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Hardcover: Sep 2007 | Paperback: May 2009
The story of Tessa, a young teenage girl who has only months to live ... a brilliantly crafted novel, heartbreaking yet life-affirming.
aka: The Book of Negroes
Hardcover: Nov 2007 | Paperback: Nov 2008
Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedomand of the knowledge she needs to get home.
Hardcover: Oct 2007 | Paperback: Oct 2008
A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobblers son who became the Red Tsarthe man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil.
A Novella
Hardcover: Sep 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008
A deliciously funny novella that celebrates the pleasure of reading. When the Queen in pursuit of her wandering corgis stumbles upon a mobile library she feels duty bound to borrow a book. Aided by Norman, a young man from the palace kitchen who ...
Hardcover: Jan 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008
An epic novel of Russia on the eve of revolution.
Stories
Hardcover: Oct 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008
From a chance encounter between two childhood friends to the memories of a newly widowed man to a family grappling with the sale of their ancestral land, Trevor examines with grace and skill the tenuous bonds of our relationships, the strengths that ...
A War Story
Hardcover: Sep 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008
A true story, as powerful as Schindlers List, in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
A Novel
Hardcover: Sep 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008
As a teenager, Sam Pulsifer's accidentally torches an American landmark, and killed two people in the blaze. After ten years in prison, he thinks he has put his past behind him - but when the homes of Robert Frost, Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, and...
A Novel
Hardcover: Sep 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008
This story of Skip Sands - spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong - and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel.
Stories
Hardcover: Sep 2007 | Paperback: Sep 2008
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures invites us into a world where the ordinary becomes the critical in a matter of seconds. A formidable debut, it is a profound and unforgettable depiction of todays doctors, patients, and hospitals.
A Memoir
Hardcover: May 2007 | Paperback: Aug 2008
Heart in the Right Place, an alternately laugh-out-loud-funny and cry-your-eyes-out-serious memoir about the down-sizing of Carolyn Jourdan's life from white marble columns, gilded domes, and Neiman Marcus to naugahyde, peeling linoleum, and Wal-mart...
Hardcover: Oct 2007 | Paperback: Aug 2008
The tenth Easy Rawlins thriller puts him on the streets of LA to solve a case that threatens the lives of his closest friends.
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