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  • Passing Strange
    Passing Strange : A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
    by Martha A. Sandweiss
    Hardcover: Feb 2009
    Paperback: Jan 2010
     
    The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West and the woman he loved
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  • The Passion of Artemisia
    The Passion of Artemisia
    by Susan Vreeland
    Hardcover: Jan 2002
    Paperback: Jan 2003
     
    An astonishing portrait of a woman that will captivate lovers of Gentileschi's paintings and anyone interested in the life of a woman who ignored the conventions of her day and dared to follow her heart.
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  • Past the Shallows
    Past the Shallows
    by Favel Parrett
    Paperback: Apr 2014
     
    Hauntingly beautiful and told with an elegant simplicity, this is the story of two brothers growing up in a fractured family on the wild Tasmanian coast.
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  • A Patchwork Planet
    A Patchwork Planet
    by Anne Tyler
    Hardcover: May 1998
    Paperback: Mar 1999
     
    The story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order.
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  • The Pattern in the Carpet
    The Pattern in the Carpet : A Personal History with Jigsaws
    by Margaret Drabble
    Hardcover: Sep 2009
    Paperback: Sep 2010
     
    An original and brilliant work. Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her and many others relief from melancholy and depression.
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  • Peach Blossom Spring
    Peach Blossom Spring : A Novel
    by Melissa Fu
    Hardcover: Mar 2022
    Paperback: Feb 2023
     
    A "beautifully rendered" novel about war, migration, and the power of telling our stories, Peach Blossom Spring follows three generations of a Chinese family on their search for a place to call home (Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author ...
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  • A Pearl in the Storm
    A Pearl in the Storm : How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
    by Tori Murden McClure
    Hardcover: Apr 2009
    Paperback: Apr 2010
     
    In June 1998, Tori McClure set out to row across the Atlantic Ocean by herself in a twenty-three-foot plywood boat with no motor or sail. It was a journey that affected her life in unexpected ways for years to come.
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  • Pearl of China
    Pearl of China : A Novel
    by Anchee Min
    Hardcover: Mar 2010
    Paperback: Mar 2011
     
    From the bestselling author of Red Azalea and Empress Orchid comes the powerful story of the friendship of a lifetime, based on the life of Pearl S. Buck.
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