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Vacationland
Meg Mitchell Moore
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"As sophisticated and delicious as lobster bisque." — Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author of The Lifeguards and The JetsettersLouisa has come to her parents' house in Maine this summer with all three of her kids, a barely-written book, and a trunkful of resentment. Left... |
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Flying Solo
Linda Holmes
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A woman returns to her small Maine hometown, uncovering family secrets that take her on a journey of self-discovery and new love, in this warm and charming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over.“Moving and tender . . . A perfect book for anyone who feels... |
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Jackie & Me
Louis Bayard
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“ABSOLUTELY IRRESISTIBLE.” —People In 1951, former debutante Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for a Washington newspaper. Her mission in life is “not to be a housewife,” but when she meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy at a Georgetown... |
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A Face to Die For
Iris Johansen
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Eve Duncan attempts to unearth one of history’s mostintriguing lost secrets in this adventure ripped from the pages of Greek mythology, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen.Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing... |
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Local Gone Missing
Fiona Barton
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Detective Elise King investigates a man’s disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds in this rich and captivating new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow. Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective—or she was before... |
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How to Fake It in Hollywood
Ava Wilder
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A talented Hollywood starlet and a reclusive A-lister enter into a fake relationship . . . and discover that their feelings might be more than a PR stunt in this sexy debut for fans of Beach Read and The Unhoneymooners.“A raw, character-driven, and heart-touching read . . . I absolutely... |
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And There He Kept Her
Joshua Moehling
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"A dark and complex mystery that will consume you."—Julie Clark, New York Times bestselling author of The Last FlightThey thought he was a helpless old man. They were wrong.When two teenagers break into a house on a remote lake in search of prescription drugs, what starts as a simple... |
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The Hotel Nantucket
Elin Hilderbrand
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"The queen of beach reads" (New York Magazine) delivers an immensely satisfying page-turner in this tale about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel.Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When... |
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Horse
Geraldine Brooks
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“Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review “Horse isn’t just an animal story—it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” —TIMEA discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse... |
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The Trees Endure
Joyce L. Kieffer
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In 1901, after three tumultuous years as a student nurse at Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses and a relationship with a doctor who stole her heart, Rebecca Wagner returns to her family farm and the disappearance of virgin forests surrounding rural McAlisterville, Pennsylvania.
However,... |
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Between Victory and Defeat
Subhankar Bhattacharyya
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Torn between the high Marxist ideals of the bygone days and the lures of an aggressively captivating market economy, Abhi, the protagonist, can keep his trust in none but himself. The novella is a political thriller that breathlessly narrates the inside story of the deteriorating student... |
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Her Private War
David Laws
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A woman of humble origins fights to overcome every obstacle to pilot a plane in World War I Britain, in a novel by the author of The Fuhrer's Orphans . . .
Being female means that Charlotte Dovedale's dreams are likely out of reach. Her mother is eager to support Charlotte's brother... |
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The Winter Murders
Jeffrey Birch
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Another Chance Colter murder mystery set in northern Minnesota where Chance extends his fishing trip stay to assist a young female Native American temporary sheriff upon the death of her sheriff uncle. |
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El espejo de Matsuyama
Juan Valera
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«Mucho tiempo ha vivían dos jóvenes esposos en lugar muy apartado y rústico. Tenían una hija y ambos la amaban de todo corazón. No diré los nombres de marido y mujer, que ya cayeron en olvido, pero diré que el sitio en que vivían se llamaba Matsuyama,... |
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Luisa de Bustamante
José María Blanco White
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José María Blanco White (1775-1841). España.Nació en Sevilla en 1775. Hijo del vicecónsul inglés Guillermo White. Fue canónico magistral en Cádiz y Sevilla y formó parte de la Academia de Letras Humanas (1793-1802). Tras una crisis espiritual marchó... |
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El periquillo Sarniento IV
José Joaquín Fernández Lizardi
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El Periquillo Sarniento is the first novel of entirely Latin American content. It was written in Mexico by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi in 1816. The book shows a marked neoclassical influence and moralizing pretensions. It tells the story of an old man who, in the face... |
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Los siete libros de la Diana
Jorge De Montemayor
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Los siete libros de la Diana is one of the first examples of pastoral poetry in Spain. It is distinguished by being written in a mixture of verse and prose and for combining various settings in the same story. Among others, it includes the pastoral atmosphere, the supernatural, urban, and even... |
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El hechicero
Juan Valera
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Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (Cabra, Córdoba, 1824-Madrid, 1905). España.Político y diplomático, fue un hombre culto y refinado, con numerosas aventuras amorosas y amistades literarias. |
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La fuerza de la sangre
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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La fuerza de la sangre tells the story of a young woman who is raped by a member of a noble family in Toledo. |
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