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The Parliament

By: Aimee Pokwatka

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The Birds meets The Princess Bride in this tale of friendship, responsibility, and the primal force of nature. “Murder owls are extreme,” Jude said. “What’s more extreme than murder owls?” Madigan Purdy is stuck in her home town library. When tens of thousands of owls descend on the building, rending and tearing at anyone foolish enough to step outside, Mad is tasked with keeping her students safe, and distracted, while they seek a solution to their dilemma. Perhaps they’ll find the inspiration they seek in her favorite childhood book, The Silent Queen.... With food and fresh water in low supply, the denizens of the library will have to find a way out, and soon, but the owls don’t seem to be in a hurry to leave... The Parliament is a story of grief and missed opportunities, but also of courage and hope. And of extremely sharp beaks. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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1250820987

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9781250820983

Harlequin Intrigue August 2013 - Bundle 2 of 2

Smoky Ridge Curse\Ruthless\Falcon's Run

By: Paula Graves,HelenKay Dimon,Aimee Thurlo

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Harlequin Intrigue August 2013 - Bundle 2 of 2

Smoky Ridge Curse\Ruthless\Falcon's Run

By: Paula Graves,HelenKay Dimon,Aimee Thurlo

Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new edge-of-your-seat romances for one great price, available now for a limited time only from August 1 to August 31! This Harlequin Intrigue bundle includes Smoky Ridge Curse by Paula Graves, Ruthless by HelenKay Dimon and Falcon's Run by Aimée Thurlo. Catch a thrill with 6 new edge-of-your-seat romances every month from Harlequin Intrigue!

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1459254643

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9781459254640

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

By: Aimee Bender

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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

By: Aimee Bender

On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the slice. To her horror, she finds that her cheerful mother tastes of despair. Soon, she’s privy to the secret knowledge that most families keep hidden: her father’s detachment, her mother’s transgression, her brother’s increasing retreat from the world. But there are some family secrets that even her cursed taste buds can’t discern.

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0385720963

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9780385720960

Self-Portrait with Nothing

By: Aimee Pokwatka

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Self-Portrait with Nothing

By: Aimee Pokwatka

Orphan Black meets Fringe in a story that reminds us that living our best life sometimes means embracing the imperfect one we already have. "Fraught and deeply moving...the work of a genuinely exciting new talent." —Booker Prize winner, George Saunders. “Aimee Pokwatka’s Self-Portrait with Nothing is tantalizing and elusive lacework, delicately balanced between the branches of fantasy, mystery and realism like a spider’s web.” —The New York Times If a picture paints a thousand worlds . . . Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian’s front porch, Pepper Rafferty was raised by two loving mothers, and now, at thirty-six is married to the stable, supportive Ike. She’s never told anyone that at fifteen she discovered the identity of her biological mother. That’s because her birth mother is Ula Frost, a reclusive painter famous for the outrageous claims that her portraits summon their subjects’ doppelgängers from parallel universes. Researching the rumors, Pepper couldn’t help but wonder: Is there a parallel universe in which she is more confident, more accomplished, better able to accept love? A universe in which Ula decided she was worth keeping? A universe in which Ula’s rejection didn’t still hurt too much to share? Combining a thrilling pan-continental race against time with an authentic and touching personal drama, Self-Portrait with Nothing is an unforgettable debut that explores what it means to be part of a family. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Tordotcom

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1250820855

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9781250820853

Broken Pedestal

By: Aimee Leon

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Broken Pedestal

By: Aimee Leon

Judge Matthew Grayson stands on an uncompromising pedestal of integrity. No excuses for disobeying the law are to be tolerated, until his beloved wife Debra disappears. Then, all bets are off. He will commit any crime to get her back. As Debra, victim of a foiled kidnapping plot awakens in the hospital she hears voices talking about harvesting her organs. Suffering from amnesia, she has no document to identify her. She manages to escape and, as her memory slowly returns, has to resort to extraordinary measures to survive in ways hitherto undreamed of in her previous life of luxury, where her only concerns were the well-being of her husband and stepchildren, Ellen and Neil. If she finds her way home, Matthew will have to wrestle with his conscience. Due to hisnefarious activities while searching for her, he discovers that the man accused of kidnapping her is innocent. But ifhe tells the authorities what he knows he'll be incarcerated, a risk he can't afford to take until he finds Debra. Then, if reunited, will he allow an innocent man to pay for a crime Matthew knows he didn't commit? And if she tells him of her horrifying experiences, after she's suffered so much, can he risk going to prison and abandoning her? Or his children, who suffered equally as they searched for their beloved stepmother?

