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1061) Thomas Murphy: A Novel
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The acclaimed, award-winning essayist and memoirist returns to fiction with this reflective, bittersweet tale that introduces the irrepressible aging poet Thomas Murphy-a paean to the mystery, tragedy and wonder of life. Trying his best to weasel out of an appointment with the neurologist his only child, Máire, has cornered him into, the poet Thomas Murphy-singer of the oldies, friend of the down-and-out, card sharp, raconteur, piano bar player,...
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With Black Narcissus, her novel of five nuns in a remote Himalayan convent struggling against nature-both physical and human-Rumer Godden established her impeccable literary reputation. Having spent her formative years in colonial India, she would continue to return to that setting for inspiration in several subsequent novels. Black Narcissus: Led by Sister Clodagh, the youngest Mother Superior in the history of their order, the European Sisters of...
1063) The Overlanders
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Based on a true story
The Overlanders is a bittersweet, sometimes comical look at the lives and loves in the world of a droving team in the Australian Outback. Their trials and tribulations and the hardships they endured in the harsh desert country they inhabited. The dangers they faced from their enemies and elements alike. It also tells the story of the women they left behind time and time again to fend for themselves. Sometimes for months...
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Young genius fakes suicide to escape a life of exploitation by an insidious mother and sadly ends up with the same circumstances in his new life. Supremely gifted Brandon Blakely, genius with an IQ of 220 highest known on worlds record is turned over for scientific research and stem cell study. Cursed to a life of selfishness and tyranny by his parents. With fame and fortune more precious than the happiness of their only child, and will stop at nothing...
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In a world plagued by death, disease, and suffering, many ask why a loving God would allow this to happen. In Divine Dilemma, a poignant scriptural guide filled with personal testimonies, author Ken Ham offers hope and peace to grieving families and bewildered communities, strengthening their faith during life's darkest days.
For believers, reconciling this reality of suffering with the teachings of a compassionate Creator raises difficult questions....
1066) Crossfire
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Crossfire
Textile magnate and CEO Peyton Scott-Baird travels to Savannah in the hope of securing an agreement to realize her life-long dream of manufacturing personal protective wear. The last person she expected to meet with is her closest childhood friend-one she had not seen or heard from in seventeen years-following a tragic accident that claimed the lives of their loved ones.
For ex-Army Ranger Connor Gallagher, the reunion with his teenage...
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God Has Something Great in Store for You!
"We know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." ROMANS 8:28
You've heard that "all things work together for good" countless times. So why do you still feel so unfulfilled?
Taken in its full context, Romans 8:28 contains a beautiful promise for you. The key to making this real, is to love God and live life according to...
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It's an explosive story of a broken trusted love placed in a man who truly didn't deserve it and couldn't appreciate the just values of a strong woman's worth.
Bessie's history with her husband, Jack, soon becomes a part of her past that she finds to be hard to place behind her. She goes against her own rules as a woman and becomes disloyal to her heart when it comes to standing by her man Jack.
In the midst of Jack's distrust and cheating ways,...
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In 1963, Noel Perrin, a 35-year-old professor of English at Dartmouth College, bought an 85-acre farm in Thetford Center, Vermont. For the next forty years he spent half his time teaching, half writing, and half farming. "That this adds up to three halves I am all too aware," he said, sounding a characteristic, self-deprecating note of bittersweet amusement at the chalk on his coat, the sweat on his brow, and the mud (and worse) on his boots.
"I...
1070) Youth
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Youth (1857) is a novel by Leo Tolstoy. Published at the beginning of his career as a leading Russian author of his generation, Youth is the third in a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels tracing Nikolenka's journey from innocence to experience. As a record of the past, a nostalgic reminder of a lost world, Youth is one of Tolstoy's most personal works, and yet his prose shows signs of the universal religious and philosophical themes that would...
1071) Boyhood
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Boyhood (1854) is a novel by Leo Tolstoy. Published at the beginning of his career as a leading Russian author of his generation, Boyhood is the second in a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels tracing Nikolenka's journey from innocence to experience. As a record of the past, a nostalgic reminder of a lost world, Boyhood is one of Tolstoy's most personal works, and yet his prose shows signs of the universal religious and philosophical themes that...
1072) The apartment: a novel
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"A memorable ensemble cast of four young women share a beautiful loft apartment in New York City's Hell's Kitchen and experience the glamour and challenges of city life, love and career in this irresistible contemporary story. Four young women's lives intersect in the apartment they've shared in Hell's Kitchen: Claire, a shoe designer; Abby, an aspiring novelist; Morgan, a successful financial consultant; and Sasha, a resident in obstetrics. As different...
1073) The redeemed
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West Country trilogy volume 3
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"It is 1916. The world has gone to war, and young Leo Sercombe, hauling coal aboard the HMS Queen Mary, is a long way from home. The wild, unchanging West Country roads of his boyhood seem very far away from life aboard a battlecruiser. Skimming through those West Country roads on her motorcycle, Lottie Prideaux defies the expectations of her class and sex as she covertly studies to be a vet. In a world torn asunder by war, everything dances in flux:...
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Moments of Glad Grace is a moving and witty memoir of aging, familial love, and the hunt for roots and belonging. The story begins as a trip from Canada to Ireland in search of genealogical data and documents. Being 80 and in the early stages of Parkinson's Disease, Joe invites his daughter Alison to come along as his research assistant, which might have worked very well had she any interest - any at all - in genealogy.
Very quickly, the father-daughter...
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Viking
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[2021]
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"The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other-- As Baby Boomers became teenagers in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old...
1077) The Astral: A Novel
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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2011
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From the PEN/Faulkner Award–winning author of The Great Man, a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn.
The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home (or so he thought) of the poet Harry Quirk and his wife, Luz, a nurse, and of their two children: Karina, now...
The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home (or so he thought) of the poet Harry Quirk and his wife, Luz, a nurse, and of their two children: Karina, now...
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What was it like to be an advertising woman on Madison Avenue in the 60s and 70s - that Mad Men era of casual sex and professional serfdom? A real-life Peggy Olson reveals it all in this immensely entertaining and bittersweet memoir.
Mad Women is a tell-all account of life in the New York advertising world by Jane Maas, a copywriter who succeeded in the primarily male jungle depicted in the hit show Mad Men.
Fans of the show are dying to know how...
1079) Waterloo: A Novel
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"You're in a slump."
Nick Lasseter's boss is talking about his job performance as a reporter for the Waterloo Weekly-but he might as well be talking about Nick's whole life. His current assignment, a profile of a legendary, liberal ex-congressman, is in trouble even before his subject abruptly dies. His sexy girlfriend has spurned him in favor of a muffin magnate. His uncle, a booze-fueled political operative, has decided to crash on Nick's couch...
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"[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today." -Susan Sontag
From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings: a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical essays and a new, long-form piece about the devastation and beauty of early love. James Wolcott, contributing writer to Vanity Fair, calls Terry Castle a "Jedi...
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