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Suite Francaise: A Novel
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Suite Francaise: A Novel
by Irene Nemirovsky

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A literary time capsule, Suite Française is a novel about wartime occupation written during the Nazi occupation of France. Irène Némirovsky's unfinished manuscript has been published more than 60 years after her death to worldwide...
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Harvest Book)
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Harvest Book)
by Audrey Niffenegger

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"Inspired by her grandparents' love story in which the grandmother outlived her husband by nearly three decades, Niffenegger has invented Henry and Clare, and their unique and complicated love story involving the ability to live in the past and future in...
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Empire of Ashes: A Novel of Alexander the Great
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Empire of Ashes: A Novel of Alexander the Great
by Nicholas Nicastro

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323 B.C. The great Alexander is dead. Machon-the late emperor's renowned friend and ally-is being scapegoated for his downfall. An outsider on trial for his life, Machon will tell his Greek accusers the stunning, tragic truth behind the meteoric rise and...
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Lolita
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov

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Awe and exhiliration — along with heartbreak and mordant wit — abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet...
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The Three Incestuous Sisters: An Illustrated Novel
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The Three Incestuous Sisters: An Illustrated Novel
by Audrey Niffenegger

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This is the book we are all talking about! Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife channels Edward Gorey and Charlotte Bronte in this lavish and astonishing work of art. Recommended by Veronica, Powells.com...
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Suite Francaise: A Novel
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Suite Francaise: A Novel
by Irene Nemirovsky

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By the early l940s, when Ukranian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française — the first two parts of a planned five-part novel — she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a...
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi

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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged...
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Ahab's Wife (P.S.)
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Ahab's Wife (P.S.)
by Sena Jeter Naslund

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From the opening line — "Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last" — you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena...
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Henry and June: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary (1931-1932) of Anais Nin
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Henry and June: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary (1931-1932) of Anais Nin
by Anais Nin

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This series of journal entries documents Anais Nin's love affair with Henry Miller and his wife June from 1931 to 1932. It would prove to be one of the more sexually adventurous periods of Nin's life. With her poetic voice and ability to use the diary as...
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The Long Walk Home
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The Long Walk Home
by Will North

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The miracle of love after loss and longing The Long Walk Home is a story about grief and hope, about love and loss, and about two people struggling with the agonizing complexities of fidelity–to a spouse, to a moral code, to each other, and...
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Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette (P.S.)
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Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette (P.S.)
by Sena Jeter Naslund

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"Like everyone, I am born naked." With this opening line of Naslund's compelling new novel, a very human Marie Antoinette invites readers to live her story as she herself experiences it. From the lush gardens of Versailles to the lights and gaiety of...
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A House for Mr. Biswas
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A House for Mr. Biswas
by V S Naipaul

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In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he...
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Fire in the Blood: A Novel
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Fire in the Blood: A Novel
by Irene Nemirovsky

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We are lucky to have another novel from Irene Nemirovsky. Although the book is short, the emotional impact is lasting. Fire in the Blood is a luminescent novel of love and loss. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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David Golder, the Ball, Snow in Autumn, the Courilof Affair
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David Golder, the Ball, Snow in Autumn, the Courilof Affair
by Irene Nemirovsky

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Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Némirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Française. But Suite Française was only the coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten...
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Mama Day (Vintage Contemporaries)
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Mama Day (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Gloria Naylor

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On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces. A powerful generational saga at once tender and...
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The Legend of Mickey Tussler
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The Legend of Mickey Tussler
by Frank Nappi

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Seventeen-year-old Mickey Tussler is recruited to play for a minor league affiliate of the Boston Braves. Arthur Murphy swears Mickey has the greatest arm he has ever seen, that anybody has ever seen.  And it...
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Half a Life
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Half a Life
by V S Naipaul

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In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin...
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The Women of Brewster Place
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The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor

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The women of Brewster Place are "hard-edged, soft-centered, brutally demanding, and easily pleased". In their stories, Gloria Naylor has created a community of women that has touched thousands of readers across the country. Now the basis for a November...
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Mary
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Mary
by Janis Cooke Newman

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**DEBUT FICTION** Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history’s most misunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president’s wife to be called First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a mother who survived...
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Things I Want My Daughters to Know
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Things I Want My Daughters to Know
by Elizabeth Noble

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How do you cope in a world without your mother? When Barbara realizes time is running out, she writes letters to her four daughters, aware that they'll be facing the trials and triumphs of life without her at their side. But how can she leave them when...
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