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  Every Last One

  by Anna Quindlen

  In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a family, and the explosive, violent consequences of what seem like inconsequential actions.   Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of... (more)
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  Precious: A Novel

  by Sandra Novack

  The summer of 1978, ten-year-old Vicki Anderson rides her bike to the local park and goes missing. Her tight-knit blue-collar Pennsylvania neighborhood, where children roam the streets at night playing lightning tag, aboveground pools sparkle in backyards, and flowers scent the air, will never be the same. Down the street from Vicki’s house, another family is in crisis. Troubled by her past, headstrong Natalia... (more)
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  The Devil Is a Lie

  by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

  As Luck Would Have It... 4-7-14-17-21-25. Those numbers, printed on a slim paper ticket, are about to change the lives of two couples, lovers past and present, in Houston. When Nina Lawson wins $16 million in the Texas Lotto, the real estate executive and her fiancé, personal trainer Rick Henderson, ecstatically begin planning their future -- from paying off their credit card debt, to setting their wedding... (more)
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  Freefall

  America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

  by Joseph E. Stiglitz

  Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz explains the current financial crisis—and the coming global economic order. The current global financial crisis carries a “made-in-America” label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ineffective... (more)
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  Thursday Night Widows

  by Claudia Piñeiro

  "An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"—José Saramago The English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves ! Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house. Behind the locked gates, shielded from the crime,... (more)
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  Fault Lines

  How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

  by Raghuram G. Rajan

  Economist Raghuram Rajan warned about the global financial crisis long before it hit, but few listened. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame the crisis on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines , Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis... (more)
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  Lady Jasmine

  by Victoria Christopher Murray

  Juicy Jasmine Larson Bush is at it again -- battling her past in order to save her future. With her own lies, she nearly destroyed her marriage to Pastor Hosea Bush. Why, Jasmine was forced to reveal every secret she'd ever kept from her husband, right down to her real age, weight, and shoe size! She thought she had told Hosea everything. But when Jasmine is blackmailed with a terrible truth from her past that... (more)
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  Secrets and Lies

  by Rhonda McKnight

  Faith Morgan is struggling with her faith. Years of poor communication and neglect leave her doubting that God will ever fix her marriage. When a coworker accuses her husband, Jonah, of the unthinkable, Faith begins to wonder if she really knows him at all, and if it's truly in God's will for them to stay married. Pediatric cardiologist Jonah Morgan is obsessed with one thing: his work. A childhood incident... (more)
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  Crisis on Infinite Earths

  by Marv Wolfman, George Perez

  Marv Wolfman is the former Editor-In-Chief of Marvel Comics. He is a longtime comic writer who had long runs on Tomb of Dracula for Marvel, which is where Blade the Vampire Hunter made his first appearance and New Teen Titans for DC Comics. Blade was later adapted to film form with Wesley Snipes in the starring role. Wrote the landmark DC Comic series Crisis on Infinite Earths. Created the character 'Bullseye' for... (more)
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  Attaining the Worlds Beyond: A Guide to Spiritual Discovery (Unabridged)

  by Michael Laitman

  Late in the evening in September 1991, a notebook was passed to Michael Laitman containing the transcripts from one of the greatest Kabbalists of all time. For thousands of years the secrets of Kabbalah have been guarded from the eyes of strangers and are only to be revealed at certain times. The time has come to unveil the secrets that provide the answer to the question all men in all times have asked themselves:... (more)
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  My Sister's Keeper

  by Jodi Picoult

  New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her... (more)
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  The Deep End of the Ocean (Oprah's Book Club)

  by Jacquelyn Mitchard

  A #1 New York Times bestseller, Mitchard's suspenseful and moving novel is now available in trade paperback Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story--a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every mother's worst nightmare--the... (more)
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  Prayers for Bobby

  A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son

  by Leroy Aarons

  Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was "wrong"-Bobby chose to take his own life. Prayers for Bobby , nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of Bobby's mother, a fearful churchgoer... (more)
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  Final Crisis

  by Grant Morrison

  Best-selling writer Grant Morrison (BATMAN, ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, JLA) and critically acclaimed artist J.G. Jones (52, Wanted) redefine what it means to be a modern day Super Hero in this cosmic epic. Final Crisis (collects Final Crisis #1-7, "Final Crisis Superman Beyond" #1-2, and "Final Crisis: Submit", 352 pages, hardcover What happens when evil wins? That's the question Superman, Batman, the Justice League and... (more)
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  Hero.com: Book 3

  Crisis Point

  by Andy Briggs, Andy Briggs

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  Bail Yourself Out: How You Can Emerge Strong From the World Crisis

  by Michael Laitman

  Everything that exists is an outcome of interaction between two forces--giving and receiving. When they work in harmony, life flows peacefully in its course. When they collide, we must deal with calamities and crises of great magnitude, says Prof. Michael Laitman. These forces are at work in every aspect of life: family, economy, politics, ecology, and health. Bail Yourself Out: How You Can Emerge Strong from the... (more)
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  The Manual

  by Sherryle K Jackson

  Deidre Collins can't help but compare her fourteen-year-old son, DeAndre, to his father, who walked out of their lives eight years ago. Even after rededicating herself to the Lord, she's having a hard time forgiving and forgetting. Lately, she can't understand where the sweet child she raised has gone, replaced by this disobedient and disrespectful person. Lately, DeAndre keeps one foot in church and the other... (more)
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  Redemption Lake

  by Monique Miller

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  Zeitoun

  by Dave Eggers

  Dave Eggers, the award winning author of "What Is the What?", wrote this true account of lives altered after Hurricane Katrina. "Zeitoun" was written in close collaboration with its subjects and involved vast research — in this case, in the United States, Spain, and Syria.
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  Passages

  Predictable Crises of Adult Life

  by Gail Sheehy

  At last, this is your story. You'll recognize yourself, your friends, and your loves. You'll see how to use each life crisis as an opportunity for creative change -- to grow to your full potential. Gail Sheehy's brilliant road map of adult life shows the inevitable personality and sexual changes we go through in our 20s, 30s, 40s, and beyond. The Trying 20s -- The safety of home left behind, we begin trying on... (more)