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Title: When She Woke Author: Hillary Jordan Format: Kindle Pages: 368 Release Date: October 4, 2011 Publisher: Algonquin Books Source: ARC from publisher Read the back of the book Bellwether Prize winner Hillary Jordan’s provocative new novel, When She Woke, tells the story of a stigmatized woman struggling to navigate an America of a not-too-distant future, where the line between church and state has been
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Title: Sacré Bleu Author: Christopher Moore Format: Audio Audiobook length: 11 hrs 40 min Release Date: April 03, 2012 Publisher: Avon Source: personal copy Read the back of the book In July 1890, Vincent van Gogh went into a cornfield and shot himself. Or did he? Vincent’s friends, baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, have their doubts. Now they’re determined to answer the
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Title: The Next Best Thing Author: Jennifer Weiner Format: Kindle Pages: 400 Release Date: July 3, 2012 Publisher: Atria Books Source: ARC from publisher Read the back of the book Actors aren’t the only ones trying to make it in Hollywood.…At twenty-three, Ruth Saunders left her childhood home in Massachusetts and headed west with her seventy-year-old grandma in tow, hoping to make it as a screenwriter.
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Title: Deadlocked Author: Charlaine Harris Series: Sookie Stackhouse #12 Format: Audio Audiobook length: 9 hrs 29 min Release Date: May 01, 2012 Publisher: Ace Source: personal copy Read the back of the book It’s vampire politics as usual around the town of Bon Temps, but never before have they hit so close to Sookie’s heart… Growing up with telepathic abilities, Sookie Stackhouse realized early on
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