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Lesser Known Works By Well-Known Authors
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The General in His Labyrinth
by Gabriel García Márquez
Old and ill, General Simon Bolivar reexamines his life--reliving his campaigns, recalling his romances, and revealing himself as a lover, libertine, and fighter--during a seven-month voyage down the Magdalena River.
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Harvesting the Heart
by Jodi Picoult
Now with a child of her own, Paige is still haunted by memories of her own mother, who left when she was five, and plagued by constant self-doubt
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
by Douglas Adams
For Dirk Gently, private detective, a simple search for a missing cat uncovers a bewildered ghost, a secret time traveller, and a devastating secret that threatens the future of humanity
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Bodily Harm
by Margaret Eleanor Atwood
The fifth novel by one of the world's most eminent literary women features a young journalist who flees to the Caribbean to reevaluate her life and learns a lesson in the lust for power and the need for compassion
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The Cement Garden
by Ian McEwan
When their mother dies, four children living in an isolated house in London find themselves without guidance for the entire summer
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Something Happened
by Joseph Heller
Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened.
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The Last Letter From Your Lover
by Jojo Moyes
More than forty years after a car accident causes Jennifer Stirling to lose her memory on the day she planned to leave her husband for a mysterious lover, journalist Ellie becomes obsessed by the story and seeks the truth in the hopes of revitalizing hercareer
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My Uncle Oswald
by Roald Dahl
Tells of Oswald Hendryks Cornelius' early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers, of discovering the invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle, and of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely, his electrifying partner in a most unusual series of thefts...
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Villette
by Charlotte Bronte
Fleeing a tragic past, Lucy Snowe leaves her home in England to pursue a career as a teacher at a girls' boarding school on the Continent, in this classic romantic novel that captures the narrator's ability to transform her mundane daily existence into the extraordinary.
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The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
by Carson McCullers
Six stories including "Wunderkind," "A Domestic Dilemma," and "The Sojourner" accompany The Ballad of the Sad Café, a novella about shattered dreams in a small Southern town. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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The Beet Queen
by Louise Erdrich
Orphaned fourteen-year-old Carl and his eleven-year-old sister, Mary, travel to Argus, North Dakota, to live with their mother's sister, in this tale of abandonment, sexual obsession, jealousy, and unstinting love.
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Three wishes : a novel
by Liane Moriarty
Approaching their thirty-third birthdays, triplets Lyn, Cat, and Gemma recall their tumultuous prior year, one marked by pregnancy, a love affair, a mid-life crisis, and the possible reconciliation of their divorced parents
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The Easter parade : a novel
by Richard Yates
Sisters Emily and Sarah Grimes evolve into two very different women after their parents' divorce--Sarah is stable and settling into an unhappy marriage, and Emily is independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another, in a story about overcoming a tarnished family history.
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A Change of Climate
by Hilary Mantel
When Ralph, Anna Eldred's husband of thirty years, is unfaithful, it triggers memories of a bad experience they had together as young missionaries in South Africa.
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A Long Fatal Love Chase
by Louisa May Alcott
Recently discovered, nearly 130 years after it was written, this controversial tale of obsessive passion follows Rosamond Vivian's desperate struggle to escape a web of intrigue, cruelty, and deceit woven by the mysterious Philip Tempest. Reprint.
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How To Be Good
by Nick Hornby
Katie, a liberal, urban mother and doctor from North London, finds her life turned upside down when her husband, David, undergoes an outrageous spiritual transformation, in a hilarious novel about marriage, parenthood, religion, and morality.
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Her Fearful Symmetry
by Audrey Niffenegger
After they inherit a London flat near Highgate Cemetery from their aunt Elspeth Noblin, two American twin teenagers, Julia and Valentina, move in and get to know their quirky neighbors, but they soon discover that much is still alive at Highgate, including, perhaps, their aunt, who can't seem to leave her old apartment or life behind.
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A Case of Need
by Michael Crichton (writing as Jeffrey Hudson)
When a young woman dies mysteriously on an operating table and her physician is accused of murder, a colleague's investigation takes him from a deadly sex and drug underworld to the heights of Boston society as he searches for the truth. A first novel.
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The Host : a novel
by Stephenie Meyer
A member of a species that takes over the minds of human bodies, Wanderer is unable to disregard his host's love for a man in hiding, a situation that forces both possessor and host to become unwilling allies, in a novel that serves as the basis for a feature film opening in March.
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Sweet Thursday
by John Steinbeck
A group of California alcoholics, whores, and idlers form bonds of affection among themselves and with a biologist in post-World War II Monterey
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