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The Rosetta Key
by William Dietrich  Publisher Comments Surviving murderous thieves, a nerve-racking sea voyage, and the deadly sands of Egypt with Napoleon's army, American adventurer Ethan Gage solved a five-thousand-year-old riddle with the help of a mysterious medallion. But the danger is only beginning......
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Life Class
by Pat Barker Publisher Comments From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy, an acknowledged masterpiece of modern fiction, Life Class is an exceptional new novel of artists and lovers caught in the maelstrom of the Great War. It is the spring of 1914 and a...
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Sepulchre
by Kate Mosse Publisher Comments From the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Labyrinth comes another haunting tale of secrets, murder, and the occult set in both nineteenth-century and twenty-first-century France. In 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother Anatole...
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Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen Publisher Comments This new edition of the Austen classic features a new Introduction, updated notes, and new appendices on social rank and dancing in 19th-century England....
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Big Boned (Heather Wells Mysteries )
by Meg Cabot Publisher Comments Life is reasonably rosy for plus-size ex-pop star turned Assistant Dormitory Director and sometime sleuth Heather Wells. Her freeloading ex-con dad is finally moving out. She still yearns for her hot landlord, Cooper Cartwright, but her relationship with...
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The Second Objective
by Mark Frost Synopsis From the bestselling author of "The List of Seven" and "The Six Messiahs" comes this riveting World War II novel based on a shocking real-life German operation run by the most dangerous man in Europe....
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Sweet Love
by Sarah Strohmeyer Publisher Comments An irresistibly delicious novel about the power of loveand dessert. Like other well-meaning mothers, Julie Mueller's believed she did the right thing when she secretly ended her teenage daughter's crush on Michael Slayton, a wild older neighborhood...
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Diary of a Bad Year
by J. M. Coetzee Publisher Comments A new work of fiction by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace. In this brilliant new work of fiction, J. M. Coetzee once again breaks new literary ground with a book that is, in the words of its main character, "a response to the present in...
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The Abyssinian Proof: A Kamil Pasha Novel
by Jenny White Publisher Comments Nineteenth-century Istanbul thrills in this page-turner about a conspiracy to steal an ancient reliquary whose secret could change the world. The Ottoman Empire is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches that, within days, appear for...
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Death Be Not Proud (Perennial Classics)
by John Gunther Publisher Comments Plot Summary Death Be Not Proud chronicles Johnny Gunther's gallant struggle against the malignant brain tumor that killed him at the age of seventeen. The book opens with his father's fond, vivid portrait of his son - a young man of extraordinary...
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Beginner's Greek: A Novel
by James Collins Publisher Comments When Peter Russell finally meets the woman of his dreams he falls as madly in love as you can on a flight from New York to LA. Her name is Holly. She's achingly pretty with strawberry-blonde hair, and reads Thomas Mann for pleasure. She gives Peter her...
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Bleak House
by Charles Dickens Publisher Comments Penguin presents the companion book to the "Masterpiece Theatre" miniseries starring Gillian Anderson (T"he House of Mirth, The X-Files"). This stunning production features a screenplay written by Andrew Davies ("Bridget Jones's Diary"). Part romance...
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Wrack and Ruin
by Don Lee Publisher Comments An exhilarating comic satire with the quirky energy of The Wonder Boys and Sideways. Lyndon Song, a renowned sculptor, has fled New York City to become a Brussels sprouts farmer in the small California town of Rosarita Bay. Lyndon has a brother...
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The Used World
by Haven Kimmel Publisher Comments "It was mid-December in Jonah, Indiana, a place where Fate can be decided by the weather, and a storm was gathering overhead." So Haven Kimmel, bestselling author of A Girl Named Zippy, prepares us to enter The Used World -- a world where big hearts are...
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The Wild Places (Penguin Original)
by Robert Macfarlane Publisher Comments "An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature still holds sway over much of the earth's surface." Bill McKibben Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? That is the question...
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The Sun Over Breda (Captain Alatriste)
by Artur Perez Reverte Publisher Comments Acclaimed author Arturo Prez-Reverte's internationally bestselling series, the saga of the swordsman-for-hire Captain Alatriste, continues in The Sun Over Breda. Fifteen-year-old Iigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master's aide, and narrates their...
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Dead Souls (Vintage Classics)
by Nikolai Gogol Publisher Comments Ever since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tall tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and a remorseless satire of imperial Russian...
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New England White (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Stephen L Carter Publisher Comments The eagerly awaited, electrifying new novel from the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park ( Among the most remarkable fiction debuts in recent years . . . A rip-roaring entertainment -- The Boston Globe). When The Emperor of Ocean Park was published, Time...
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The Hidden Assassins
by Robert Wilson Publisher Comments As Inspector Jefe Javier Falc--n investigates the case of a faceless, mutilated corpse, the beautiful city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. The discovery of a mosque in the basement of a devastated apartment building confirms everybody's...
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Ask Again Later
by Jill A Davis Publisher Comments From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Girls Poker Night" comes the hilarious yet poignant story of a woman trying to resist the urge to live with one foot constantly out the door....
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