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Search results: The best new books - Book reviews, excerpts, author bios & more from exceptional recently published books.
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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir
by Anna Quindlen
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 23 Apr 2013
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| In this irresistible memoir, the #1 New York Times bestselling author writes about her life and the lives of women today, looking back and ahead - and celebrating it all - as she considers marriage, girlfriends, our mothers, faith, loss, all that stuff in our closets, and more. |
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Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp
by Helga Weiss
Hardcover: 22 Apr 2013
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| The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time. |
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The Coldest Night: A Novel of Love and War
by Robert Olmstead
Hardcover: Apr 2012
Paperback: 16 Apr 2013
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| Olmstead reveals an unspoken truth about combat: That for many men, the experience of war is the most enlivening, electric, and extraordinary experience of their lives. |
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How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
by Wendy Moore
Hardcover: 9 Apr 2013
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| Stranger than fiction, blending tragedy and farce, How to Create the Perfect Wife is an engrossing tale of the radicalism, and deep contradictions, at the heart of the Enlightenment. |
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The Shelter Cycle
by Peter Rock
Hardcover: 2 Apr 2013
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| An American original, Peter Rock brings our strangest beliefs to vivid and sympathetic life in this haunting novel inspired by true events. |
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Happier Endings: A Meditation on Life and Death
by Erica Brown
Hardcover: 2 Apr 2013
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| A wise and affirming meditation on living fully and preparing for death, written by a highly regarded spiritual teacher. |
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Wave
by Sonali Deraniyagala
Hardcover: 5 Mar 2013
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| A brave, intimate, beautifully crafted memoir by a survivor of the tsunami that struck the Sri Lankan coast in 2004 and took her entire family. |
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Fever
by Sean Rowe
Hardcover: Sep 2005
Paperback: 1 Sep 2006
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| 'Sean Rowe's Fever is as fresh and blistering and relentless a thriller
as any tropical noir I've read. Rowe knows this territory well--especially the
creatures that slither about it when the sun goes down. Jump on board, hang on
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