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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
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The most talked about — and praised — first novel of 2007, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who, from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister,... (read more)

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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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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
by Jeannette Walls
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Lily Casey Smith is a woman who won't take no for an answer if there's any way around it. She embarks on journeys and has experiences that only someone with iron-willed character could survive: As a child, she gets her young siblings up a cottonwood tree... (read more)

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Lavinia
Lavinia
by Ursula 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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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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Skin Game
Skin Game
by Lawrence Ross
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From the author of "Friends with Benefits" comes a fast-paced, gritty tale, in which a smart, gorgeous college student overcomes dangerous obstacles when she becomes a stripper in order to pay her way through school.... (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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Sinners Never Sleep (Urban Soul)
Sinners Never Sleep (Urban Soul)
by Leigh Mcknight
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In this powerful continuation of "From My Front Porch," a family crisis sends a woman back to her hometown, where she is forced to choose between her life in a big city and her former lover, who wants her back. Original.... (read more)

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Table for Three (Urban Soul)
Table for Three (Urban Soul)
by Recha G. Peay
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Peay presents the inspiring, life-affirming story of three very different women who share a weekly dinner that strengthens their friendship and feeds their souls. Original.... (read more)

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Museum of Human Beings
Museum of Human Beings
by Colin Sargent
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From deprivation in the wilderness to the lavish courts of European nobility, this poignant historical novel explores the life and quest of Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of Sacagawea. After the famed Lewis and Clark expedition and the death of his... (read more)

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Thug Lovin'
Thug Lovin'
by Wahida Clark
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Tasha and Trae, the hood's favorite couple, are still together following the events of Thug Matrimony. Even with their relocation to sunny Los Angeles, the drama of New York cannot be escaped. From running a nightclub to dealing with models, shady... (read more)

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Quarry in the Middle
Quarry in the Middle
by Max Allan Collins
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The sequel to "The First Quarry" and "The Last Quarry." When a pair of warring crime families each hires the same hit man to knock off the other, the man in the middle finds himself in a very dangerous spot. Original.... (read more)

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Chosen
Chosen
by Patricia Haley
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The inspirational first novel from #1 Essence bestselling author Patricia Haley's series based on the popular biblical kings David and Solomon After Dave Mitchell abandoned his wife and business partner, Madeline, and their four children for a younger... (read more)

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Is It Good for the Jews?: More Stories from the Old Country and the New
Is It Good for the Jews?: More Stories from the Old Country and the New
by Adam Biro
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Jewish stories, writes Adam Biro, resemble every people's stories. Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, history, millennial suffering, or, crucially, the joys of the Jewish people than through such tales--There's nothing... (read more)

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Redemption Lake (Urban Christian)
Redemption Lake (Urban Christian)
by Monique Miller
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The final inspiring novel in Miller's trilogy follows three couples as they travel on the road to mending and rebuilding their torn relationships. Lives will forever be changed, but can they really forgive and forget?... (read more)

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Immortal
Immortal
by Erica Barnes
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In the bestselling tradition of Nikki Turner, Barnes delivers a gripping page-turner about a street thug who is determined to turn his life around.... (read more)

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A Change Had to Come
A Change Had to Come
by Gwynne Forster
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From the award-winning, bestselling author of "A Different Kind of Blues, Getting Some of Her Own," and "When You Dance With the Devil" comes a compelling, unforgettable story about a woman's journey to believing in herself.... (read more)

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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
I Am Not Sidney Poitier
by Percival Everett
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An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the... (read more)

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Hinds' Feet on High Places (Deluxe Christian Classics)
Hinds' Feet on High Places (Deluxe Christian Classics)
by Hannah Hurnard
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Hannah Hurnard created the story of Much Afraid, a young girl hoping to travel from the Valley of Humiliation to the High Places. Along the way, she meets a number of memorable characters - including the Family of Fearings, Cousin Pride, Mrs. Valiant... (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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