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Burial Rites: A Novel
Hannah Kent - Little, Brown and Company; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829.Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated... |
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Love Anthony
Lisa Genova - Gallery Books; 1ST edition
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning New York Times bestselling author Lisa Genovawhose novel Still Alice is soon to be a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore Alec Baldwin Kate Bosworth and Kristen Stewartcomes a novel about autism and unconditional loveIm always hearing about how my brain doesnt... |
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True Grit
Charles Portis - Center Point; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover
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Mattie Ross is just 14 years old when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, robbing him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. Accompained by the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn -- the meanest available US Marshall -- Mattie leaves home to avenge... |
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The Wright Brothers
David G McCullough - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times bestseller Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown... |
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman - W.W. Norton
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred people from the Nazis by hiding refugees in the empty animal... |
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My Life in France
Julia Child - Anchor; Mti edition
Format: Paperback
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Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didnt know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France.Indeed,... |
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Homegoing: A novel
Yaa Gyasi - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book PrizeA New York Times 2016 Notable BookOne of Oprah's 10 Favorite Books of 2016NPR's Debut Novel of the YearOne of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016, Winner of 2017 PEN Hemingway award for debut... |
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The Summer Before the War: A Novel
Helen Simonson - Random House
Format: Print book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community." - The Washington PostThe... |
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