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1) Palomino
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After her husband walks out, a photographer visits a friend's horse ranch where she finds romance with a ranch hand and is partially paralyzed in an accident.
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Pub. Date
c2005
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Master storyteller Pablo Medina's The Cigar Roller is a radiant novel recounting the life of Cuban master cigar roller Amadeo Terra. A proud and capricious man, tobacco has been the center of Amadeo's life, the source of his passion. For his considerable talents with the leaves he had been forgiven a great number of sins. An imperious patriarch of enormous appetites, Amadeo now lies in a Florida hospital after a stroke looks back at his previously...
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Pub. Date
2001
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In the African-American community of East Liberty, Pittsburgh, Chris "Crest" Tolbert, an eighteen-year-old boy left paralyzed following a recent accident, struggles to come to terms with the long-term implications of his injuries and with the loss of his best friend in the same accident, while, around him, family, friends, and neighbors deal with the hard realities of everyday life.
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2012.
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The Master's Muse is an exquisite, deeply affecting novel about the love affair between two artistic legends: George Balanchine, widely considered the Shakespeare of dance, and his wife and muse, Tanny Le Clercq. A talented young ballerina whose dreams were coming true, Tanny was married to the love of her life, George Balanchine. She danced the best roles, and was featured in fashion magazines and television dramas. She socialized with renowned artists...
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Thorn novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[1997]
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Fisherman Thorn of Key Largo investigates the beheading of a dozen dolphins. He discovers it was the work of a professor who needed the heads for experiments, using veterans as guinea pigs. All highly illegal, but the prof is not about to surrender. By the author of Buzz Cut
6) Nestlings
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2023.
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When they win an apartment in the Deptford, one of Manhattan’s most revered buildings, new parents Ana and Reid get the lucky break they’ve been waiting for until disturbing events occur, unease and paranoia set in and needle-like bite marks appear on the baby.
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