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The House Girl
by Tara Conklin
Hardcover: Feb 2013
Paperback: 1 Oct 2013
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| A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped house slave in 1852 Virginia and ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York |
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Calling Me Home
by Julie Kibler
Hardcover: Feb 2013
Paperback: 4 Feb 2014
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| Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship. |
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In the Kingdom of Men: A Novel
by Kim Barnes
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 12 Feb 2013
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| From the PEN USA Award-winning author of A Country Called Home, a richly imagined new novel about a young woman who leaves the dusty farmland of 1960s Oklahoma to follow her husband to the oil fields of Saudi Arabia and finds a world of wealth, glamour, American privilege, and corruption. |
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The Newlyweds: A Novel
by Nell Freudenberger
Hardcover: May 2012
Paperback: 12 Feb 2013
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| A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals. |
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Philida
by André Brink
Paperback: 5 Feb 2013
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| In Philida, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, André Brink—"one of South Africa's greatest novelists" (The Telegraph)—gives us his most powerful novel yet; the truly unforgettable story of a female slave, and her fierce determination to survive and to be free. |
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Schroder
by Amity Gaige
Hardcover: Feb 2013
Paperback: 21 Oct 2013
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| Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder - a first-generation East German immigrant - adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course. |
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The Truth of All Things: A Novel
by Kieran Shields
Hardcover: Mar 2012
Paperback: 5 Feb 2013
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| When newly appointed Deputy Marshal Archie Lean is called in to investigate a prostitute's murder in Portland, Maine, he's surprised to find the body laid out like a pentagram and pinned to the earth with a pitchfork. He's even more surprised to learn that this death by "sticking" is a traditional method of killing a witch... |
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Girlchild: A Novel
by Tupelo Hassman
Hardcover: Feb 2012
Paperback: 5 Feb 2013
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| Tupelo Hassman’s Girlchild is a heart-stopping and original debut. |
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