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1) Deerfield
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Most folks around Deerfield know that Paul Durkin used to drink too much. People also talk about when he managed to get sober for quite a long while and spent most of his time helping countless others in nearby parts who were struggling with addiction issues. Paul was hailed as a humble small-town hero back then. The sort of fellow who would do anything for anybody at anytime.
Gossip also spreads through Deerfield in hushed tones about the odd and...
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On Bittersweet Place is the powerful coming-of-age story of Lena Czernitski, a young Russian Jew whose family flees their homeland in the Ukraine after the October Revolution. The story unfolds in Chicago during the Jazz Age of the 1920's, where Lena's impoverished family has settled and where she must traverse the early years of adolescence. Lena's new world is large and beautiful and full of promise, but it is also cold and unwelcoming and laden...
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Imagine you wake up one day to find 99% of the world's population has disappeared - and then 99% again the morning after that. Phones and internet down, highways destroyed, a government that isn't exactly forthcoming with answers...how would you go about figuring out what became of friends and family? The protagonists confront these questions and more in Jason McGathey's chilling new novel, set in an all too believable near future.
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"I don't know how Mama knew Daddy was going to hurt us," Minnie says. She yanked us out of the bed and over to the wall. The door flew open. There was a huge explosion! Daddy had fired his shotgun into our bed." Minnie leaves boarding school to spend the summer at The Big House, her cherished Grandpa's home. She enjoys adventure, but she also learns of the dangers posed by the land and a river that can seduce the unwary. The arrival of Minnie's great-grandmother...
5) Last Will
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Bernie Raleigh fails at everything he touches. The victim of a kidnapping for ransom as a child, Bernie has spent his adult life trying to avoid being noticed. That's impossible once he inherits his grandfather's enormous fortune. The inheritance comes complete with a lot of obligations, a mansion, and a problematic housekeeper named Meda Amos. Beauty queen, alien abductee, crypto-Jew, single mother - Meda is all those things, and she may be the only...
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At the end of his sophomore year at Columbia, young go-getter Ari Edelman returns to his modest family home on Long Island and takes a job as a handyman at Ocean House, the iconic Hamptons estate of wealthy author Edward Vann. As the summer advances, so does Ari's position in Edward's life, and he even helps to shape Edward's current novel. But the ambitious Ari has always wanted more than what life tends to offer, and by the time he reaches middle...
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Once you complete this book, you will have read the only comprehensive interpretation of the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This groundbreaking work offers a new paradigm for L. Frank Baum's first Oz book, and for the New Testament and the author of its source document, Flavius Josephus. It has no counterpart within any other analysis. As such, I initially expect to gain few allies. In time, for those willing to look deeper, the bold hypothesis I offer...
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A nameless narrator documents the gradual unraveling of her life in the face of series after series of disappointment in spite of doing exactly what she thought was expected of her. Taking place in Boston, New York, Paris and Los Angeles, the escapades of our narrator include murder, prostitution, drug addiction and the discovery of what she must do in order to achieve some semblance of satisfaction.
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C.W. Smith's award-winning first novel, Thin Men of Haddam, established him as a novelist of power and compassion, and Country Music offers up a shrewd anatomy of sexual and social stances that extends the range and depth of his vision. Country Music opens when Bobby Joe Gilbert, Hedorville's Bane to Virgins and Most Unlikely to Succeed, confronts an unwelcome question: "What are you going to do with yourself?" Desperate to escape his reputation and...
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Thirty-year-old Johnny Romano wants to be taken seriously, but the choices he makes-a one-man production of Waiting for Godot, a monumental sneeze in a cold syrup commercial, and a thirty-thousand-dollar gambling debt to Salvatore "Sally Toast" Tosterelli- have sabotaged his acting career. His bad decisions have, more importantly, put his four-and-a-half-year relationship with a woman he truly loves-soap opera star Laura Winters-on the edge of a cliff.
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12) Father
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Bob Shepherd is the workaholic accountant of Birch Woods Nursing Home in Neumann, Connecticut. He's at the end of his rope. One of his few friends is dying. It looks as if his boss is about to fire him. And Bob's wife, Sylvia, pregnant with their third child, is thinking about divorce. Kevin Moore, the newly appointed priest at St. Catherine's Catholic church in Neumann, has already established himself as a strong presence in the community. Dreaming...
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This is a collection of haunting and breathtaking short stories. The characters are beings oppressed by their fears, tyrannized by their weaknesses, confused by their own dreams. An aura of death and delirium hovers over their lives forcing them to reveal the hidden boundaries of human nature. These stories inhabit the limits between reality and madness, between ordinary occurrences and unexpected coincidences. It is at these crossroads where the...
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In The Romantic Imperative, young Vida Cleary says, "Every woman believes in the possibility of the Great Romance. It is her birthright." Marshall says, "Our birthright is always at risk in the face of reality." Vida marries her romantic ideal, Dorsey Danzie: rich, flamboyant, brilliant, and elusive. The following morning, Dorsey drops a bomb - presumably a cock-'n-bull story she must accept. Vida reacts by fleeing to Southern California where for...
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In "Look Away No More," a novel of manners and war, passion and first love, decorum and protests, a sorority girl from Georgia has something to say.
Tally McCall, a Georgia debutante, trophy-winning majorette, and member of the Chaucer Sorority at Hamper University, is also a history scholar. Hamper University, Georgia's oldest coastal college, is on the cusp of summer while other colleges are on the cusp of anarchy, ablaze with protests against...
16) Catch a Dream
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Catch a Dream takes place in Israel during the time of the first intifada in 1988 when Arabic frustration for a homeland erupted in strikes, demonstrations and suicide bombings and Israelis retaliated with arrests, house demolitions and stricter check-points. Rainbow Dove and Lily Ambrosia, traveling with their children, arrive in Haifa. On a mission to sow seeds of peace, they intend to follow in the footsteps of Jesus. They are soul sisters, single...
17) Operaland
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OPERALAND follows Richie Verdun, a funny, fearless little dynamo, as he enters the glamorous and treacherous world of opera facing almost impossible odds. He's in his early forties, unusually old for a beginner, and without the benefit of either musical or theatrical training. To make matters worse, this irrepressible fireplug of a man is overly fond of inappropriate, almost infantile jokes that are wildly out of place in his sophisticated new surroundings.
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18) Busker's Holiday
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From award-winning blues scholar and musician Adam Gussow, a taut, sexy first novel about the summer busking scene in Europe and a pair of wild-hearted young men who make a pitch for fame and glory, finding a girl or two along the way. Busker's Holiday is the story of McKay Chernoff, a Columbia University grad student with a harmonica in his pocket and a blues band in his background. Desolate and despairing after a disastrous romantic breakup, McKay...
19) To Be Had
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Can you earn respect and love within your own family if you cannot provide them with more than bare survival? Are there any ethical and moral boundaries you would not cross, any humiliation you would not bear, while trying to make enough money to enable your child to build a life better than yours? Boris faces an uphill struggle while he desperately tries to climb the financial and social ladder. The break-up of his marriage and the loss of contact...
20) Moonwater
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Young Professor Garo Daigle returns to his Louisiana backwater home, after a four-year absence, hoping to make amends with his evangelical parents. His hope is quickly turned on its heels by the suspicion of murder, infidelity, and the onus of political corruption. Their reconciliation efforts are marred by pessimism, a dogma on the edge of despair, and a tragic certainty that the Creator is a threat to human existence.
Reverend Elwood and Mother...
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