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Parts North by Kevin Cohen
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Dec 13, 2011
A desperate man gets drawn back into a world he hoped to escape in this bleak character study.
The Last of the Pascagoula by Rebecca Meredith
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Nov 15, 2011
Meredith’s coming-of-age novel tells the story of a young woman who, in the wake of her mother’s death, befriends a couple of small town outsiders with whom she forms an important bond. Read On
The Spectacular Simon Burchwood
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Sep 06, 2011
Determined to reassemble reclaim his shattered life, Simon and a pair of oddball sidekicks embark on a quest to answer the “question of all questions”: Why is life so hard? Read On
The Meteoric Rise of Simon Burchwood
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May 26, 2011
Weaves a heartrending portrait of lowered expectation: of a man eschewing, and ultimately embracing, mediocrity. Read On
Glorify Each Day
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Apr 20, 2011
Tommy Morrison is too complex a guy for his own good and the story he tells reflects the depth of his complexity. Read On
A Secret of the Universe
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Feb 21, 2011
In delving into the depths of human nature and rationality as few have before, A Secret of the Universe provides a new take on the battle between faith and skepticism for the post-9/11 world.
A Very Rich Man
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A wealthy and socially prominent family reunites in the wake of a father’s aneurysm, and all hell breaks loose as a brother and sister uncover a wealth of secrets about their father’s past.
A Multitude of Mercies
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Feb 10, 2011
A gut-wrenchingly honest look at a family dealing with schizophrenia, A Multitude of Mercies travels from the depths of despair to the ultimate triumph of love and acceptance. Read On
Able Was I
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Able Was I begins by introducing us to Grey Tigrett, an American college student tooling around Italy for a summer before graduation. On the island of Elba (yes, Napoleon’s Elba) Grey, who came to the island with a longtime girlfriend, has a brief but significant amorous encounter with an Italian man named Antonio.
The Life of O’Reilly
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Feb 04, 2011
Nick O’Reilly is a 36-year-old partner in a prestigious Manhattan law firm. Though he’s devoted to his legal career, there’s a side of O’Reilly that knows, even at the onset of this emotionally suspenseful novel, that all is not right with his world. Read On
