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Cloudland
by Joseph Olshan

St. Martin's Minotaur
Publishes: 04/10/2012
Genre: Mysteries
304 pages

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Joseph Olshan is the award-winning author of nine novels. His broad-ranging subjects vary from the wise, tough-minded, hilarious Clara Mayfield who became the model of the film character based on his novel, Clara's Heart, to an aristocratic, politically savvy Italian novelist who lives in a villa in Tuscany (The Conversion). His forthcoming novel, Cloudland is based on a true crime story: the serial murders of 6 women that occurred in the Connecticut River valley of Vermont and New Hampshire, crimes that were never solved. His writing has been translated into sixteen languages. He lives between Vermont and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Once a major reporter for a national newspaper, Catherine Winslow has retreated to the Upper Valley of Vermont to write a household hints column....

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Oxford Messed Up
by Andrea Kayne Kaufman

Grant Place Press
Publishes: 11/17/2011
Genre: Novels
336 pages

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Andrea Kayne Kaufman is chair of the Department of Leadership, Language and Curriculum at the DePaul University College of Education in Chicago. An educator and attorney, she earned a B.A. from Vassar College, an M.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two children.

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Oxford Messed Up is a unique literary love story that transports readers on a meaningful and emotional journey where the academic world of...

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All Woman and Springtime
by Brandon Jones

Algonquin Books
Publishes: 05/01/2012
Genre: Novels
384 pages

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Brandon Jones is a classical guitarist and metal sculptor who lives in Hawaii.

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Before she met Il-sun in an orphanage, Gi was a hollow husk of a girl, broken from growing up in one of North Korea's forced-labour camps. A...

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The House of Velvet and Glass
by Katherine Howe

Voice
Publishes: 04/10/2012
Genre: Novels
432 pages

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Katherine Howe, author of the "magical" debut novel, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns with the mesmerizing The House of...

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Paris in Love:
A Memoir
by Eloisa James

Random House
Publishes: 04/17/2012
Genre: Biographies/Memoirs
272 pages

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Mary Bly (aka Eloisa James) is currently a full professor and co-director of the creative writing program at Fordham. She and her family now live in New York City. Paris in Love is her first work of nonfiction.

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In 2009, New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from...

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