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Fifty-year-old Alice Howland, a Harvard professor of cognitive psychology, is at the top of her game. Her kids are grown, her marriage secure, her career on fire, when after mere months of forgetfulness she finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of early onset Alzheimer's disease. With no cure or treatment, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self slips away. Without memory or hope, she is forced...
2) 13 1/2
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311 pages ; 25 cm
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In present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life until she encounters architect Marshall Marchand, a lifelong bachelor who spends most of his time with his brother Danny. When Polly's two young daughters from her previous marriage are likewise taken with Marshall, she marries him. But then an ominous prediction by a New Orleans tarot card reader proclaims that Polly will murder her husband, and...
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308 pages ; 24 cm
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"This rollicking book has it all: sex, lies, and scenery. Grant Ginder weaves a wonderful, engrossing multi-generational family story, with the Greek isles as a backdrop so beautiful that the reader will want to dive in." -- Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers An irresistible, deftly observed novel about family, regret, and vacation by the author of The People We Hate at the Wedding The Wright family...
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477 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
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Theology professor Anne Waverly is sent undercover by the FBI to infiltrate a religious cult in California. Initially ill-disposed to cults--her husband and daughter died in a mass suicide in Texas--Waverly discovers an organization genuinely devoted to rehabilitating troubled youth and even finds love. But as she rises to a top post in the cult's administration, an unpleasant surprise awaits her. By the author of With Child.
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229 pages ; 22 cm
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"As an adjunct professor of English with a draining and tedious courseload, Dorothy feels "like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had no idea what else to do but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise." No one but her partner knows that she's just had a miscarriage, not even her therapists - Dorothy being the kind of person who begins seeing a second because she's too conflict-averse to break things...
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357 pages ; 24 cm.
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"A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises -- and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself ... In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad -- long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter -- grapples with a life turned upside down. After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent...
12) Three women
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309 pages ; 25 cm
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A novel on an unusual household in our day and age, three generations of women living together in Boston. They are a lawyer who owns the house, her ailing mother--the mother had no time for the lawyer before she fell ill--and the lawyer's daughter, unemployed and on drugs.
13) I am watching
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"From a distance, they seem to be sleeping. Three bodies, sitting propped up against the ancient stones of Hadrian's Wall. A closer look reveals the horror of their too-white faces, and the ring of vivid red bruises around each neck. The victims were found by schoolgirl Isla Bell, out on an early morning run along the historic site. That day changed the small, close-knit community of Briganton forever, and it also shaped the course of Isla's life....
14) Hex
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215 pages ; 22 cm
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"Nell Barber, an expelled PhD candidate in Biological Science, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote. Her mentor, Dr. Joan Kallas, preoccupies her thoughts. Nell frequently finds herself standing in the doorway to Joan's office despite herself. Surrounded by an ex, a best friend, a boyfriend, and a husband, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships, grudges, and obsessions. The six are...
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"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident -- which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster -- a 60-year-old human rights scholar -- hits the car of Evelyn Ortega -- a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala -- in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen...
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"I should imagine this was murder, too, because it would be very difficult to build yourself into a heap of sandbags and then die…"
In the blackout conditions of a wintry London night, amateur sleuth Agnes Kinghof and a young air-raid warden have stumbled upon a corpse stowed in the walls of their street's bomb shelter. As the police begin their investigation, the night is interrupted once again when Agnes' upstairs neighbour, Mrs. Sibley is terrorised...
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Precocious Lois. Pretty Carly May. At twelve years old, they were kidnapped, driven across the country, and held in an Adirondack hunting lodge for two months. These two girls who previously did not know each other shared an experience that would shape all their days to come. Now Lois teaches British literature at a small college in upstate New York. Carly May is an actress in Los Angeles. When a movie script apparently based on their experience surfaces,...
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