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Trouble : a novel
By Kate Christensen.
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A vibrant story of female friendship and midlife sexual awakening from the acclaimed author of "The Great Man," winner of the 2008 PEN/Faulker Award. Josie is a Manhattan psychotherapist living a comfortable life with her husband and daughter--until she is struck with the sudden realization that she must leave her passionless marriage. At the same ...
2009; 311 p.; isbn:0385527306 More Information |
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Brodeck : a novel
Philippe Claudel ; translated from the French by John Cullen
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Reminiscent of the works of Franz Kafka and J.M. Coetzee, this mesmerizing novel offers a powerful and moving exploration of a stranger who incites frenzy in a complacent town by exposing the dark secrets the villagers desire to keep hidden.
2009; 313 p.; isbn:9780385527248 More Information |
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A gift of grace
Amy Clipston.
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When Rebecca Kauffman's sister Grace, who left the Amish behind years earlier, is killed in an accident, it is up to Rebecca and her husband Daniel to raise Grace's two teenage English daughters in their Old Order Amish community.
2009; 323 p.; isbn:0310289831 More Information |
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L.A. Candy
Lauren Conrad.
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When nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts is cast in a new reality show, she discovers that the fame and fortune of her new life come at a high price to herself and her friendships.
2009; 326 p.; isbn:0061767581 More Information |
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The fate of Katherine Carr
Thomas H. Cook.
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Shattered by the unsolved murder of his eight-year-old son, travel writer George Gates is approached by a retired missing-persons detective and given a mysterious story left behind by a woman who disappeared twenty years earlier.
2009; 276 p.; isbn:0151014019 More Information |
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Knockout
Catherine Coulter
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FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are back in this electrifying thriller as they attempt to keep Autumn Backman, a seven-year-old telepath, from falling into the hands of her uncle and his growing army of exploited children
2009; 417 p.; isbn:9780399155840 More Information |
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Everything matters!
Ron Currie, Jr.
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In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in 36 years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter?
2009; 305 p.; isbn:0670020923 More Information |
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A secret alchemy : a novel
Emma Darwin.
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Darwin tells the exhilarating story of the two youngest victims of the Wars of the Roses, as told through the voices of their mother, the beautiful widow of King Edward IV, and the present-day historian who unlocks the long-buried secrets of their deaths.
2009; 407 p.; isbn:0061714720 More Information |
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A breed apart
Pierre Davis
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A dog with extraordinary abilities goes missing and two men are sent to retrieve her. One is a detective in need of redemption, the other is a hired assassin. Their paths soon meet during their search, in this innovative, science-based thriller. Original.
2009; 433 p.; isbn:9780440245087 More Information |
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The idea of love
Louise Dean.
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Richard, a pharmaceutical salesman, is assigned to introduce antidepressants into Africa. Rachel finds herself Africa-bound too, in search of a little brother or sister for her daughter. For both Richard and Rachel, the excursions will lead them into their own private heart of darkness.
2009; 318 p.; isbn:0151013853 More Information |
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Roadside crosses : a Kathryn Dance novel
Jeffery Deaver.
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In the latest addition to the Kathryn Dance series, Deaver tells the chilling tale of a vigilante seeking revenge--in both the cyber world and the real one.
2009; 399 p.; isbn:1416549994 More Information |
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The King James conspiracy
Phillip DePoy.
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Deacon Marbury is in charge of a group of scholars who are translating a new version of the Bible, but when several of them are murdered, the deacon suspects that the desire to protect secrets from Christianity's early history is the motive behind the killings.
2009; 374 p.; isbn:0312377134 More Information |
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