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  • Animal's People
    Animal's People : A Novel
    by Indra Sinha
    Hardcover: Mar 2008
    Paperback: Mar 2009
     
    Profane, piercingly honest, and scathingly funny, Animal's People is the stunning tale of an unforgettable character: Animal, a young man whose back was twisted beyond repair in an industrial accident. It is a dark world, shot through with flashes ...
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  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
    Animal, Vegetable, Miracle : A Year of Food Life
    by Barbara Kingsolver
    Hardcover: May 2007
    Paperback: Apr 2008
     
    Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
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  • Annabel
    Annabel : A Novel
    by Kathleen Winter
    Hardcover: Jan 2011
    Paperback: Jan 2011
     
    Award-winning Canadian author Kathleen Winter’s Annabel is a stunning debut novel about the family of a mixed-gendered child born into a rural hunting community in the 1960s.
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  • Anthropology of an American Girl
    Anthropology of an American Girl : A Novel
    by Hilary Thayer Hamann
    Hardcover: May 2010
    Paperback: Jun 2011
     
    A moving depiction of the transformative power of first love, Hamann's first novel follows Eveline Auerbach from her high school years in East Hampton, New York, in the 1970s through her early adulthood in the moneyed, high-pressured Manhattan of the...
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  • The Antidote
    The Antidote : Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
    by Oliver Burkeman
    Hardcover: Nov 2012
    Paperback: Nov 2013
     
    A witty, fascinating, and counterintuitive read that turns decades of self-help advice on its head and forces us to rethink completely our attitudes toward failure, uncertainty, and death.
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  • Antoinette's Sister
    Antoinette's Sister
    by Diana Giovinazzo
    Hardcover: Jan 2022
    Paperback: Nov 2022
     
    As Marie Antoinette took her last breath as Queen of France in Paris, another formidable monarch - Antoinette's dearly beloved sister, Charlotte - was hundreds of miles away, in Naples, fighting desperately to secure her release from the ...
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  • Any Human Heart
    Any Human Heart : The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart: A Novel
    by William Boyd
    Hardcover: Feb 2003
    Paperback: Jan 2004
     
    A moving, ambitious and richly conceived novel that summons up the heroics and follies of twentieth-century life.
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  • Anything Is Possible
    Anything Is Possible : Amgash Series #2
    by Elizabeth Strout
    Hardcover: Apr 2017
    Paperback: Mar 2018
     
    An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this new work of fiction by #1 bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout.
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