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World of Mirrors is set on an island off the Baltic coast in the former DDR, and the year is 1990, the “time of the turn.” The Berlin wall has crumbled, but Germany...
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Private Investigator Karl Kane returns to the streets of Belfast investigating the discovery of a severed hand. Karl believes it's the work of an elusive serial...
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Private Investigator Karl Kane returns to the streets of Belfast investigating the discovery of a severed hand. Karl believes it's the work of an elusive serial...
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Private Investigator Karl Kane returns to the streets of Belfast investigating the discovery of a severed hand. Karl believes it's the work of an elusive serial...
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The Light Bearer is a richly embroidered tale of war, vengeance and spiritual transcendence set in ancient Rome and northern Europe in the first century AD....
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Mud Hut Man
It’s 1079 AD and fourteen-year-old Ulf, son of a dung shoveler, lives in a hut in the shadow of the walls of Litchfield Castle. Their hut is but one of hundreds...
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Through intertwined short stories, 98 Wounds dissects the inexorable dualities present in every moment that matters: pleasure and pain, contentment and longing,...
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Venus on Mars
Summer 1971. A lone spacecraft is on its way to Mars; meanwhile Venus heads toward Pasadena – and back to her job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where...
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“A cup or two of Joe every day is a good way to boost mood, energy and overall health.” --Julian Whitaker, M.D., founder of the Whitaker Wellness Institute Wake Up...
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For One Who Knows How to Own Land
I grew up in two worlds: my father’s parents’ world of brick homes, city streets, shopping, and playgrounds; and my mother’s parents’ world of dirt roads,...
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Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published...
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In his book, “A Prayer for the Departed: Tales of a Family through the Decades of the Last Century” (ISBN 1461138930), Bill Broder honors the elders of his family...
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After five years cancer-free, April Newton should be celebrating, but instead she’s suffering. She feels her husband slipping away, and though the spectacular...
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New Buffalo
New Buffalo was one of the most successful of the collective farms that dotted the country in the 1960s and 1970s. Arthur Kopecky's journals take us back to that...
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A SEAL in WOLF'S CLOTHING
  Meara Greymere is in charge of the cabin rentals on the rugged Oregon coastline, so her brother and his mate could take...
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Whackers: An Original Screenplay
A law clerk's blind passion for a beautiful, mysterious lawyer puts him on the fast track to hell when a glib n' greedy hit man hires himself to whack the lawyer's...
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Lost Kingdom, forthcoming from Atlantic Monthly Press in January, 2012
Julia Flynn Siler, in her first book since the New York Times bestselling The House of Mondavi,  takes readers on a tour through the fascinating history of...
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The Little Russian
The Little Russian tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow –a life filled with salons...
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Collective Brightness
Poetry. LGBT Studies. The first anthology of its kind, with poets representing several countries (the United States, Singapore, Korea, Australia, the United...
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In the Service of Samurai 2011
The choice: Serve the undead or become one of them. Toshi never expected the strange visitor who one evening stepped foot inside his master's shop. A samurai...
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