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Thirteen Moons
by Charles Frazier
Brilliantly imagined and written with great power and beauty by the author of "Cold Mountain, Thirteen Moons" is a stunning novel about a mans passion for a woman, and how loss, longing, and love can shape a mans destiny over the many moons of a life.
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April in Paris
by Michael Wallner
Written in an elegant and arresting style, this page-turner is a thrilling novel by a promising new writer, who has brought the reality of a war-torn past very much to the present.
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The Double Bind
by Chris Bohjalian
Working at a homeless shelter, student Laurel Estabrook encounters Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of secret photos, but when Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel embarks on an obsessive search for the truth behind the photos.
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History of Love
by Nicole Krauss
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's characters seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.
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Desperation Moon
by Ken Douglas
When racecar driver Sara Hackett arrives home from a desert road race, she finds her niece and another girl have been kidnapped and a dead man has turned up in her bed. The kidnappers want a million dollars she doesn't have or they say they'll kill the kids.
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The Life You Longed for
by Maribeth Fischer
In the spirit of bestselling authors Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve, award-winning writer Maribeth Fischer delivers a provocative and thrilling story about a devoted mother and the rumours - or are they truths? - that surround her.
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I'm Not Julia Roberts
by Laura Ruby
An insightful and witty collection of interconnected short fiction explores life after divorce in ten tales that deal with ex-wives, ex-husbands, children, and stepchildren, as it follows Lu Klein, her spouse's ex-wife Beatrix, Beatrix's new husband's daughter Liv, and Liv's mother Roxie, as they all deal with the complexities of a new blended family. A first collection.
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Innocent Traitor
by Alison Weir
A fictional portrait of Lady Jane Grey, the great-niece of Henry VIII, follows her turbulent life against the backdrop of Tudor power politics and religious upheaval, from her youth, to her nine-day reign as Queen of England, to its tragic aftermath.
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Still Life with Husband
by Lauren Fox
As searingly funny as it is searingly sad, Lauren Fox's first novel is a rare, unexpected, and even daring book"--Liam Callanan, author of "The Cloud Atlas."
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The Mermaid Chair
by Sue Monk Kidd
Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to tiny Egret Island, where she meets Brother Thomas, a monk who is about to take his final vows, and encounters the legend of a mysterious chair dedicated to a saint who had originally been a mermaid.
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The Best Place to be
by Lesley Dormen
Acclaimed author Dormen delivers a moving and hilarious collection of linked stories set in New York.
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The Savage Detectives
by Roberto Bolaño
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. A violent showdown in the Sonora desert turns search to flight; twenty years later Belano and Lima are still on the run. The explosive first long work by "the most exciting writer to come from south of the Rio Grande in a long time" (Ilan Stavans, Los Angeles Times), The Savage Detectives follows Belano and Lima through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa. This chorus includes the muses of visceral realism, the beautiful Font sisters; their father, an architect interned in a Mexico City asylum; a sensitive young follower of Octavio Paz; a foul-mouthed American graduate student; a French girl with a taste for the Marquis de Sade; the great-granddaughter of Leon Trotsky; a Chilean stowaway with a mystical gift for numbers; the anorexic heiress to a Mexican underwear empire; an Argentinian photojournalist in Angola; and assorted hangers-on, detractors, critics, lovers, employers, vagabonds, real-life literary figures, and random acquaintances. A polymathic descendant of Borges and Pynchon, Roberto Bolaño traces the hidden connection between literature and violence in a world where national boundaries are fluid and death lurks in the shadow of the avant-garde. The Savage Detectives is a dazzling original, the first great Latin American novel of the twenty-first century.
