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Farmers cutting turf from a peat bog in Ireland unearth a perfectly preservedsevered head of a young woman with long, red hair. Irish archaeologist CormacMaguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin team up to identify the woman anddiscover why she...

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From internationally bestselling author Iain Pears comes the seventh in his Jonathan Argyll series -- an intriguing mystery of love, loss, and artistic license. For newlywed and Italian art theft squad head Flavia di Stefano, the honeymoon is over...

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Mendelson addresses the meanings as well as the methods of housekeeping with a keen sense of the history and values involved. The result is a warm, good-humored, engagingly written book with a message and a point of view, one that is overflowing w...

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In this beautiful and brutal debut novel, the new South Africa comes to life with its violent history, as Eva van Rensburg confronts her dying father with a terrible secret from her childhood.

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Now available in paperback, the critically acclaimed, "lyrical, analytical, yet deeply affecting” (The Washington Post) memoir about one woman's obsessive search for the perfect piano—and about finding and pursuing passion at any ...

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From the award-winning author of "Liars and Saints" comes a riveting sequel of love, sex, secrets, guilt, and forgiveness, which follows the fascinating Santerre clan to Argentina.

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"The Turning" is a masterfully crafted collection of interlinked stories from the two-time Man Booker Prize nominee and author of "Dirt Music" and "The Riders."

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The fabulous Lucifer Box returns for another round of spirited, pun-heavy sleuthing in this devilishly decadent sequel to the acclaimed The Vesuvius Club. Lucifer Box -- portraitist, dandy and terribly good secret agent -- is feeling his age. He's...

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Sensual, witty, and startlingly original, Tiffanys debut novel--about a young woman, her passionate relationship with an agricultural expert, and their efforts at scientific living--marks the arrival of a great new voice in fiction.

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Rainbow's End is a haunting memoir, with the stunning power of child witness to war, that belongs on the paperback shelf next to I Dreamed of Africa and Don't Lets¿Go to the Dogs Tonight.

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An explosive play that took critics and audiences by storm, "Equus" is Peter Shaffer's exploration of the way modern society has destroyed our ability to feel passion. Alan Strang is a disturbed youth whose dangerous obsession with horse...

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Hauntingly beautiful, this new work by the author of "Lick Creek" is an extraordinarily moving novel about solitude, love, losing one's way, and finding something like home.

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"One of the season's most talked about cultural studies” (Los Angeles Times)—an incisive and irreverent appreciation of nerds that combines history, sociology, psychology, and memoir from noted journalist and self-proclaimed nerd ...

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From Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Kem Nunn and "principal heir to the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West” ( The Washington Post)—an intense psychological suspense novel about a San Francisco neuropsychiatrist ...

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A provocative tell-all memoir by a successful madam unveils the secrets of the modern-day sex industry and explains why business is booming.

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Award-winning novelist Price provides a vivid portrait of his life in the mid-1950s, leading up to the publication of his brilliant first novel, "A Long and Happy Life," which details his time as a Rhodes scholar, writer, and teacher. In...

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Shira Nayman's riveting and haunting first novel of madness and passion is set in a psychiatric hospital just after World War II. Two years after the end of World War II, a mysterious figure, Bertram Reiner, appears at Shadowbrook, a private asylu...

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From Staceyann Chin, the iconic star of "Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam," a brave and fiercely candid memoir about growing up in Jamaica.

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From a celebrated humor writer for "The New Yorker" comes a brilliantly observed debut novel about the neurosis of romance and one single womans hilariously unhealthy obsession with her first boyfriend.

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This provocative and crucial book looks at how the Democratic party forfeited its association with morality and religion to the Republicans--and is beginning to take it back. "The Party Faithful" is a tough and revealing analysis of the ...

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In her stunning debut, Nicola Monaghan lays bare the gritty underbelly of life in Nottingham, England. Very early on, Kerrie-Ann begins to dream of the world beyond the rough council estate where she lives. Her father is nowhere to be found, her m...

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In this stunning debut, Betsy Tobin spins a classic tale of gothic suspense. Immersing readers in Elizabethan England, she masterfully evokes a heady place where science and superstition walk hand-in-hand and sensuality and violence are masked by ...

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Bundles, a journalist and great-great-granddaughter of Madam C. J. Walker, offers a lively portrait of an American businesswoman. Walker, the first freeborn child of slaves, rose from poverty to establish a successful hair-care business, became on...

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John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international intrigue with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, and have earned him unprecedented worldwide acclaim. A lawyer from a London finance house is...

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In an infectiously entertaining narrative, the documentary film maker of "Maxed Out" pens a road trip through an America populated by debt pirates, corporate predators, human credit card billboards, debt evangelists, and trillions of dol...

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This elegant, revealing, and powerful memoir of Vivian Cash, Johnny Cash's first wife of 12 years and the mother of his four daughters, features shocking new revelations, untold stories, and never-before-seen photos of the couple's life together. ...

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The award-winning author of "The Master" returns with this psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive collection of stories that tease out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons.

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The extraordinary true tale of a group of idealistic Yale law students who challenged the United States government and the American military in a battle for freedom that went all the way to the Supreme Court--and more than ever resonates today.

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Lehman, the renowned editor of the celebrated Best American Poetry series, edits this witty, titillating, and very sexy collection of the greatest Americana erotic poems--from Walt Whitman to todays most talented contemporary poets.

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A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medicine, narrative accounts of its history are uncommon. Until Ira Rutkow's Seeking the Cur...

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