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This darkly comic labyrinth
of a novel opens on the desert plains of
Egypt in 1922, before winding its way from
the slums of 1900s Australia to the
ballrooms of 1920s Boston, by way of
Oxford, the battlefields of the First
World War, a royal court in turmoil in
1700 BC, and an idyllic English country
house where nothing is quite as it should
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In SAINTS AT THE RIVER, the drowning of a
thirteen-year-old girl, swept away in a whitewater river while on
vacation, divides a small Appalachian town. This tragedy brings a young
woman journalist to the community of her childhood, and on a trip back
home that forces her to confront issues buried in her past...
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THE WASP EATER is a love story about a boy’s quest to bring his
mother and father back together again. He sets out to do this by running
away to redeem a family ring at a pawn shop, as if his whole world was but
one gesture away from life, as if all of his mother’s ache and anger and
longing could be released by one symbol, a blue diamond that had always
stood for her own father and the life he promised for her and her family
before he died...
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Elif Shafak, an outstanding
name in the young generation of Turkish
authors, is a literary superstar in Turkey
where her previous four novels have won
every award available to a writer. THE SAINT OF INCIPIENT
INSANITIES is her first book written in English
and is set on a college campus in New England. It features a cast of
foreign students trying to make a place for themselves in America...
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In EARLY LEAVING,
the second novel by highly regarded poet
and novelist Judy Goldman, readers are
told the story of a comfortably middle
class mother who wakes one morning to find
the police at her door to arrest Early,
her only son -a star athlete and honor
student- for murder. We meet a woman who
is so protective of her son
--over-involved, suffocating at times --
that the only way out for him is to
disappoint her profoundly. And he does...
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Unhinged by years of rejection, an author plots a wild scheme to gain
an editor’s undivided attention...
Until I bought one, I’d never touched a gun, never stood in front of
a full-length mirror pointing a gun at myself. Bang, bang. Mine was
a Magnum .357 purchased in New Jersey, much more svelte than I’d
imagined a gun could be.
Evan Ulmer takes matters into his own hands...
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An authentic look at the emotional and ethical chaos within a war
correspondent who becomes a bit too involved, Masha Hamilton’s THE
DISTANCE BETWEEN US is a straight-ahead story of human passion -
desire, conviction, and the guilt of a survivor - struggling for order
within the frayed justice of the Middle East conflict.
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"If anybody has written a better book about the power of women's
friendships, I haven't read it. Cassandra King has caught the timbre and
import of women's voices as they speak to and of each other so perfectly
that her jersey should be retired. "The Same Sweet Girls" is
tender, funny, heartbreaking, and astoundingly unsentimental..."
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"Inez Roseman has a
brilliant career as a violinist with the
San Francisco Orchestra, a successful
husband, and two bright and talented
children. But despite her seemingly
perfect life , Inez is obsessed with
thoughts of suicide.
Sylvia Bran also has an obsession.
Enraptured with the beautiful violinist,
Sylvia pretends to be a reporter and
arranges to interview Inez..."
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"Meet Saffron Roch, a
California native who’s living her life’s
dream by traveling the world as a war
correspondent. She’s found what she thinks
is love with Oscar, a surgeon working for
Doctors Without Borders, whose enormous ego
has more to do with his “overcompensation”
than his considerable surgical skill. But
Saffron, whose daily mantra is to seek the
truth..."
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A haunting and suspenseful
novel about a brilliant young man who
enrolls at a small New England college and
becomes embroiled in a mysterious death-and
the ultimate scientific quest. Eric Dunne is
a sixteen-year-old academic phenom.
Desperate to escape his foster family, Eric
graduates early from high school and earns a
scholarship to Aberdeen College, a small,
stately school in northern Connecticut...
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Mary and Alex have attained
the pot of gold at the end of the dot-com
rainbow. Wealthy beyond their wildest
dreams, the thirtysomething Seattle couple
is now free to do whatever they wish. That
means pursuing the artistic vocations they
always felt more suited to—writing for Mary
and painting for Alex—in the intoxicatingly
inspirational...
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