels starring the young witch Tiffany Aching.Something is coming after Tiffany. . . .Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic. She expects spells and magic - not chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! Surely there must be more to witchcraft...
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Impossible

Nancy Werlin · Dial Books
Pages: 376
Format: Print book

For fans of Beautiful Creatures and Wicked Lovely comes this New York Times Bestselling modern fairy tale from National Book Award Finalist Nancy Werlin. Inspired by the classic folk ballad "Scarborough Fair," this wonderfully riveting novel is rife with suspense, romance, and fantasy....
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Best Kept Secret

Jeffrey Archer · Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

New York Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer continues his beloved Clifton Chronicle series as Harry and Emma finally begin building a happy life--but a dangerous family enemy is about to resurfaceBest Kept Secret opens a moment after the end of The Sins of the Father with the resolution of the trial...
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Force of Nature by C. J. Box Unabridged CD Audiobook

C. J. Box
Format: Audio CD

Unabridged CD Audiobook 9 CDs / 11.25 hours long.... Narrated by David Chandler
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Grosse Pointe Blank

George Armitage · Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Format: DVD

A comedy about a hit man, a high school reunion, and the girl he left behind.
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Sandcastles

Luanne Rice · Bantam
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her three daughters-Regis, Agnes, and Cecilia-at Star of the Sea Academy on the magical Connecticut shore. Here she teaches art at the convent school's beautiful seaside campus, over which Honor's sister-in-law, mother superior...
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Fifth Avenue Style: A Designer's New York Apartment

Howard Slatkin · Vendome Press
Format: Print book

Howard Slatkin’s philosophy is that a home should be a deeply personal refuge that gives pleasure and comfort, and in this book he shows everyone how this is done.In this gorgeously illustrated volume, Slatkin, an interior designer and founder of the iconic home-fragrance and lifestyle...
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The Heart Goes Last: A Novel

Margaret Atwood · Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pages: 308
Format: Print book

Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social...
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A Fool and His Honey

Charlaine Harris · Minotaur Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Charlaine Harris has charmed audiences recently with her noirish cozy series starring Lily Bard. Now she returns to her cozy roots with her first Aurora--Roe--Teagarden mystery since Dead Over Heels. Roe and her new and considerably older husband Martin are settled into their new life quite...
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

Oliver W. Sacks
Format: Hardcover

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Interpreter of Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri · Mariner Books
Pages: 198
Format: Paperback

Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and the baffling new world, the characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of culture and generations. In "A Temporary Matter," published in The New Yorker, a young Indian-American...
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On Chesil Beach: A Novel

Ian McEwan · Nan A. Talese; First Edition edition
Format: Downloadable archival material

A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College...
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The Namesake: A Novel

Jhumpa Lahiri · NHLA READS-TO-GO
Pages: 291
Format: Paperback

Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies" established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards...
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Luckiest Girl Alive: A Novel

Jessica Knoll · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller and "the perfect page-turner to start your summer" (People, Book of the Week) , Luckiest Girl Alive is about secrets and lies ... and whether or not the truth can really set you free."Loved Gone Girl? Luckiest Girl Alive is just as addicting"...
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The Last Werewolf

Glen Duncan · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Then she opened her mouth to screamand recognised me It was what Id been waiting for She froze She looked into my eyes She said Its you Meet Jake A bit on the elderly side he turns in March but youd never suspect it Nonstop sex and exercise will do that for youand a diet with lots of animal...
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Legend of a Suicide: Stories

David Vann · Harper Perennial; 1 Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

“The reportorial relentlessness of [David] Vann’s imagination often makes his fiction seem less written than chiseled. A small, lovely book has been written out of his large and evident pain.”—New York Times Book Review In Legend of a Suicide, his heartbreaking...
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel

Carol Rifka Brunt · The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal O The Oprah Magazine BookPage Kirkus Reviews  Booklist School Library Journal   In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest...
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Vintage Remix: The Interiors of Kishani Perera

Kishani Perera · Harry N. Abrams; 3.2.2012 edition
Format: Hardcover

Interior designer Kishani Perera knows that good design is everywhere and at every price point. Mixing modern with vintage, and retail with custom, her eclectic interiors incorporate pieces from designer showrooms and Etsy alike to create spectacularly layered, vibrant homes. In Vintage...
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Tapestry of Fortunes: A Novel

Elizabeth Berg · Random House; 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this superb new novel by the beloved author of Open House, Home Safe, and The Last Time I Saw You, four women venture into their pasts in order to shape their futures, fates, and fortunes. Cecilia Ross is a motivational speaker who encourages others to change...
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The cider house rules : a novel

John Irving · Modern Library
Pages: 592
Format: Hardcover

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Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague

Geraldine Brooks · Viking
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover

This gripping historical novel is based on the true story of Eyam, the "Plague Village," in the rugged mountain spine of England. In 1666, a tainted bolt of cloth from London carries bubonic infection to this isolated settlement of shepherds and lead miners. A visionary young...
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The Paying Guests

Sarah Waters · Penguin Group USA
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called "a tour de force" (Wall Street Journal) , "unputdownable" (The Washington Post) , "a delicious hothouse of a novel" (USA Today) , "effortless" (The Economist) , "seductive" (Vanity...
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Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen · Dalmatian Press Classics
Format: Print book

In one of the most universally loved and admired English novels, a country squire of no great means must marry off his five vivacious daughters. Jane Austen's art transformed this effervescent tale of rural romance into a witty, shrewdly observed satire of English country life.
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Furies of Calderon