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462871534

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9781462871537

Aloha Lagoon Mysteries Boxed Set Vol. II (Books 4-6)

By: Catherine Bruns,Mary Jo Burke,Aimee Gilchrist

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Aloha Lagoon Mysteries Boxed Set Vol. II (Books 4-6)

By: Catherine Bruns,Mary Jo Burke,Aimee Gilchrist

Take a vacation at the most "killer" resort in Hawaii—Aloha Lagoon! Enjoy this beach-read boxed set of three, full-length cozy mystery novels in the Aloha Lagoon Mysteries series by USA Today bestselling and award winning authors, including: Deadly Bubbles in the Wine by Mary Jo Burke After Simone Ryan is stood up at the altar by her fiancé, Elliott, she decides to enjoy her would-be honeymoon in paradise alone. She checks into the Aloha Lagoon Resort's bridal suite and promptly begins to drown her sorrows in champagne. But when Elliott's body suddenly turns up at the resort, suddenly Simone finds herself not in the role of newlywed but prime murder suspect! Mele Kalikimaka Murder by Aimee Gilchrist The only thing that Aloha Lagoon Resort manager Charlotte Conner hates more than her employees working on "island time" is Christmas. It isn't just the over commercialized tripe, but it's also the fact that once-upon-a-time her Christmas would-be wedding went up in spectacular flames. But when her assistant turns up dead, it's up to her to hunt down the real murderer. Death of the Big Kahuna by Catherine Bruns New to both Hawaii and the Aloha Lagoon Resort, Carrie Jorgenson has big dreams of stardom. But while she awaits fame and fortune, she's forced to accept a job waitressing at the resort's The Loco Moco Café. It isn't long before she discovers the dish on her new boss—also known to many as "The Big Kahuna." Hale Akamu is rich, handsome, repulsive...and dead. The Aloha Lagoon Mysteries: Ukulele Murder (book #1) Murder on the Aloha Express (book #2) Deadly Wipeout (book #3) Deadly Bubbles in the Wine (book #4) Mele Kalikimaka Murder (book #5) Death of the Big Kahuna (book #6) Ukulele Deadly (book #7) Bikinis & Bloodshed (book #8) Death of the Kona Man (book #9) Lethal Tide (book #10) "If you like your mysteries on the fun side this is definitely one for you." —Night Owl Reviews "Engaging and enjoyable...and the killer was a huge surprise!" —StoreyBook Reviews About Aloha Lagoon: Welcome to Aloha Lagoon, one of Hawaii's hidden treasures. A little bit of tropical paradise nestled along the coast of Kauai, this resort town boasts luxurious accommodation, friendly island atmosphere...and only a slightly higher than normal murder rate. While mysterious circumstances may be the norm on our corner of the island, we're certain that our staff and Lagoon natives will make your stay in Aloha Lagoon one you will never forget! visit us at alohalagoonmysteries.com

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Gemma Halliday Publishing

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1947110330

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The Color Master

Stories

By: Aimee Bender

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The Color Master

Stories

By: Aimee Bender

The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories. Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and gorgeously strange” (People), “richly imagined and bittersweet” (Vanity Fair), and “full of provocative ideas” (The Boston Globe). In her deft hands, “relationships and mundane activities take on mythic qualities” (The Wall Street Journal). In this collection, Bender’s unique talents sparkle brilliantly in stories about people searching for connection through love, sex, and family—while navigating the often painful realities of their lives. A traumatic event unfolds when a girl with flowing hair of golden wheat appears in an apple orchard, where a group of people await her. A woman plays out a prostitution fantasy with her husband and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life. An ugly woman marries an ogre and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he mistakenly eats their children. Two sisters travel deep into Malaysia, where one learns the art of mending tigers who have been ripped to shreds. In these deeply resonant stories—evocative, funny, beautiful, and sad—we see ourselves reflected as if in a funhouse mirror. Aimee Bender has once again proven herself to be among the most imaginative, exciting, and intelligent writers of our time.

