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Museum of Stones

Lynn Lurie

Museum of Stones

• Museum of Stones links a mother’s past and present in a dizzying narrative as she raises an unusual son. • The unnamed narrator carries the name of every mother who has stared into the face of her newborn, having no idea of what is about to unfold. • Everything in the narrator’s life is refracted against this singular event, often giving way to memories at a dizzying speed. The interconnections of time, place and emotion flood her thoughts as she moves through her daily routines. All of it...

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Lynn Lurie

In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees

Jeff Talarigo

In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees

•In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees provides a fresh look on a misunderstood people, and a different perspective on Israel and the Palestinian diaspora. •This is the first novel set in Gaza on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict written by an English speaking writer.•It is about an American who discovers himself as a person in the middle of a refugee camp where animals can talk and dream. •On his second trip to Gaza in 1993, he saw two Palestinian boys playing with an injured bird with a string...

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Jeff Talarigo

Quick Kills

Lynn Lurie

Quick Kills

Our first excursion was to the Bronx Zoo. The Photographer wanted to shoot me holding a python. The snakemaster wrapped the thickest, blackest one around my shoulders. An employee of the zoo offered to take a picture of the python and me with the Photographer, referring to me as the Photographer's daughter. At that moment the snake picked up its head and began to slither towards my face. I did not scream. I pleaded with the snakemaster to take the python off me. After the snake was in its...

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Lynn Lurie

The Burning House

Paul Lisicky

The Burning House

Paul Lisicky is well-known and well-connected in the literary and academic worlds. (Husband is Mark Doty.) Extensive reading tour planned, with 30-40 stops at bookstores, book festivals, writers' conferences, and universities. (Author did more than 20 readings on his own in 2010, with no new book since 2006.) Author is an active social networker, with over 4000 Facebook friends and Twitter followers, as well as a popular blog and web site. Burning House already has stellar blurbs, from...

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Paul Lisicky

The Arsonist's Song Has Nothing to...

Allison Titus

The Arsonist's Song Has Nothing to Do With Fire

The Doctor was looking for the blueprint. Drawer after drawer he lumbered his way around the office, a map of the ribcage in his head. Last night he’d dreamed the wings again and the dream gave him an idea. More of the rib, dismantled, would make the wing frame more flexible.In The Arsonist’s Song Has Nothing to Do with Fire, Vivian Foster connects with an arsonist and a radical plastic surgeon whose mission is to build human wings.Allison Titus is the author of a book of...

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Allison Titus

Wildwood

Elinor Florence

Wildwood

A single mother. An abandoned farmhouse. An epic battle with the northern wilderness. Broke and desperate, Molly Bannister accepts the ironclad condition laid down in her great-aunt’s will: to receive her inheritance, Molly must spend one year in an abandoned, off-the-grid farmhouse in the remote backwoods of northern Alberta. If she does, she will be able to sell the farm and fund her four-year-old daughter’s badly needed medical treatment. With grim determination, Molly teaches herself basic...

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Elinor Florence

Ein Lied für meine Tochter

Джоди Пиколт

Ein Lied für meine Tochter

Der neue Bestseller von Jodi Picoult! «Nach fünf künstlichen Befruchtungen – sowohl mit frischem als auch mit gefrorenem Sperma – haben wir unsere gesamten Ersparnisse aufgebraucht, und unsere Kreditkarten sind am Anschlag.» Als ihre Ehe mit Max zerbricht, findet Zoe Trost in der Musik. Durch ihre Arbeit als Musiktherapeutin lernt sie Vanessa kennen. Aus der Freundschaft zwischen den beiden Frauen wird bald Liebe. Zoe will ihr Leben mit Vanessa teilen. Die beiden Frauen träumen von einem...

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