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Tales of the city volume 8
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Following the success of "Michael Tolliver Lives", come a poignant new chapter in the Tales of the City series that shines a spotlight on the woman at the center of Armistead Maupin's beloved fictional universe - Mary Ann Singleton. Print run 100,000.
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2019: Julianne is preparing a family dinner, when her son comes to her and says he's found something on his iPad. Something so terrible, it will turn Julianne's world into a nightmare and make her question everything about her marriage and what type of man her husband is or is pretending to be. 1990: Holly is a fresher student at Oxford University. Out of her depth and nervous about her surroundings, she falls into an uneasy friendship with a group...
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At twenty-one, Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Nathan, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced Christian mother and Jewish father. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up in a gas station mini-mart and falling in love with a great wall of a man named William Ashe, who willingly steps between the armed robber and her son....
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The Olanders embody a modern family in a globalized world. Jaya and Keith's strong marriage is built on shared beliefs and love for their two children: headstrong teenager Karina and young son Prem. But love and prosperity cannot protect them from sudden, unspeakable tragedy, and the family's foundation cracks as each member struggles to seek a way forward. This is an intimate portrayal of four individuals as they grapple with what it means to be...
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When Annie Harlow awakes from a year-long coma, she discovers that time isn't the only thing she's lost. Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont. There, Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind years ago: the town where she grew up, the people she knew before, the high-school boyfriend turned ex-cop. And with the discovery of a cookbook her grandmother wrote in the distant past, Annie unearths an...
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Robert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of Antarctic surveying, was there on the ice when the worst happened. He holds within him the complete story of that night - but depleted by the disaster, Wright is no longer able to communicate the truth. Instead, in the wake of the catastrophic expedition, he faces the most daunting adventure of his life: learning a whole new way to be in the world. Meanwhile Anna, his wife, must suddenly scramble to navigate the sharp...
10) Smoke: a novel
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Smoke volume 1
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Taking place in England a century ago, here the sinful are marked by Smoke, a sign of their fallen state. Three friends are about to discover that everything they've been taught about Smoke is a lie. And so, their adventure begins. This is the world of Smoke, a narrative tour de force, a tale of Dickensian intricacy and ferocious imaginative power, richly atmospheric, and intensely suspenseful. Dan Vyleta's most recent novel "The Crooked Maid" was...
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July 1981. As the country prepares to celebrate Prince Charles' wedding to Lady Diana, Libby wants to be as far away from royal wedding fever as possible. Having caught her own fianc�e in bed with her best friend just weeks before they were due to marry, she's fled London for the comfort of the Suffolk countryside. At Larkspur House, with its magical garden created by renowned garden designer and one-time socialite Elfrida Ambrose, and its comfortingly...
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