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|  | How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
Description not available.The author of The Corrections reprints his 1996, The Harper's Essay, offering additional writings that consider a central theme of the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the increasing persistence of loneliness in postmodern America. 30,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Jonathan Franzen
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Undercurrents by Linda Coverdale, Marie Darrieussecq
In this novel by a respected French writer, the relationship between a woman and her young daughter is paramount, and things are not what they seem--particularly the eerie setting in a deserted resort town by the ocean. AUTHOR: Linda Coverdale, Marie Darrieussecq
PUBLISHER: New Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Are We Living in the End Times? by Jerry B. Jenkins
The authors of the bestselling LEFT BEHIND series put their prophecy on paper in non-fiction format. They discuss why they feel that the end of time is close at hand, offering a study of signs to support their belief. AUTHOR: Jerry B. Jenkins
PUBLISHER: Tyndale House Publishers
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | Stories from a Ming Collection by Cyril Birch
The popularity of the Chinese story-teller goes back to the market place of the T'ang dynasty, but the familiar figure came into his own in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and his audience included not only the populace but men of leisure and the Emperor as well. This selection of six stories from Feng Meng-lung's collection includes representative types of the story-teller's traditional art. AUTHOR: Cyril Birch
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Surrendering to Love by Rosemary Rogers
Many men may pursue Alexa Howard`s exotic beauty, but there is only one man to whom she will give herself willingly, body and soul. Though Nicholas de la Guerra sparks fury and desire in her equally, she is lost to his touch. The dark stranger is her obsession...a temptation to which she longs to surrender. And when Alexa`s safety is threatened, Nicholas becomes her only chance at salvation. AUTHOR: Rosemary Rogers
PUBLISHER: Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst, Stephen Thorne
In 1938, just after Hitler annexes Austria, suave man-about-town Nicholas Morath is asked by his Hungarian uncle to leave Paris and undertake a series of clandestine missions to Eastern Europe. Four novellas chronicle Nicholas's adventures as he tries to do his bit to change Hungary's increasingly ominous future. AUTHOR: Alan Furst, Stephen Thorne
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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