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Summary: A young girl faces the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend. Over one haunted summer, Nico must face that life-changing moment when children realize...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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Summary: "The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children's musical. Mister Monkey--a screwball children's musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee--is the kind of family favorite that survives far...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: While working for an idealistic college professor, twenty-six-year old Lula, an Albanian trying to make a better life for herself in America, finds her life taking a complicated turn when her Albanian "brothers" return, in a novel set in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011
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Summary: In 1953 at a distinguished New York publishing firm, Simon Putnam, a recent Harvard graduate, is tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg--a project that makes him realize that the people around him are not what they seem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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Summary: "A richly imagined and stunningly inventive story of love, art, and betrayal in Paris of the 20's, 30's, and 40's"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1981
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Summary: How do women treat one another in the absence of men to treat them badly? Martha, the protagonist, finds out when after a bust-up with her boyfriend she joins devotees of a matriarchal goddess in a New Age boot camp in the Arizona desert. A satire on New Age religion and knee-jerk feminism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1995