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Beatrice and Benedick
by Marina Fiorato
A tale set a year before the events of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing imagines the first youthful encounters between famous lovers Beatrice and Benedick to consider their original romance and bitter breakup. By the best-selling author of The Glassblower of Murano.
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Fates and traitors : a novel of John Wilkes Booth
by Jennifer Chiaverini
A reimagining of the life of Lincoln's assassin by the best-selling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker describes Booth's tumultuous childhood on a Maryland farm and rise to the ballrooms of D.C. at the sides of four women before he became obsessed with avenging the Confederacy.
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The golem and the jinni : a novel
by Helene Wecker
Combining elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology, this stunning debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures, Chava, a golem brought to life by a disgraced rabbi, and Ahmad, a jinni made of fire, who form an unlikely friendship on the streets of New York until a fateful choice changes everything. 75,000 first printing.
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The Japanese lover : a novel
by Isabel Allende
A multigenerational epic by the New York Times best-selling author of The House of the Spirits follows the impossible romance between a World War II escapee from the Nazis and a Japanese gardener's son, whose story is discovered decades later by a care worker who would come to terms with her past.
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News of the world : a novel
by Paulette Jiles
A live news reader traveling the antebellum south is offered $50 to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, back to her family in San Antonio in this new novel from the author of Enemy Women. 50,000 first printing.
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Roadside picnic
by Arkadiĭ Strugatskiĭ
"Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of the extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a "full empty," something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he'll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems."
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Sacred hunger
by Barry Unsworth
En route to America with a cargo of African slaves, the crew of the Liverpool Merchant, enraged at the captain's impotence in the face of disease, carry out a mutiny that pits two cousins against each other
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The silver pigs : a Marcus Didius Falco mystery
by Lindsey Davis
Marcus Didius Falco finds himself in the midst of ancient Roman intrigue when he accepts a case from the beautiful Sosia Camillina, one that mushrooms into a plot to depose the emperor
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The plover : a novel
by Brian Doyle
Voyaging into the Pacific to escape his troubled life in Oregon, Declan O'Donnell bonds with his crewmates and learns of their own respective quests for self, exchanges that lead to a shared celebration of life's unexpected paths. 50,000 first printing.
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Wolf Hollow : a novel
by Lauren Wolk
Growing up in a rural Pennsylvania town in the aftermath of two world wars, 12-year-old Annabelle confronts a bullying newcomer and must defend a traumatized but gentle World War I veteran who is wrongly implicated in the bully's disappearance. Simultaneous eBook.
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Do no harm : stories of life, death, and brain surgery
by Henry Marsh
Offering a rare glimpse into the life and work of a modern neurosurgeon, an international best-seller provides unforgettable insight into the countless human dramas that take place in a busy modern hospital and the agonizing decisions that must be made, often in the face of great urgency and uncertainty.
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The glass castle : a memoir
by Jeannette Walls
The second child of a scholarly, alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing from the Arizona desert, to Las Vegas, to an Appalachian mining town, during which her siblings and she fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities. 40,000 first printing.
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Prague winter : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948
by Madeleine Korbel Albright
Set against the backdrop of occupied Czechoslovakia and World War II, a former secretary of state paints a vivid portrait of her early life from 1937 to 1948 during which she witnessed the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Holocaust, the defeat of fascism, the rise of communism and the onset of the Cold War. 150,000 first printing.
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The warmth of other suns : the epic story of America's great migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
In an epic history covering the period from the end of World War I through the 1970s, a Pulitzer Prize winner chronicles the decades-long migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West through the stories of three individuals and their families. 75,000 first printing.
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Refuge : an unnatural history of family and place
by Terry Tempest Williams
The author of Leap describes her Mormon upbringing, juxtaposing these reminiscences with discussions of the flooding of a wildlife bird sanctuary and its effect on that ecosystem, and her family's legacy of cancer. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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West with the night
by Beryl Markham
Beryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen... When Hemingway read Markham's book, he wrote to his editor, Maxwell Perkins: "She has written so well, and marvelously well, that I was completely ashamed of myself as a writer . . . [She] can write rings around all of us who consider ourselves as writers . . . It is really a bloody wonderful book." ~ MacMillan Publishers
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Intouchables
A young man from the projects and just out of prison is hired by a French millionaire quadriplegic to be his caretaker, beginning an unlikely friendship between the two men
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Lars and the real girl
When a painfully shy young man introduces a life-size doll as his girlfriend, his family and neighbors play along to make him happy
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Race /
The story of track and field legend Jesse Owens, and his record-breaking performance at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany
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