A gripping and moving memoir The Bleaks is the true story of a harrowing nightmare into which writer Paul Illidge's life is plunged one summer night, when a police drug-squad raids his...
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Author: Illidge, PaulSummary:
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Author: Lawrence, D. H.Summary:
Two women isolated on a lonely Cornish farm face an evil greater than all others: a fox has begun carrying off hens and roosters, and nothing they do seems to stop him. And then one day, a...
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Author: Massey, BrandonSummary:
Andrew Wilson has it all: a great house, a great job as a mystery writer, and all the money he can handle. But he's missing one thing: someone to share it all with. One day while writing at a...
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Author: PARK, RuthSummary:
The first volume of the author's autobiography. Written as vividly as any of her novels, this is a moving, passionate and funny account of her early childhood, living alone with her parents in the...
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Author: Tomlinson, H. M.Summary:
The author's travel narrative aboard a freighter bound for the Amazon in the winter of 1909.
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Author: Hoagland, EdwardSummary:
From the pages of the New Yorker, Esquire, and the Paris Review, "Edward Hoagland's collected stories are dazzling" (Ann Beattie). Saul Bellow called him "one of the very best writers of his...
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Author: Sileika, AntanasSummary:
A rollicking memoir through the shifting zeitgeist of the last five decades. In The Barefoot Bingo Caller, Antanas Sileika finds what's funny and touching in the most unlikely places,...
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Author: Blake, HeatherSummary:
The nationally bestselling author of Gone with the Witch returns as wish-granting witch Darcy Merriweather uncovers dangerous skeletons in the closet-and the garage...
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Author: Min, AncheeSummary:
Traces the author's journey from the painful deprivations of her homeland to the sudden bounty of the United States, where she endured five jobs, crime, and a painful marriage before the birth of...
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Author: Falkiner, SuzanneSummary:
Biographer Suzanne Falkiner presents a fascinating portrait of English writer E. L. Grant Watson, whose experiences as a young man in Australia at the beginning of the twentieth century shaped his...
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Author: Henderson, DeeSummary:
Sara's terrified. She's doing the one thing she cannot afford to do: fall in love with a famous man, former pro football player Adam Black. Sara is hidden away in the witness protection program,...
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Author: Seethaler, Robert, Collins, CharlotteSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel leaves his village and journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop. There he meets Sigmund Freud, one of the regular customers. Over time, an unlikely...
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Author: Lewis, BeverlySummary:
Twenty-seven-year-old Amish woman Joanna Kurtz has been a bridesmaid plenty of times, but never a bride. And despite having a secret romance with responsible young Amishman Eben Troyer, their...
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Author: Patterson, James, DiLallo, RichardSummary:
Writers Jacob and Megan Brandeis go undercover to take on the Store, a retail behemoth that has helped usher in an age of unparalleled convenience--but at what price? Harboring a secret that could...
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Author: Banville, JohnSummary:
When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin...