Molly Fox's Birthday By Deirdre Madden

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Title	:	Molly Fox's Birthday
Author	:	Deirdre Madden
ISBN	:	0312429541
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	221

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A Finalist for the Orange PrizeIt is the height of summer, and celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house in Dublin to a friend while she is away performing in New York Alone among all of Molly s possessions, struggling to finish her latest play, she looks back on the many years and many phases of her friendship with Molly and their college friend Andrew, and comes t A Finalist for the Orange PrizeIt is the heig More...

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A Little Life By Hanya Yanagihara

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Title	:	A Little Life
Author	:	Hanya Yanagihara
ISBN	:	0385539258
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	720

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When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they re broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor JB, a quick witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn born painter seeking entry to the art world Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm and withdrawn, b When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their w More...

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The Mystery Of Charles Dickens By Peter Ackroyd

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Title	:	The Mystery Of Charles Dickens
Author	:	Peter Ackroyd
ISBN	:	0563536500
Format	:	Audio Cassette
Number of Pages	:	2

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In this tour de force performance, Simon Callow portrays not only Charles Dickens but also many of his best loved characters, from Mr Micawber and Bill Sikes to Oliver Twist and even Nancy Readings from Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield and many of his other novels interweave with the author s own words and an incisive, compassionate narrative An idyllic childhood in In this tour de force performance, Simon Callow portrays not only Charles Dickens but a More...

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That Old Cape Magic By Richard Russo

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Title	:	That Old Cape Magic
Author	:	Richard Russo
ISBN	:	0739318926
Format	:	Audio CD
Number of Pages	:	272

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Following Bridge of Sighs a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as an astounding achievement and a masterpiece Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in laws to children and the promises of youth.Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father s ashes in the trunk, but his moth Following Bridge of Sighs a national best seller hailed by T More...

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The Sportswriter By Richard Ford

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Title	:	The Sportswriter
Author	:	Richard Ford
ISBN	:	0394743253
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	375

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As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people men, mostly who live entirely within themselves This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to But at thirty eight, he suffers from incurable dreaminess, occasional pounding of the heart, and the not too distant losses of a career, a son, and a marriage In the course of the Easter week in which Ford As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people men, mostly who live e More...

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Each Vagabond by Name By Margo Orlando Littell

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Title	:	Each Vagabond by Name
Author	:	Margo Orlando Littell
ISBN	:	1608011224
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:

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For residents of Shelk, a sleepy Pennsylvania town lying along a vein of the Appalachian Mountains, life has always been a series of unchallenged routines and circulating gossip But when a group of teenage runaways settles in the hills and begins to invade their homes and lives, lines become drawn between those residents seeking to insulate themselves from the outside wor For residents of Shelk, a sleepy Pennsylvania town lying along a vein of the Appalach More...

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Journey to the End of the Night By Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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Title	:	Journey to the End of the Night
Author	:	Louis-Ferdinand Céline
ISBN	:	0811216543
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	607

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Louis Ferdinand Celine s revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism This book shocked most critics when it was first pub Louis Ferdinand Celine s revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypo More...

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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler By Italo Calvino

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Title	:	If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Author	:	Italo Calvino
ISBN	:
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	260

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If on a Winter s Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded Italo Calvino s novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter s Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimenta More...

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The Seal Wife By Kathryn Harrison

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Title	:	The Seal Wife
Author	:	Kathryn Harrison
ISBN	:	1841157805
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	224

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A stunning and hypnotic novel, The Seal Wife tells the story of a young scientist and his consuming love for a woman known as Aleut In 1915, Bigelow is sent to establish a weather observatory in Anchorage, Alaska, and finds that nothing has prepared him for the loneliness of a railroad town of over two thousand men and only a handful of women, of winter nights twenty hour A stunning and hypnotic novel, The More...

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On the Night Plain By J. Robert Lennon

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Title	:	On the Night Plain
Author	:	J. Robert Lennon
ISBN	:	0312420862
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	256

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At the end of World War II, Grant Person abandons his family s ranch on the Great Plains for a fishing boat on the Atlantic, only to be drawn back by his mother s death His father has mysteriously disappeared, and Grant s brother, Max, a lifelong rival, takes off on the day Grant returns, leaving him with a sickly flock and a pile of debt When Max returns a year later wi At the end of World War II, Grant Person abandons his family s ranch on the Great Plai More...

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Fates and Furies By Lauren Groff

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Title	:	Fates and Furies
Author	:	Lauren Groff
ISBN	:	1594634475
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	390

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Every story has two sides Every relationship has two perspectives And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets At the core of this rich, expansive, layered novel, Lauren Groff presents the story of one such marriage over the course of twenty four years.At age twenty two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love, Every story has two sides Every relationship has two perspectives And sometimes, it tur More...

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A Distant Shore By Caryl Phillips

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Title	:	A Distant Shore
Author	:	Caryl Phillips
ISBN	:	1400034507
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	288

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Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village Solomon is a night watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa Each is desperate for love And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible.With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips retraces the paths that lead Dorothy and Solom Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has rece More...

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Hotel du Lac By Anita Brookner

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Title	:	Hotel du Lac
Author	:	Anita Brookner
ISBN	:	0679759328
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	182

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Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit NewsweekIn the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question Why love It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a pseudonym When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit NewsweekIn the novel that won More...

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Setting Free the Bears By John Irving

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Title	:	Setting Free the Bears
Author	:	John Irving
ISBN	:	0345417984
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	304

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It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first novel written by a twenty five year old John Irving, already a master storyteller. More...

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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings By Charles Dickens

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Title	:	A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Author	:	Charles Dickens
ISBN	:	0140439056
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	288

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Merry Christmas every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding Dickens story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors, has proved one of his most well loved works Ever since it was published in 1843 it has had an enduring influence on the way w Merry Christmas every idiot who goes ab More...

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Elegies for the Brokenhearted By Christie Hodgen

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Title	:	Elegies for the Brokenhearted
Author	:	Christie Hodgen
ISBN	:	039306140X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	288

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A savvy, spirited, moving, and surprisingly humorous novel in elegies Who are the people you ll never forget For Mary Murphy, there are five A skirt chasing, car racing uncle with whiskey breath and a three day beard A walking joke, a sitting duck, a fish in a barrel named Elwood LePoer A dirt poor college roommate who conceals an unbearable secret A failed piano p A savvy, spirited, moving, and surprisingly humorous novel in elegies Who are the people you More...

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Le furie By Janet Hobhouse

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Title	:	Le furie
Author	:	Janet Hobhouse
ISBN	:	8817016497
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	415

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Janet Hobhouse scrisse questo romanzo, intimamente autobiografico, quando gi sapeva della malattia che l avrebbe uccisa poco oltre i quarant anni, e lo progett come uno sguardo all indietro su una vita ricca di sofferenze e di amori vissuti, sempre, a occhi bene aperti Al centro della storia, c il rapporto indimenticabile tra una madre giovane, fragile e avole e Janet Hobhouse scrisse questo romanzo, intimamente autobiografico, quando gi sapeva della malat More...

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