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|  | Tender Is the Night by Charles Scribner, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set in the hedonistic expatriate world of the French Riviera in the late 1920s, this novel focuses on the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver, and on the tragic obsession of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt. The Divers' relationship (including Nicole's mental illness) contains numerous parallels to the troubled marriage of the Fitzgeralds, although the downfall of the real-life couple was neither so neat nor so definitive as the failures of the Divers. The protagonists have also been associated with Sara and Gerald Murphy, legendary hosts of the period, famous for their wealth and kindness--and the double portrait was seen by many as a betrayal of friendship. AUTHOR: Charles Scribner, F. Scott Fitzgerald
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction 
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 | Hold the Cream Cheese and Kill the Lox by Sharon Kahn
Description not available.When the murder of a lox cutter wreaks havoc with a double bar mitzvah, Ruby traces the victim's past to Nazi-era Denmark and embarks on a chase that takes her from wintry Alaska's frozen salmon streams to a New Jersey smokehouse. 15,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Sharon Kahn
PUBLISHER: Scribner
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
Bellow's first published novel portrays the thoughts and discomforts of Joseph, a young man in Chicago who quits his job in expectation of being drafted into the army during World War II. A series of bureaucratic snafus holds up his induction, however, and he finds himself with nothing to do for nearly a year. DANGLING MAN is the journal of his fresh, empty days, full of insights into nearly every aspect of his world. AUTHOR: Saul Bellow
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Truth Seeker by Dee Henderson
In this Christian inspirational romance, forensic pathologist Lisa O'Malley helps local marshal Quinn Diamond to locate his father's murderer. AUTHOR: Dee Henderson
PUBLISHER: Multnomah Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | Summer of Betrayal: A Novel
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At dawn on the June morning in 1989 following the brutal repression of student demonstrations in Beijing, a young poet flees the bullets, tanks, and soldiers, trying desperately to get back to the flat she shares with her lover. When she discovers him in bed with his estranged wife, she must strike out again - and alone - into the maelstrom of terror and risk that Beijing has become. In the ensuing months, as she is all but overwhelmed by painful memories of the past and by the turmoil of the present, she goes through a kind of sea change: sexual freedom and erotic liberation seem to be the only freedoms left to her, but these, too, may lead to betrayal, and she must find her bearings on her own. This remarkable first novel by a striking young Chinese author is a lyrical, outspoken account of a major turning point in Chinese history, and a cri de coeur from the generation that instigated the bold initiatives of 1989 and suffered most from the cruelties that followed. Summer of Betrayal was published in Taiwan in 1992; though banned in China, it circulated widely there. This is its first publication in the West.
CATEGORY: Fiction
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 | The Lawn by Virginia Scott Jenkins
Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins traces the origin of the front lawn aesthetic, the development of the lawn-care industry, its environmental impact, and modern as well as historic alternatives to lawn mania. AUTHOR: Virginia Scott Jenkins
PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution Press
FORMAT: E-book
CATEGORY: Gardening
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