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The Washington Story takes the characters Adam Langer introduced in his
critically acclaimed first novel Crossing California forward in time
into the 1980's, and beyond the boundaries of West Rogers Park, Chicago...
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In a previous life, Herman
“Hank” Fins-Winston had been a golf pro—an
excellent teacher of the game who never
quite made it on the circuit, having missed
his one real shot at greatness. He now lives
in a lovely condominium on the thirteenth
fairway of one of heaven’s 8,187 golf
courses. God and His closest companions, you
see, play the game often...
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At eighty-seven years old,
Agatha McGee knows she is slowing down. From
the window of her new home in the Sunset
Senior apartments, she can see that
Staggerford has become a town with hustle
and bustle that threatens to leave her
behind. She's not quite ready for the kind
of slow-paced participation that arts and
crafts classes and weekly trips to the Blue
Sky Casino promise...
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Devastating in its power,
remarkable in its achievement, here is a
searing, addictively readable novel that
vividly captures the delicate balance of
class and gender in contemporary
India—witnessed through the lives of two
compelling women
Set in Bombay, The Space Between Us is a
wondrously imagined, emotionally rich
snapshot of modern India...
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In this enthralling new
novel, Russia’s most
famous poet, Aleksander Blok, summons Maria
Rasputin to appear before a revolutionary
tribunal to tell the story of her infamous
father. Taking us back to the week before
her father’s murder in December 1916, Maria
recounts in intimate detail the sexual,
political, and religious activities ...
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Fusing past and present, a
fierce new novelist pens a remarkable debut
novel of courage across time and culture,
set amid the stark beauty of the Aleutian
Islands - an heir to the classics Clan of
the Cave Bear and Shipping News, but with a
female protagonist as engaging and modern as
Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum...
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A wonderfully spare and
elegant novel in which the 900-day siege of
Leningrad during World War II is echoed by
the destructive siege against the mind and
memory of an elderly Russian woman suffering
from Alzheimer's. The novel shifts between
two settings: 1941 Leningrad, when the city
was surrounded by German troops, and the
present-day, as Marina, who had been a
docent at Leningrad's Hermitage Museum
during WWII...
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In a rural Appalachian
community haunted by the legacy of a Civil
War massacre, a rebellious young man
struggles to escape the violence that would
bind him to the past. Travis Shelton is
seventeen the summer he wanders onto a
neighbor’s property in the woods, discovers
a crop of marijuana large enough to make him
some serious money, and steps into the jaws...
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Nineteen years ago, a
famous man disappeared from L.A., taking his
two children to a rocky, desolate corner of
New Mexico where he raised them in complete
isolation in a utopian “Sanctuary,” away
from the decadence of America. Now,
Dorothea, the man’s twenty-three-year-old
daughter, is leaving this place for the
first time, in search of her missing
brother, a brilliant painter who fled the
Sanctuary himself...
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A shocking biological
discovery. A previously unknown predatory
species. Evolving just like the dinosaurs.
Now. Today. Being forced out of its world
and into man's for a violent first
encounter. Weaving science and thriller in a
way not seen since Jurassic Park, Natural
Selection introduces a phenomenally
dangerous new species that is rapidly
adapting in a way never before seen...
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In ALL THE NUMBERS, author Judy Merrill Larsen skillfully takes us
through every parent’s worst nightmare as she brilliantly explores, through
fiction, how love makes us vulnerable and how very isolating yet very human
is the desire for revenge. A trial takes us to a highly charged ending in
which, in an unexpected turn, Ellen reconciles the pain of an irreversible
past with the duty ahead....
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In THE CAMEL BOOKMOBILE
Masha Hamilton tells the story of an
idealistic American woman, Fi Sweeney, who
works for a bookmobile established by a
relief organization to supply books to
remote villages in Africa. The bookmobile
visits of this novel divide the people of a
nomadic tribe it intends to serve: Scar Boy,
the village teacher Matani, and others...
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