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Title: The Sea Is My Brother Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Hardback Pages: 240 Release Date: March 20, 2012 Publisher: Da Capo Press Source: library Read the back of the book In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the Merchant Marine, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled
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Title: The Night Circus Author: Erin Morgenstern Format: Kindle Pages: 401 Release Date: September 13, 2011 Publisher: Anchor Source: personal copy Read the back of the book The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque
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Title: The House I Loved Author: Tatiana de Rosnay Format: Kindle Pages: 239 Release Date: February 14, 2012 Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Source: personal copy Read the back of the book From Tatiana de Rosnay, the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah’s Key and A Secret Kept, comes The House I Loved, an absorbing new novel about one woman’s resistance during an époque that
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Title: The Cutting Season Author: Attica Locke Format: Kindle Pages: 384 Release Date: September 10, 2012 Publisher: Harper Source: ARC from Edelweiss Read the back of the book In Black Water Rising, Attica Locke delivered one of the most stunning and sure-handed fiction debuts in recent memory, garnering effusive critical praise, several award nominations, and passionate reader response. Now Locke returns with The Cutting Season,
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