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Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored TextFrom the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, his first--and funniest--novel.Amerika tells the story of the young Karl Rossmann who, after an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America....
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Train to Pakistan"In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people--Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs--were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was...
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The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of GhostsWhen Amos Tutuola's first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest. Drawing on the West African Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm-wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure. Since then, The Palm-Wine...
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Yesterday's TidesIn 1942, Evie Farrow is used to life on Ocracoke Island, where every day is the same--until the German U-boats haunting their waters begin to wreak havoc. And when special agent Sterling Bertrand is washed ashore at Evie's inn, her life is turned upside...
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Black DoveA deeply imaginative and thrilling novel about grief, single parenting, and the terrifying power of a child's imagination, dancing on an edge between magical realism and horror, perfect for fans of Stranger Things In a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy...
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To Be or Not to Be: A Chooseable-Path AdventureFrom the bestelling author of Romeo and/or Juliet and How to Invent Everything, the greatest work in English literature, now in the greatest format of English literature: a chooseable-path adventure When Shakespeare wrote Hamlet he gave the world just one possible storyline, drawn from...
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PninReaders meet one of Nabokov's funniest and most heartrending characters: Timofey Pnin, a professor of Russian at an American college, who lectures in a language he cannot master.Author: Vladimir NabokovPublisher: VintagePublished: 06/18/1989Pages: 191Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70dISBN: 9780679723417Review Citation(s): Entertainment...
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Star Wars Episode I the Phantom MenaceA galaxy is threatened. A young Jedi is discovered. A dormant evil rises again, New truths are found. Bestselling author Patricia C. Wrede brings to life the epic story of "Star Wars: Episode I," in a stunning novel sure to captivate legions of readers.Author:...
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A Great DeliveranceTo this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of...
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The EditorFrom the bestselling author of The Guncle and Lily and the Octopus comes a novel about a struggling writer who gets his big break, with a little help from the most famous woman in America. After years of trying to make it as a...
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The Forbidden Door: A Jane Hawk NovelNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - When this relentless rogue FBI agent comes knocking, her adversaries will have to answer--with their lives--in this thrilling Jane Hawk novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Corner."Koontz continues the incredible saga of the...
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Dark WitchFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a trilogy about the land we're drawn to, the family we learn to cherish, and the people we long to love... Book One of The Cousins O'Dwyer TrilogyDark Witch With indifferent parents, Iona Sheehan...
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This Side of ParadiseTHE ACCOMPLISHED AND HEARTBREAKING FIRST NOVEL THAT CATAPULTED F. SCOTT FITZGERALD TO LITERARY FAME AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE Considered scandalous (and brilliant) when it was published in 1920, This Side of Paradise describes the intellectual, spiritual, and sexual education of young Amory Blaine...
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Angel FallsFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Four Winds, Angel Falls is "a tearjerker . . . about the triumphs of family" (Detroit Free Press).When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband,...
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RushIn the first novel in the Breathless trilogy, a man is about to have his fantasies come true with a woman who was once forbidden fruit, and is now ripe for the picking... When Gabe Hamilton saw Mia Crestwell walk into the ballroom for...
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Extreme PreyAn extraordinary Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation--no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just...
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So Far from GodSofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love in the sleepy New Mexico hamlet of Tome, a town teeming with marvels where the comic and the horrific, the real and the supernatural, reside.Author: Ana CastilloPublisher: W....
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The Lost WifeFrom one of our most compelling and sensual writers comes a searing, immersive novel about a seminal and shameful moment in America's conquest of the West. Drawing partly from a true story, it brings to life a devastating Native American revolt and the woman...
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IliumThe Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars -- observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family -- and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful...
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The Song of the LarkIn this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines. Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider world. But as her path...
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