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0385534906

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9780385534901

An Invisible Sign of My Own

A Novel

By: Aimee Bender

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An Invisible Sign of My Own

A Novel

By: Aimee Bender

Aimee Bender’s stunning debut collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, proved her to be one of the freshest voices in American fiction. Now, in her first novel, she builds on that early promise. Mona Gray was ten when her father contracted a mysterious illness and she became a quitter, abandoning each of her talents just as pleasure became intense. The only thing she can’t stop doing is math: She knocks on wood, adds her steps, and multiplies people in the park against one another. When Mona begins teaching math to second-graders, she finds a ready audience. But the difficult and wonderful facts of life keep intruding. She finds herself drawn to the new science teacher, who has an unnerving way of seeing through her intricately built façade. Bender brilliantly directs her characters, giving them unexpected emotional depth and setting them in a calamitous world, both fancifully surreal and startlingly familiar. BONUS MATERIAL: This edition includes an excerpt from Aimee Bender's The Color Master.

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030780447X

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9780307804471

Willful Creatures

By: Aimee Bender

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Willful Creatures

By: Aimee Bender

Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." --The New York Times Book Review Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotion, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition.

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0307493253

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9780307493255

Ibiza Insanity (Summer Flings, Book 5)

By: Aimee Duffy

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Ibiza Insanity (Summer Flings, Book 5)

By: Aimee Duffy

Part 5 of Summer Flings – a fun, flirty and laugh out loud rom com series of short stories.

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HarperCollins UK

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0008106304

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Misbehaving in Miami (Summer Flings, Book 2)

By: Aimee Duffy

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Misbehaving in Miami (Summer Flings, Book 2)

By: Aimee Duffy

Part 2 of Summer Flings – a fun, flirty and laugh out loud rom com series of short stories.

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0008106274

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Trouble in Tinseltown (Summer Flings, Book 1)

By: Aimee Duffy

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Trouble in Tinseltown (Summer Flings, Book 1)

By: Aimee Duffy

Part 1 of Summer Flings – a fun, flirty and laugh out loud rom com series of short stories.

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0008106266

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The Secret Society of Demolition Writers

Stories

By: Aimee Bender,Benjamin Cheever,Michael Connelly,Sebastian Junger

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The Secret Society of Demolition Writers

Stories

By: Aimee Bender,Benjamin Cheever,Michael Connelly,Sebastian Junger

What would you write if no one knew who you were? In the spirit of the demolition derby, where drivers take heedless risks with reckless abandon, welcome to the first convocation of the Secret Society of Demolition Writers. Here is a one-of-a-kind collection by famous authors writing anonymously–and dangerously. With the usual concerns about reputations and renown cast aside, these twelve daredevils have each contributed an extreme, no-holds-barred unsigned story, each shining as brightly and urgently as hazard lights. Unconventional and unapologetic, this publishing equivalent of a whodunit features an eclectic group of fictional characters, including a delusional schizophrenic narrator, an egg donor with second thoughts about her decision, a pharmacist who forms a weird crush on a woman who beat both of her parents to death, and a little girl who understands that an old safe is the threshold to another, ghostly, world. Equally diverse and surprising are the authors themselves: Aimee Bender, Benjamin Cheever, Michael Connelly, Sebastian Junger, Elizabeth McCracken, Rosie O’Donnell, Chris Offutt, Anna Quindlen, John Burnham Schwartz, Alice Sebold, Lauren Slater, and Marc Parent, the editor of the collection. Never before has such a wide-ranging and talented group of authors been assembled to such explosive and entertaining effect. The Secret Society of Demolition Writers is an intriguing puzzle in itself, but it’s also an important addition to the careers of some of our finest storytellers–even if we never really know who wrote what. Its boundary-smashing fiction offers exhilarating proof that for an artist, withholding your identity can mean gaining your freedom.

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Random House

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0307432629

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9780307432629

The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

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By: Aimee Bender

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The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

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By: Aimee Bender

A collection of wistful, witty stories." --Esquire "Hilarious, deep and a little bit dirty." --Harper's Bazaar A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows a strange man home, seeking total sexual abandon: He only wants to watch game shows. A woman falls in love with a hunchback; when his deformity turns out to be a prosthesis, she leaves him. A wife whose husband has just returned from the war struggles with the heartrending question: Can she still love a man who has no lips? Aimee Bender's stories portray a world twisted on its axis, a place of unconvention that resembles nothing so much as real life, in all its grotesque, beautiful glory. From the first line of each tale she lets us know she is telling a story, but the moral is never quite what we expect. Bender's prose is glorious: musical and colloquial, inimitable and heartrending. Here are stories of men and women whose lives are shaped--and sometimes twisted--by the power of extraordinary desires, erotic and otherwise. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt is the debut of a major American writer. A 1998 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best works of fiction of 1998.

