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The Art Forger: A Novel
B. A. Shapiro - Algonquin Books; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Almost twenty-five years after the infamous art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum -- still the largest unsolved art theft in history -- one of the stolen Degas paintings is delivered to the Boston studio of a young artist. Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with... |
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Best Intentions: A Novel
Erika Raskin - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Marti Trailor -- social worker on hold, mother of three, wife of a successful obstetrician, daughter of a Congressman -- is ready to go back to work. She's thrilled when the perfect opportunity falls in her lap. The catch? The job is at her husband's hospital and he seems not to share her enthusiasm.... |
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And West Is West
Ron Childress - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Format: Print book
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Winner of the prestigious PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, And West Is West is an inspired novel about two young people who learn, the hard way, about the devastating power of new technology to isolate us from the consequences of our actions. When Jessica, a young Air Force... |
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George and Lizzie: A Novel
NANCY PEARL - Touchstone Books
Format: Hardcover
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" A]n homage to true love, painful childhood experiences, and emotional scars that last a lifetime. It's a story of forgiveness, especially for one's self... . Extraordinary. " --The Washington Post From "America's librarian" and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes... |
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The Round House: A Novel
Louise Erdrich - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction.One of the most revered novelists of our time - a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life - Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting... |
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel
Maria Semple - Little
Format: Print book
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Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.Then Bernadette... |
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Kitchen house.
Kathleen Grissom - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"In 1790, Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant with the kitchen house slaves. Though she becomes deeply bonded to her new family, Lavinia is also slowly accepted into the world... |
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This Is How It Begins: A Novel
Joan Dempsey - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback
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WINNER, 2017 POETS & WRITERS MAUREEN EGEN WRITERS EXCHANGE AWARDIn 2009, eighty-five-year-old art professor Ludka Zeilonka gets drawn into a political firestorm when her grandson, Tommy, is among a group of gay Massachusetts teachers fired for allegedly silencing Christian kids in high... |
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The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Format: Paperback
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A beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition of this haunting American classic: a realistic and emotional novel about a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath."It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness... |
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A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Amor Towles - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"The book is like a salve. I think the world feels disordered right now. The count's refinement and genteel nature are exactly what we're longing for." - Ann Patchett"How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed novel stretches out with old-World... |
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Mrs. Osmond: A novel
John Banville - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, a dazzling and audacious new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected territory.Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late... |
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A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
Francine Prose - NYRB Classics
Format: Paperback
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Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story... |
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Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Ray Bradbury - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Ray Bradburys internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them... |
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Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestseller-WINNER OF ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD FOR NONFICTION-WINNER BLACK CAUCUS OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NAACP IMAGE AWARD BEST NONFICTION BOOK-WINNER NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE COMMUNICATION AWARDThe phenomenal... |
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Kate Moore - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts Bestseller! Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf Bookclub Selection - May/June 2018"the glowing ghosts of the radium girls haunt us still." -- NPR Books The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark... |
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Rocket Boys: A Memoir
Homer H Hickam - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my home town was at war with itself over its children, and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives. I didn't know that if a girl broke your heart, another girl,... |
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Kindred
Octavia E Butler
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Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. With more than 100,000 copies in print, Kindred is a classic timetravel novel by an acclaime |
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World... |
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