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Three Story House: A Novel

Courtney Miller Santo · William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition

Renovating an historic Memphis house together, three cousins discover that their spectacular failures in love, career, and family provide the foundation for their future happiness in this warm and poignant novel from the author of The Roots of the Olive Tree that is reminiscent of The Postmistress,...
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Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice

Curtis Sittenfeld · Random House
Pages: 492
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today.

This version of the Bennet family - and Mr. Darcy...
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Three Bargains: A Novel

Tania Malik · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A tale of fathers and sons, the ties that bind, and the barriers of class that even love cannot break, Three Bargains is a stunning first novel, as potent, heart-stopping, and epic as Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. By the banks of the River Yamuna in northern India, where rice paddies...
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Margaret truman's deadly medicine.

Margaret Truman · Forge
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Medicine meets murder in Margaret Truman's Deadly Medicine, the newest installment in the New York Times bestselling Capital Crimes series by Donald Bain

If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would...

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Her Secret, His Duty

Carla Cassidy · Harlequin
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Carla Cassidy writes about a scandal—and a passion—that could be front-page news…  When Debra Prentice discovers she's pregnant, she knows two things are true: that she can't wait to become a mother…and that she can never...
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Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels

Brian Michael Bendis · Watson-Guptill
Format: Book

Best-selling Marvel Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis reveals the comic book writing secrets behind his work on The Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man, All-New X-Men, and more.One of the most popular writers in modern comics, Brian Michael Bendis reveals the tools and techniques he and other...
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Scandalous Behavior

Stuart Woods · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Stone Barrington is back, in fine form, in the newest thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. After a series of nonstop adventures, Stone Barrington is eager for some peace and quiet in a rustic British setting. But no sooner does he land in England than he's beset...
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A Heap of Texas Trouble

Carolyn Brown · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

(Originally published as The Red-Hot Chili Cook-Off.)

One woman's quest for chili perfection
Carlene Lovell is going to hit her no-good, deadbeat, cheatin' ass, soon-to-be ex-husband where it hurts: at the annual chili cook-off, which he's won for 10 years in a row. To win,...

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Mary Anne Saves the Day: Full-Color Edition

Ann M Martin · Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, May 2015-
Pages: 160
Format: Print book

This graphic novel adapted by Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Times bestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, is now available in full color! When The Baby-Sitters Club gets into a huge fight, Mary Anne is left to her own devices. She has to eat by herself in the school...
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Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe

Chris Laoutaris · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The colorful story of the creation of the Globe Theatre -- as a result of the dramatic confrontation between Lady Elizabeth Russell and William Shakespeare. In November 1596, a woman signed a document that would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare . . . Who was this woman who played...
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Nothing Holds Back the Night: A Novel

Delphine de Vigan · Bloomsbury
Pages: 342
Format: Paperback

Only a teenager when Delphine was born, Lucile raised two daughters largely alone. She was a former child model from a Bohemian family, younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick, wayward and wonderful. But as Delphine grew up, Lucile's occasional sadness...
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Infinite Home: A Novel

Kathleen Alcott · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

"[E]xpect to find insights that make you stop, go back and read again.... Take it from us: You don't know what's coming in the last third of this book, and you will be astounded." - O, the Oprah MagazineA beautifully wrought story of an ad hoc family and the crisis they...
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The Onion Girl

Charles De Lint · Tor Books
Pages: 618
Format: Paperback

In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where a broad cast of extraordinary and affecting people work to keep the whole...
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