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Apr.21.2008
John Laroche is a sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing all his teeth, has the posture of al dente spaghetti and the nervous intensity of someone who wins a lot of video games. He is also an orchid thief, who, along with three Seminole Indians, was arrested with rare orchids...
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Apr.21.2008
In this powerful fiction debut, Therese Fowler combines the emotional resonance of Nicholas Sparks with the intense, true-to-life richness of Jodi Picoult to create a stunning and dramatic novel all her own.
Meg Powell and Carson McKay grew were raised side by side on their families’ farms, bonded...
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Apr.18.2008
Lily Kwok is the first Chinese woman to open a Chinese restaurant in Great Britain. Her granddaughter, Helen Tse is the third generation of women restaurateurs and the book Sweet Mandarin is named after her award winning restaurant. This family has been rocked by both international, social and...
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Mar.10.2008
A big, fresh, energetic, hyperrealistic, up-to-the-second comedy of manners set in Manhattan in 2000, Turn of the Century depicts marriage, family, friendship, and business as they are conducted at the giddy, anxious end of the millennium.
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Mar.10.2008
Heyday is a brilliantly imagined, wildly entertaining tale of America’s boisterous coming of age–a sweeping panorama of madcap rebellion and overnight fortunes, palaces and brothels, murder and revenge–as well as the story of a handful of unforgettable characters discovering the nature of freedom,...
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Mar.05.2008
The Enchantress of Florence is the story of a mysterious woman, a great beauty believed to possess the powers of enchantment and sorcery, attempting to command her own destiny in a man’s world. It is the story of two cities at the height of their powers–the hedonistic Mughal capital, in which the...
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Mar.05.2008
From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief, comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life.
In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents,...
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Feb.26.2008
They can't be real.
This is the world of fast food restaurants and childrens' meals with toys that become their own layer of landfill; this is the world of shopping malls and MTV Video Awards and People magazine's Sexiest Man of the Year; this is the world of bacteria and old people's homes and...
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Jan.25.2008
From the Jacket:
Finn takes us on a journey into the history and heart of one of American literature’s most brutal and mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn’s father. The result is a deeply original tour de force that springs from Twain’s classic novel but takes on a fully realized life of its own....
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Jan.11.2008
Readers familiar with Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will find what may be the secret ingredient of her success in this collection of tear- and laughter-provoking vignettes with seventy-three savory recipes. Here's Angelou's grandmother's Chicken and Dumplings, Crackling Corn Bread and...
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