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Seasoned with Grace by Nigeria LockleySentenced to probation, thirty-year-old supermodel Grace King performs her community service in the church where she meets Brother Horace Green, a man who must resist her or possibly lose his faith.
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The flicker men : a novel by Ted KosmatkaSeizing a three-month opportunity to revive his career, a mentally unstable physicist shocks the world by proving the existence of the human soul, igniting a firestorm debate between science and theology.
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Dogism saga by Mark AnthonyAfter successfully ending his cheating ways and fully devoting himself to his wife and son, Lance Thomas is again faced with temptation when a novel he writes becomes a best-seller, leaving him with time, money and idle hands.
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American ghost : a family's haunted past in the desert Southwest by Hannah NordhausIn a true story of pioneer women, immigrants, ghost hunters, psychics, frontier fortitude, mental illness, imagination and lore, the author takes us to a Sante Fe hotel where she traces the life, death and unsettled afterlife of her great-great-grandmother Julia, who haunts this elegant establishment.
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Where you go is not who you'll be : an antidote to the college admissions mania by Frank BruniThrough statistics, surveys and the stories of hugely successful people who didn't attend the most exclusive schools, a best-selling author andNew York Times columnist demonstrates that many kinds of colleges—from large public universities to tiny hideaways in the hinterlands—serve as ideal springboards into the professional world and argues that matters in the end are a student's efforts in and out of the classroom, not how prestigious a school he or she went to.
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Imperium : a fiction of the South Seas
by Christian Kracht
A satirical indictment of extremism follows the exploits of a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg who voyages to 1902's Bismarck Archipelago to establish a colony based on the worship of the sun and coconuts.
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The other son : a novel by Alexander SöderbergA follow-up to The Andalucian Friend finds Sophie Brinkmann using a family murder to plot a daring escape from comatose Hector Guzman's crime family, an effort that compels her to forge dubious alliances and tap darker aspects of her own nature.
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Open grave by Kjell ErikssonWhen pranks escalate into violence in the neighborhood of an unpopular Nobel Prize-winning professor, police inspector Ann Lindell's subsequent investigation reveals links to her own past.
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White crocodile by K. T. MedinaAfter her estranged husband goes missing while clearing minefields, Tess Hardy travels to Cambodia to search for him and uncover the truth, amidst tales of a mythical White Crocodile that kills everyone it meets.
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When the moon is low by Nadia HashimiWhen her happy middle-class life in Afghanistan is shattered by the rise of the Taliban and her husband's murder by fundamentalists, a former schoolteacher embarks on a life-risking effort to escape to England with her three children.
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