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Loving Frank
Loving Frank
by Nancy Horan
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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright... (read more)

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Power of One (89 Edition)
Power of One (89 Edition)
by Bryce Courtenay
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In this magical novel, an irresistible boy tells the story of his survival and coming of age against the background of South Africa during and just after World War II.... (read more)

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Woodsburner
Woodsburner
by John Pipkin
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Woodsburner springs from a little-known event in the life of one of America’s most iconic figures, Henry David Thoreau. On April 30, 1844, a year before he built his cabin on Walden Pond, Thoreau accidentally started a forest fire that destroyed... (read more)

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Lavinia
Lavinia
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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In The Aeneid, Vergil’s hero fights to claim the king’s daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes us to the half... (read more)

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Sunnyside
Sunnyside
by Glen David Gold
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A great American novel, Sunnyside contains multitudes. Glen David Gold follows his bestselling debut (Carter Beats the Devil) with an audaciously imagined history of Hollywood at the start of World War I, so unceasingly vibrant that even the book's... (read more)

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The Collector of Worlds: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton
The Collector of Worlds: A Novel of Sir Richard Francis Burton
by Iliya Troyanov
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A stunning fictionalized account of the infamous life of British colonial officer and translator Sir Richard Francis Burton This fictionalized account imagines the life of Sir Richard Francis Burton—a nineteenth-century British colonial officer... (read more)

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One in a Million
One in a Million
by Kimberla Lawson Roby
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A poignant and satisfying story of hope, Kimberla Lawson Roby's One in a Million beautifully shows us the difference between what we think we want and what we actually need to be truly happy. Kennedi Mason thinks she's the luckiest woman on earth. She... (read more)

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His Woman, His Wife, His Widow (Urban Christian)
His Woman, His Wife, His Widow (Urban Christian)
by Janice Jones
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A woman struggles between her commitment to God and her love for a drug dealer in this heart-wrenching journey through life, love, and death.... (read more)

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Arkansas
Arkansas
by John Brandon
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"Arkansas" is a biting first novel full of wet T-shirt contests, illicit drugs, and cross-country road trips. There are the days: the dappled grounds, the aimless yardwork, the hours in the booth giving directions to families in SUVs. And then there are... (read more)

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Stand the Storm
Stand the Storm
by Breena Clarke
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Even though former slaves Annie Coats and her son Gabriel have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice--to the extent that Annie secretly recalls her days on the plantation with fondness. Washington's... (read more)

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Let's Get It on
Let's Get It on
by Jill Nelson
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A spicy, raucously satiric follow-up to Jill Nelson's bestselling Sexual Healing In Let's Get It On, a group of savvy friends start what they couldn't find elsewhere--a full-service spa that caters to professional women. After opening a wildly successful... (read more)

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Sweeter Than Honey
Sweeter Than Honey
by Mary B Morrison
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The new blockbuster from the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "When Somebody Loves You Back" and "He's Just a Friend" follows one woman's search for a true relationship.... (read more)

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Have Mercy
Have Mercy
by Earl Sewell
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After his idyllic life is shattered, State Trooper Marshall Turner must learn how to find it in his heart to forgive the man who killed his daughter. Marshall Turner's life is a dream come true. He is married to a woman he passionately loves and who... (read more)

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Nazi Literature in the Americas
Nazi Literature in the Americas
by Roberto Bolano
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A playful and entirely original novel masquerading as a mini-encyclopedia of nonexistent Nazi literature in our hemisphere by Roberto Bolano: his generation's premier Latin-American writer (The New York Times). A tour de force of black humor and... (read more)

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Orlando: A Biography (Harvest Book, Hb 266)
Orlando: A Biography (Harvest Book, Hb 266)
by Virginia Woolf
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In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman... (read more)

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The Emigrants
The Emigrants
by W G Sebald
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This unique book is a visionary rendering of documentary-quality clarity and fictional skill. The Emigrants is strangely haunting, and bewitchingly beautiful. As you turn the pages you'll find yourself losing any sense of what is real and what is... (read more)

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A River Runs Through It
A River Runs Through It
by Norman Maclean
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From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing", to the last, "I am haunted by waters", A River Runs Through It is an American classic. Based on Norman Maclean's childhood experiences, A... (read more)

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Lies Will Take You Somewhere
Lies Will Take You Somewhere
by Sheila Schwartz
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In a voice reminiscent of Cynthia Ozick, this Jewish/Gothic novel renders the fracture and healing of the Rosen family. Jane Rosen leaves her three daughters and husband Saul, a rabbi, to care for her mother in Florida. In Jane's absence, Saul discovers... (read more)

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As a Driven Leaf (39 Edition)
As a Driven Leaf (39 Edition)
by Milton Steinberg
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The age of the Talmud is brought to life in a breathtaking saga. This masterpiece of modern fiction tells the gripping tale of renegade talmudic sage Elisha ben Abuyah's struggle to reconcile his faith with the allure of Hellenistic culture. Set in Roman... (read more)

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Out of Sight
Out of Sight
by Elmore Leonard
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Jack Foley was busting out of Florida's Glades Prison when he ran head-on into Karen Sisco with a shotgun. Suddenly the world-class gentleman felon was sharing a cramped car trunk with a disarmed federal marshal — whose Chanel suit cost more than... (read more)

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