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Queen of Broken Hearts
by Cassandra King
The national bestselling author of The Same Sweet Girls and The Sunday Wife returns with another compulsively readable novel It's not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts. Just ask Clare, who has willingly assumed the mantle while her career as a divorce coach thrives. Now she's preparing to open a permanent home for the retreats she leads, on a slice of breathtaking property on the Alabama coast owned by her mother-in-law. Make that former mother-in-law, a colorful eccentric who teaches Clare much about love and sacrifice and living freely. When Clare's marriage ends in tragedy, her work becomes the sole focus of her life. While Clare has no problem helping the hundreds of men and women who seek her advice to mend their broken hearts, healing her own is another matter entirely. Falling in love again is the last thing she wants. So when Lex -- a charismatic, charming, burly sea captain -- moves to town to run the marina, Clare insists they remain friends and nothing more. But even though she fights it, she begins to fall for him -- and then finds she has a rival, his estranged wife Annalee. A story infused with all the flavors, textures, and intrigues of a small Southern town, with a rich, resonant center, Queen of Broken Hearts is a bold step forward for Cassandra King.
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Swimming Lessons
by Mary Alice Monroe
Set five years after the events in "The Beach House," Monroe revisits the Isle of Palms, as Toy Sooner plumbs the roots of her insecurities and fears and learns to release them at last and live fearlessly.
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Valentines
by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
From the acclaimed Icelandic author of Absolution, The Journey Home (now about to start filming under Liv Ullmann’s direction) and Walking into the Night: a haunting collection of thematically linked stories that encompasses the twelve months of a year, capturing the most candid moments between lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children–when truths and true feelings surge to the surface and everything changes. Olaf Olafsson’s fans will recognize the perfect restraint and precision–and quick wit–with which he characteristically explores these dark epiphanies, when the heart is suddenly laid bare, whether by love or betrayal, disenchantment or regret, or the shock of loss. While their settings range from the East Coast to the West Coast, from Paris to Slovenia and Iceland, these contemporary stories probe the complexity of modern relationships over time. A wife realizes her closest confidante is much more than that. A father tries to make his new lover into the image of his late wife. A lusty photographer confronts his own mortality. A couple’s long-anticipated anniversary vacation opens onto the past. A husband, a wife, a child, a boating accident: no harm done . . . and yet? Each of the twelve stories reveals another element in the agonizing nature of passion, diminished and yet sustained over time. This is a powerful work of fiction from one of our most gifted and subtle international writers at work today.
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Helpless
by Barbara Gowdy
In this haunting and suspenseful novel of abduction and obsessive love, Gowdy draws on her trademark empathy to create a portrait of love at its most consuming and ambiguous to uncover the volatile point at which desire gives way to the unthinkable.
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Portrait of an Unknown Woman
by Vanora Bennett
In an epic tale set against a backdrop of civil-war torn sixteenth-century Europe, portraitist Hans Holbein the Younger flees to the safety of Tudor England in order to escape artistic censorship.
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The Edge of Winter
by Luanne Rice
In her latest novel, a "New York Times" bestselling author takes readers on an emotional journey into the tender, untapped territory that lies between mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons.
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The Wayward Muse
by Elizabeth Hickey
Raised in the slums of Oxford, seventeen-year-old Jane Burden is discovered by the charismatic and irreverent painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with whom she falls madly in love before circumstances prompt her marriage to the shy craftsman William Morris.
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The Solitude of Thomas Cave
by Georgina Harding
In 1616, the crew of an English whaling ship prepares to sail home, except for Thomas Cave, who has accepted a wager from his shipmates--to endure a winter alone on an Arctic island--and prepares for months of solitude and harsh weather.
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The Welsh Girl
by Peter Ho Davies
At the height of World War II, a forbidden romance blossoms between seventeen-year-old Esther Evans, the daughter of a Welsh shepherd, and Karsten Simmering, a troubled young German POW, who questions what he has been fighting for.
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The Liar's Diary
by Patry Francis
Drawn to a vibrant newcomer who has been breaking hearts in their community, Jeanne Cross discovers that she and the woman share deep-seeted emotional needs, a commonality that turns deadly when her son is framed for murder.
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Be Mine
by Laura Kasischke
Experiencing a return of vitality and confidence while receiving love notes from a secret admirer, aimless wife and mother Sherry embarks on a passionate affair that spirals out of control and begins to threaten her son's well-being. By the author of The Life Before Her Eyes.