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0307804461

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Silent Women

Pioneers of Cinema

By: Kevin Brownlow,Shelley Stamp,Bryony Dixon,Karen Day,Maria Giese,Tania Field,Francesca Stephens,Ellen Cheshire,K. Charlie Oughton,Patricia di Risio,Pieter Aquilia,Julie K Allen,Aimee Dixon Anthony

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Silent Women

Pioneers of Cinema

By: Kevin Brownlow,Shelley Stamp,Bryony Dixon,Karen Day,Maria Giese,Tania Field,Francesca Stephens,Ellen Cheshire,K. Charlie Oughton,Patricia di Risio,Pieter Aquilia,Julie K Allen,Aimee Dixon Anthony

The first ever overview of women's contributions to the dawn of cinema looking at a variety of roles from writers and directors to film editors and critics. Why have women such as Alice Guy-Blache, the creator of narrative cinema, been written out of film history? Why have so many women working behind the scenes in film been rendered invisible and silent for so long? Silent Women, pioneers of cinema explores the incredible contribution of women at the dawn of cinema when, surprisingly, more women were employed across the board in the film industry than they are now. It also looks at how women helped to shape the content, style of acting and development of the movie business in their roles as actors, writers, editors, cinematographers, directors and producers. In addition, we describe how women engaged with and influenced the development of cinema in their roles as audience, critics, fans, reviewers, journalists and the arbiters of morality in films. And finally, we ask when the current discrimination and male domination of the industry will give way to allow more women access to the top jobs. In addition to its historical focus on women working in film during the silent film era, the term silent also refers to the silencing and eradication of the enormous contribution that women have made to the development of the motion picture industry. “The surprise of the essays collected here is their sheer volume in every corner of a business apparently better able to accommodate female talent then than now..” Danny Leigh, Financial Times, July 2016 “ It's a fascinating journey into the untold history of a largely lost era of film..” Greg Jameson, Entertainment Focus, March 2016 "This book shows how women's voices were heard and helped create the golden age of silent cinema, how those voices were almost eradicated by the male-dominated film industry, and perhaps points the way to an all-inclusive future for global cinema..” Paul Duncan, Film Historian “Inspirational and informative, Silent Women will challenge many people's ideas about the beginnings of film history. This fascinating book roams widely across the era and the diverse achievements and voices of women in the film industry. These are the stories of pioneers, trailblazers and collaborators - hugely enjoyable to read and vitally important to publish.” Pamela Hutchinson, Silent London “Every page begs the question - how on earth did these amazing women vanish from history in the first place? I defy anyone interested in cinema history not to find this valuable compendium a must-read. It's also a call to arms for more research into women's contribution and an affirmation of just how rewarding the detective work can be.” Laraine Porter, Co-Artistic Director of British Silent Film Festival “An authoritative and illuminating work, it also lends a pervasive voice to the argument that discrimination and not talent is the barrier to so few women occupying the most prominent roles within the industry." Jason Wood, Author and Visiting Professor at MMU “I was amazed to discover just how crucially they were involved from not just in front of the camera but in producing, directing, editing and much, much more. An essential read.” Neil McGlone. The Criterion Collection

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Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.

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0993220703

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9780993220708

Mistletoe

By: Hailey Abbott,Aimee Friedman,Nina Malkin,Melissa De la Cruz

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Mistletoe

By: Hailey Abbott,Aimee Friedman,Nina Malkin,Melissa De la Cruz

Contains four stories about teenage romance during the holiday season.

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Scholastic Paperbacks

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0439863686

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9780439863681

The Reeducation of Cherry Truong

A Novel

By: Aimee Phan

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The Reeducation of Cherry Truong

A Novel

By: Aimee Phan

When her brother is exiled to live with distant relatives in Vietnam, a young woman journeys to her family's homeland to bring him back and uncovers mysteries about secret loves, desperate choices, and the human consequences of war.

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Macmillan

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0312322682

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9780312322687

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