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For fans of Alexander McCall Smith, a
debut mystery novel set in West Africa that introduces a marvelous detective
and a fascinatingly rich community
Set in Ghana, with the action moving back and forth between the capital city
of Accra and a small village in the Volta Region, Kwei Quartey’s lively
debut novel is the story of Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, a good family
man and a remarkably intuitive sleuth...
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Paris, October 1207. There is nothing that Alais, princess of France,
wants more than to settle down with her lover, William of Caen, and to
reveal to his ward Francis that she is his mother. But intrigue is afoot in
the palace: two monks have arrived from Rome on a mission to compel her
brother Phillipe, the King, to help them battle a dangerous breakaway
Christian sect in the south know as the Cathars...
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At last Pat Conroy brings to
his readers who are legion a novel of his
beloved Charleston. This time the
eighteen-year-old protagonist Leopold Bloom
King—yes, his mother is an ardent Joyce
scholar—meets six new classmates who will
join the senior class of Peninsula High
School and develop a deep friendship that
will last the twenty years of this glorious
novel. As Pat Conroy is not a writer to hold
back on either adventure or the pleasure of
language...
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Lisa Tucker captures the hidden
heart of the modern family. In her widely acclaimed novels, she has
established her unique gift for depicting the bewildering nature of love,
the poignant quest to belong, and the deep desire for a place to call home.
Now from the bestselling author of The Cure for Modern Life and
Once Upon a Day comes a riveting story of suspense about a literature
professor whose carefully...
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A woman in New York awakens knowing, as deeply as a mother s blood can
know, that her grown son is in danger. She has not heard from him in weeks.
His name is Jonas. His girlfriend, Vic, doesn t know what she has done
wrong, but Jonas won t answer his cell
phone. We soon learn that Jonas is isolated
in a safe-house apartment in New York City,
pondering his conversion to Islam and his
experiences training in Pakistan, preparing
for...
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A delightful interpretation of Jane
Austen’s early novella Lady Susan–a treat for fans of literature’s most
beloved woman of letters, as well as historical fiction readers.
Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan was written during the same period
in which she produced Elinor and Marianne. Like Elinor and
Marianne, Lady Susan focused on the economic and romantic plights
of two heroines displaced when...
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When Liz runs away from her
Baton Rouge home on the eve of her fifteenth
birthday, her guilt-ridden mother, Laura,
writes her a letter about her own
adolescence, hoping to give Liz insight into
her mother as a woman who has enough of her
own precarious history to understand her
daughter. In her painfully candid
confession, Laura reveals the reasons her
parents sent her away to a strict Catholic
boarding...
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In this lyrical, imaginative new novel, acclaimed author Elif Shafak
unfolds two parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the
thirteenth century, when the Sufi poet and mystic Rumi encountered his
spiritual mentor, the infamous wandering dervish known as Shams of Tabriz.
Both stories together incarnate Rumi’s timeless message of love.
American housewife Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married
when...
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The year is 1320 in France,
and writing, reading, and the supply of
costly parchment are under complete control
by an increasingly corrupted Church. When
Auda, the daughter of a papermaker in the
small town of Narbonne, is born albino, she
falls victim to an act of superstitious
violence that leaves her a mute. Yet as Auda
grows into womanhood, she reclaims her voice
using her father's cheap “cloth parchment”
to write troubadour poetry about courtly...
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The sensational murder of Dr.
Harvey Burdell in his lower Manhattan home made front-page news across the
United States in 1857. “Who killed Dr. Burdell?” was a question that gripped
our nation. 31 BOND STREET, a debut novel by Ellen Horan, interweaves
fiction with actual events in a clever historical narrative that blends
romance, politics, greed and sexual intrigue in a suspenseful drama.
The story opens when an errand boy discovers
Burdell’s body...
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The acclaimed Pen/Faulkner finalist and New
York Times best-selling author of Serena captures the eerie beauty, stark
violence, and rugged character of Appalachia in stories that span the Civil
War to present day.
Few writers know the heart and soul of a region, as does Ron Rash. Like
William Faulkner’s Mississippi or Ivan Doig’s Montana, Rash’s Appalachia is
a dichotomous land of beauty and brutality
settled by...
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TFew novels play a more
prominent role in American girlhood than
Little Women. Since it was first
published in 1868, millions of girls have
cheered on the spunky Jo March as she proved
girls could be tough, funny, and as smart as
any boy.
But Little Women fans have always
been puzzled by the novel's conclusion. Why
won't Jo marry Teddy Laurence—"Laurie"—the
charming neighbor who confesses he's loved
her...
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A complex mystery of
deception and betrayal that follows the
court case of a young man set to hang for
the murder of his father
When a famed Oxford historian is found dead
in his study one night, all evidence points
to his son, Stephen. About to be
disinherited from the family fortune,
Stephen returns to home after a long...
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In this stunning historical novel, Mary Sutter is a brilliant, headstrong
midwife from Albany, New York, who dreams of becoming a surgeon. Determined
to overcome the prejudices against women in medicine—and eager to run away
from her recent heartbreak—Mary leaves home and travels to Washington, D.C.
to help tend the legions of Civil War wounded...
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Adam Langer, the wickedly funny
author of the novels Crossing California, The Washington Story, and
Ellington Boulevard, has written a book that is at once a comical literary
caper, an exploration of authenticity and fakery, and a tribute to books.
THE THIEVES OF MANHATTAN is a novel that examines the lengths some writers
will go to succeed...
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"Art is never the voice of a country, it is an even more precious
thing, the voice of the individual, doing its best to speak, not
comfort of any sort, but truth. And the art that speaks it most
unmistakably, most directly, most variously, most fully, is
fiction."
--Eudora Welty
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