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  • The Velveteen Daughter
    The Velveteen Daughter
    by Laurel D. Huber
    Paperback: Jul 2017
     
    The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: Margery Williams Bianco, the author of one of the most beloved children's books of all time - The Velveteen Rabbit - and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned ...
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  • The Vendetta Defense
    The Vendetta Defense
    by Lisa Scottoline
    Hardcover: Feb 2001
    Paperback: Mar 2002
     
    In a case steeped in blood and memory, it will take a stroke of brilliance to save Pigeon Tony. But if anyone just might see justice done, it's this gutsy young attorney who'll risk everything to win ... including her life.
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  • Veronica
    Veronica
    by Mary Gaitskill
    Hardcover: Oct 2005
    Paperback: Jul 2006
     
    Masterfully layering time and space, thought and sensation, Mary Gaitskill dazzles the reader with psychological insight and a mystical sense of the soul's hurtling passage through the world.
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  • The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
    The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
    by Bart Yates
    Hardcover: Jul 2024
     
    Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and fiction in a surprising, thought-provoking saga spanning 12 significant days across nearly 100 years in the life of a single man, beginning in 1920s ...
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  • Victoria
    Victoria
    by Daisy Goodwin
    Hardcover: Nov 2016
    Paperback: Sep 2017
     
    Drawing on Queen Victoria's diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin—creator and writer of the new PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria and author of the bestselling novels&...
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  • The View from Castle Rock
    The View from Castle Rock : Stories
    by Alice Munro
    Hardcover: Nov 2006
    Paperback: Jan 2008
     
    A powerful new collection from one of our most beloved, admired, and honored writers.
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  • The Villa
    The Villa : A Novel
    by Rachel Hawkins
    Hardcover: Jan 2023
    Paperback: Nov 2023
     
    From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware.
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  • Vine of Desire
    Vine of Desire
    by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    Hardcover: Jan 2002
    Paperback: Feb 2003
     
    A moving and satisfying sequel to Sister of My Heart, The Vine of Desire stands on its own as a novel of extraordinary depth and sensitivity.
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