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In the spirit of Tiny Beautiful Things and How to Be a Woman comes a collection of new, unpublished letters and advice by Heather Havrilesky, the author of the popular advice column Ask Polly featured
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The companion novel to Kate Atkinson's number one Sunday Times bestseller Life After Life. Kate Atkinson’s dazzling Life After Life, the bestselling explored the possibility of infinite chances, as U
Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster o
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"George Weigel completes the definitive biography of Pope John Paul II with this indispensable second volume. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the man and the Church he led
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