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In THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL,
Turkish author Elif Shafak confronts her
country’s violent past in a vivid and
colorful tale about the tangled history of
two families – one Turkish and one Armenian
American. Asya is a nineteen year old woman
who loves Johnny Cash and the French
existentialists. She lives in an extended
household in Istanbul, where she has been...
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It’s not easy being the
Queen of Broken Hearts. Just ask Clare, who
has willingly assumed the mantle while her
career as a divorce coach thrives. Now she’s
preparing to open a permanent home for the
retreats she leads, on a slice of
breathtaking property on the Alabama coast
owned by her mother-in-law. Make that former
mother in law, a colorful eccentric...
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From critically acclaimed
best selling author Arthur Phillips comes a
brilliant new novel that is part Victorian
ghost story, part literary and psychological
puzzle, part meditation on memory and fear.
The novel opens in London, the 1880’s, and
the Barton household is on the brink of
collapse. Mother, father, and daughter
provoke each other, consciously and
unconsciously, and a horrifying crisis...
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An incisive,
beautifully-written first novel by a former
supermodel exploring the glamorous, gritty,
and sometimes ghastly world she inhabited.
Only a handful of women in the world have
experienced what Paulina Porizkova has—being
whisked away to model in Paris while still a
teenager, reaching the pinnacle of the
profession before her...
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In LAST ONE IN by Nicholas
Kulish, a young gossip columnist makes the
worst mistake of his career when he wrongly
accuses a big star of cheating on his wife.
With lawsuits pending, the tabloid’s
imperious new editor blackmails him into
taking the place of the paper's injured
front-line war correspondent. Shipped off to
the desert and embedded with a group of...
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Chicago, 1957. Italian-American immigrants Angela Rosa and Agostino
Peccatori still cling to their old ways even as they cope with raising a
family in an unfamiliar land. Angela Rosa has devoted her entire adult life
to her children, while Agostino runs the corner social club and tavern, and
often indulges his weakness for the ladies.
Their oldest son ...
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Set in Manhattan–the
conniption capital of the world–a riotously
funny and fresh debut novel about anger,
infidelity, and friendship.
Through a hilarious series of events, two
strangers find themselves railroaded into an
anger management class where they soon
become fast friends. Iris is there because
of an eminently justifiable...
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Ron Rash is the poet
laureate of Appalachia, a writer whose
insight and empathy have illuminated this
terrain in three transcendent novels,
stories and collections of poems. In his
latest volume of stories, spanning the
entire twentieth century in this region,
Rash chronicles the onset of the modern era
in rural communities, the deterioration of
the old ways, and the violent arrival of a
larger world...
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Maurice and Norman Messer,
father-and-son business partners, know a
good product when they see it. That product
is the Holocaust, and Maurice, a Holocaust
survivor with an inflated personal history,
and Norman, enjoying vicarious victimhood as
a participant in the second-generation
movement, proceed to market it
enthusiastically. Not even the disappearance
of Nechama, Norman’s daughter and Maurice’s
granddaughter, into the Carmelite convent at
Auschwitz...
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After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut,
Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or
even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency
England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy?
Not only is Courtney stuck in another
woman’s life, she is forced to pretend she
actually is that woman; and despite knowing
nothing about her, she manages to fool even
the most astute...
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IF TODAY BE SWEET, a novel,
deals with the personal story behind one of
the hot political issues of our
time--immigration. It is the story of
Tehmina Sethna, a middle-aged widow who
faces the agonizing decision of which place
to call home -- India or America, the past
or the future. Her past belongs in India,
where she lived a happy life with her
husband, Rustom. Her future lies with her
son, Sorab, who lives with his American wife
and son in suburban Ohio. And at present,
Tehmina is straddling two worlds...
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A newly wed housewife in
the conformist 1950s falls in love with a
grand abandoned house in town, and begins to
unravel a family’s dark secrets. When Dolly
Magnuson moves to 1950s Pine Rapids,
Wisconsin, she discovers all too soon that
making marriage work is harder than it looks
in the pages of the Ladies’ Home Journal. As
Dolly adapts to her new life—keeping the
house, supporting her husband’s career,
fretting about dinner menus...
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