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Live by Night Live by Night
by Dennis Lehane
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 14 May 2013
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Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream.
The Light Between Oceans The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
by Margot L. Stedman
Hardcover: Jul 2012
Paperback: 2 Apr 2013
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A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel that opens in 1918 Australia - the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds.
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
by Therese Fowler
Hardcover: 26 Mar 2013
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A dazzling novel that captures all of the romance, glamour, and tragedy of the first flapper, Zelda Fitzgerald.
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Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight... read more
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