Jim Butcher · Ace Books
Pages: 440
Format: Print book

In the realm of Alera, where people bond with the furies-elementals of earth, air, fire, water, and metal-fifteen-year-old Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. But when his homeland erupts in chaos-when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies-Tavi's simple courage...
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Storm Front

Jim Butcher · Roc; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry's seeing dollar signs. But where there's black magic, there's a black mage behind...
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So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish

Douglas Adams · Random House Value Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 25th Anniversary Edition

Douglas Adams · Harmony Books
Pages: 215
Format: Print book

How shall we begin?This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.orThis is the story...
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Devonshire Scream: A Tea Shop Mystery

Laura Childs · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Ming Tea Murder serves up heists, homicides, and herbal blends in the latest in the Tea Shop mysteries. Catering a high-class trunk show at Heart's Desire Jewelry is a shining achievement for Theodosia and the Indigo Tea Shop. After all, a slew...
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Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Laurell K Hamilton · Berkley Books
Pages: 305
Format: Paperback

Published over ten years ago by Ace, Guilty Pleasures marked the debut of a series that was destined to grow from cult favorite to a major New York Times bestseller. Now, for long-time Anita Blake junkies and newfound fans, Guilty Pleasures makes its trade paperback debut. Readers will...
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The Hen of the Baskervilles: A Meg Langslow Mystery

Donna Andrews · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

A dastardly murder and the kidnapping of a prize chicken threaten to ruin Caerphilly's state fair--fortunately, Meg Langslow is on the case of The Hen of the Baskervilles The newest mystery in Donna Andrews's gut-bustingly funny, award-winning, New York Times bestselling series...
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir

Bill Bryson · Broadway; 1 edition
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the sBill Bryson was born in the middle of the American centuryin the middle of the United StatesDes Moines, Iowain the middle of the largest generation...
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Calder Promise (Dailey, Janet)

Janet Dailey · Kensington; First Printing edition
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In her eighth dip into the Calder story pool, prolific romance writer Dailey focuses on Laura Calder, the 21-year-old granddaughter of crusty Montana millionaire Chase Calder. The young woman is fresh out of college and making the obligatory rich-kid tour of Europe before she settles down...
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Dead Until Dark

Charlaine Harris · Ace Hardcover; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover

Visit our Sookie Stackhouse series feature page. For years, Charlaine Harris has delighted fans with her mystery series featuring small-town waitress-turned- paranormal sleuth Sookie Stackhouse. Now, we are pleased to offer her first novel in the series in a special hardcover edition....
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Riding Lessons: A Novel

Sara Gruen · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 387
Format: Paperback

As a world-class equestrian and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, the beautiful horse she cherished.Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming home...
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Maisie Dobbs

Jacqueline Winspear · Soho
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

10th Anniversary Edition with a special Afterword by the authorMaisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady...
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Back When We Were Grownups

Anne Tyler · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 273
Format: Audio CD

"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel.The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed...
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44 Charles Street: A Novel

Danielle Steel · Delacorte Press; 1 edition
Format: Kindle Edition

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Danielle Steel's Betrayal.A magical transformation takes place in Danielle Steel’s luminous novel: Strangers become roommates, roommates become friends, and friends become a family in a turn-of-the-century house in Manhattan’s...
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Gray Mountain: A Novel

John Grisham · Random House Inc
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

John Grisham has a new hero . . . and she's full of surprises The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track - until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky"...
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The Kitchen House: A Novel

Kathleen Grissom · Touchstone Books
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

In this gripping New York Times bestseller, Kathleen Grissom brings to life a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War, where a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate.Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young,...
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Skip Rock Shallows

Jan Watson · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Format: Print book

Lilly Gray Corbett has just graduated from medical school and decided to accept an internship in the coal camp of Skip Rock, Kentucky. Her beau, Paul, is doing his residency in Boston and cant understand why Lilly would choose to work in a backwater town. But having grown up in the mountains,...
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Theodore Boone: The Fugitive

John Grisham · Listening Library
Format: Audio CD

On a field trip to Washington, DC, Theo spots a familiar face on the Metro: Duffy, who jumped bail and was never seen again. Theo's quick thinking helps bring Duffy back to Strattenburg to stand trial. But now that Duffy knows who he is, Theo is in greater danger than he's ever...
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Betsy's Return

Wanda E Brunstetter · Oasis Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

Betsy Nelson can hardly accept her father’s retirement, but she knows his failing heart demands it. She leaves her life in the city and returns home to care for him. It hurts to see a new pastor taking her papa’s place, but Betsy didn’t expect Pastor William Covington...
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The Little Friend

Donna Tartt

The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History - a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times - The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant.In a small Mississippi town,
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Cold Sassy Tree / Leaving Cold Sassy

Olive Ann Burns · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Combined edition
Format: Book

“Simply great . . . Burns is as good a writer about the South as you’re going to read for a long, long time.” —Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA classic bestseller, Cold Sassy Tree is the story of Will Tweedy, a fourteen-year-old boy coming of age at the turn of the century...
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

Nicholas Carr · W. W. Norton & Company; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: "Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind." -- Michael Agger, Slate Finalist for the 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Award "Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question,...
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Victoria: A Life

A. N. Wilson · Penguin Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

PENJacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2015 LONGLISTA shimmering and rather wonderful biography. --The Guardian UK When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was a mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe...
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The Patron Saint of Liars

Ann Patchett · Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback

Since her first publication in 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett has crafted a number of elegant novels, garnering accolades and awards along the way. Now comes a reissue of the best-selling debut novel that launched her remarkable career. St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed mothers...
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