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**Soon to be appearing on Netflix as "Obsession," starring Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy**
This New York Times bestselling novel, now in a brand-new edition, is a daring look at the dangers of obsession and the depth of its shattering consequences.
Damage is the gripping story of a man's desperate obsession and scandalous love affair. He is a man who appears to have everything: wealth, a beautiful wife and children, and a prestigious political...
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After a five-year stint in prison, John Sheldon returns home a different man, committed to Christ, but while his son Billy is delighted, his wife Andrea is wary, his daughter Rebekah is skeptical, and his six-year-old daughter Phoebe does not remember her father.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"-as long as they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged father. Cynthia, however, doesn't understand how Frances can ignore the past their father's presence revives,...
9) Everyman
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An unnamed man recounts his own life, from a sickly boy concerned with his own health, to becoming a father, an advertising man, a philanderer, and a deteriorating old man.
10) Caught
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Missing volume 5
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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When Jonah and Katherine travel to early 1900s Switzerland and Serbia to return Albert Einstein's daughter, Lieserl, to history, her mother Mileva grasps entirely too much about time travel and has no intention of letting her daughter go.
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In the small river town of La Luna, Louisiana, Calla Lily Ponder enjoys a blissful childhood at her mother's side, learns the art of healing through the humble womanly art of "fixing hair," and encounters first love with a boy named Tuck. When Tuck leaves her, Calla transforms her sorrow into inspiration and heads for the wild and colorful city of New Orleans--where she realizes the full power of her "healing hands" and Tuck presents her with an offer...
12) Before and after
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Relates the story of a New England family's struggle to survive the throes of tragedy.
13) The letter
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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The third book of the "Christmas Box" collection, telling the story of the love between David and MaryAnne Parkin, and following David's quest to find his mother, a woman whose abandonment had a devastating impact on David's life.
14) Jenny Rose
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When Claire returns to her family's estate in Ireland, she learns that years earlier her sister had traveled there to have an illegitimate child, and when Claire arrives, she gets the chance to meet the niece she never knew she had.
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Kwan moves from China to live with her family in San Francisco and develops a relationship with her half sister Olivia. She confides in Olivia about the ghosts she hears telling her about love. Years later Kwan and her ghosts advise Olivia about her marriage.
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As Veblen and Paul struggle to make it to their wedding day in one piece, they grapple with staying true to their ideals in life and work, dealing with dysfunctional parents, a seductive pharmaceutical heiress, and a very charismatic squirrel. "A dazzlingly original novel about love and family, war and nature, set amid a California culture clash of new money and antiestablishment values." -- provided by publisher.
17) Saint maybe
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In 1965 the Bedloe family lives on a quiet street in Baltimore. Seventeen-year-old Ian has dreams for the future, until the night when he meddles in his older brother's life--and from that careless moment on, nothing can ever be the same.
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The death of Vernon Proctor, the oldest of three illiterate brothers living on primitive farm in upstate New York, sets off a wave of suspicion and accusations in the community, and complicates the work of state trooper Del Graham, who must look at Creed and the feeble-minded Audie as suspects.
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The lives of three people--Francine, a child who hears her mother's murder while hiding in her room; Harriet, an aging beauty who seeks out handymen to ease her boredom; and Teddy, a young man who had been ignored by his parents since birth--converge with harrowing results.
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