Lafayette College Library

Recent additions to Skillman Library's browsing collection of new fiction and works of general interest.

Each month Skillman Library adds about 50 volumes to the Browsing Collection. The collection consists of new fiction and works of general interest in all subjects, and is shelved in the Drinkhouse Reading Room on the main level of the Library.

This page is updated periodically to reflect recent additions to the collection. For a list of all books currently available in the Browsing Collection, check the Library Catalog.

Additions to the collection, May 9, 2013 update:

The albino album : (a novel) / Chavisa Woods.
New York : Seven Stories Press, c2013.
PS3623.O6753 A79 2013.
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All that is : a novel / James Salter.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
PS3569.A4622 A44 2013.
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The Andalucian friend : a novel / Alexander Söderberg.
New York : Crown, c2013.
PT9877.29.O34 A5313 2013.
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The Arcadia project : North American postmodern pastoral / edited by Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep.
Boise, Idaho : Ahsahta Press, 2012.
PS593.P37 A73 2012.
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Assholes : a theory / Aaron James.
New York : Doubleday, c2012.
BJ1474 .J36 2012.
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The Athena doctrine : how women (and men who think like them) will rule the future / John Gerzema, Michael D'Antonio.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2013.
HD6054.3 .G39 2013.
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The aviator's wife : a novel / Melanie Benjamin.
New York : Delacorte Press, c2013.
PS3608.A876 A43 2013.
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The bankers' new clothes : what's wrong with banking and what to do about it / Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2013.
HG1586 .A23 2013.
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The best of the best American poetry / Robert Pinsky, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.
New York, NY : Scribner Poetry, 2013.
PS615 .B4755 2013x.
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Bible, gender, sexuality : reframing the church's debate on same-sex relationships / James V. Brownson.
Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2013.
BS680.H67 B76 2013.
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Bird of paradise : how I became Latina / Raquel Cepeda.
New York : Atria Books, c2013.
CT275.C383 A3 2013.
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The birth of an opera : fifteen masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck / Michael Rose.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2013.
MT95 .R67 2013.
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Bolívar : American liberator / Marie Arana.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
F2235.3 .A876 2013.
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The book of my lives / Aleksandar Hemon.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
PS3608.E48 B66 2013.
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Born on a mountaintop : on the road with Davy Crockett and the ghosts of the wild frontier / Bob Thompson.
New York : Crown Trade Group, [2012]. PUBLISHER = ©2012.
F436.C95 T54 2012.
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Capital of the world : the race to host the United Nations / Charlene Mires.
New York : New York University Press, [2013].
JZ4986 .M57 2013.
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The carriage house : a novel / Louisa Hall.
New York : Scribner, 2013.
PS3608.A54735 C37 2013.
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The cassoulet saved our marriage : true tales of food, family, and how we learn to eat / edited by Caroline M. Grant & Lisa Catherine Harper.
Boston : Roost Books, 2013.
TX714 .C3764 2013.
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Catching cancer : the quest for its viral and bacterial causes / Claudia Cornwall.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2013.
RC268.48 .C67 2013.
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Champion of choice : the life and legacy of women's advocate Nafis Sadik / Cathleen Miller.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013].
HQ1745.5.Z75 S236 2013.
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Cooked : a natural history of transformation / Michael Pollan.
New York : The Penguin Press, 2013.
TX652 .P646 2013.
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The cushion in the road : meditation and wandering as the whole world awakens to being in harm's way / Alice Walker.
New York : The New Press, 2013.
PS3573.A425 C87 2013.
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Damage control : stories / Amber Dermont.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
PS3604.E75455 D36 2013.
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The dance of the seagull / Andrea Camilleri ; translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
New York : Penguin Books, 2013.
PQ4863.A3894 D3613 2013.
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Darwin deleted : imagining a world without Darwin / Peter J. Bowler.
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013. PUBLISHER = ©2013.
QH361 .B675 2013.
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The demonologist / Andrew Pyper.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
PR9199.3.P96 D46 2013.
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The devouring dragon : how China's rise threatens our natural world / Craig Simons.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
GE190.C6 S55 2013.
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Dollars and sex : how economics influences sex and love / by Marina Adshade.
San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2013.
HM1106 .A334 2013.
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Don't go / Lisa Scottoline.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
PS3569.C725 D66 2013b.
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The drunken botanist : the plants that create the world's great drinks / by Amy Stewart.
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2013.
QK98.5.A1 S74 2013.
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Elegy owed / Bob Hicok.
Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, 2013.
PS3558.I28 E44 2013.
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The end of sex : how hookup culture is leaving a generation unhappy, sexually unfulfilled, and confused about intimacy / Donna Freitas.
New York : Basic Books, [2013].
HQ27 .F74 2013.
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The end of the point : a novel / Elizabeth Graver.
New York : Harper, c2013.
PS3557.R2864 E53 2013.
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Farside / Ben Bova.
New York : Tor, 2013.
PS3552.O84 F37 2013.
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The flamethrowers : a novel / Rachel Kushner.
New York : Scribner, 2013.
PS3611.U7386 F57 2013.
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Forecast : what physics, meteorology, and the natural sciences can teach us about economics / Mark Buchanan.
New York : Bloomsbury, c2013.
HB145 .B83 2013.
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The forever war / Joe Haldeman.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.
PS3558.A353 F67 2009.
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The fun parts / Sam Lipsyte.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
PS3562.I648 F86 2013.
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The future : six drivers of global change / Al Gore.
New York : Random House, [2013].
HM831 .G685 2013.
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The genius of dogs : how dogs are smarter than you think / Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods.
New York : Dutton, [2013].
SF433 .H355 2013.
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Ghana must go / Taiye Selasi.
New York : Penguin Press, 2013.
PS3619.E456 G43 2013.
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Gods and beasts : a novel / Denise Mina.
New York : Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Co., 2013.
PR6063.I457 G63 2013.
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The golem and the jinni : a novel / Helene Wecker.
New York : Harper, c2013.
PS3623.E39775 G65 2013x.
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The grammarian : a novel / by Annapurna Potluri.
Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2013.
PS3616.O8446 G73 2013.
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Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal / Mary Roach.
New York : W.W. Norton, c2013.
QP145 .R53 2013.
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The hit / David Baldacci.
New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2013.
PS3552.A446 H55 2013x.
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Honor / Elif Shafak.
[New York] : Viking, 2013.
PS3619.H328 H66 2013.
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How to create the perfect wife : Britain's most ineligible bachelor and his enlightened quest to train the ideal mate / Wendy Moore.
New York : Basic Books, c2013.
PR3398.D3 M66 2013.
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Improbable scholars : the rebirth of a great American school system and a strategy for America's schools / David L. Kirp.
New York : Oxford University Press, [2013].
LB2822.83.N5 K57 2013.
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In the kingdom of the sick : a social history of chronic illness in America / Laurie Edwards.
New York : Walker & Co., c2013.
RA644.6 .E38 2013.
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The ingenious gentleman and poet Federico García Lorca ascends to hell / Carlos Rojas ; translated by Edith Grossman.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2013.
PQ6633.O594 I513 2013.
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The iron king / Maurice Druon ; translated from French by Humphrey Hare.
London : HarperCollins, 2013.
PQ2607.R75 I76 2013x.
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Island 731 / Jeremy Robinson.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2013.
PS3618.O3268 I85 2013.
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John Gilbert : the last of the silent film stars / Eve Golden.
Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2013.
PN2287.G517 G65 2013.
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Keeping hope alive : one woman: 90,000 lives changed / Hawa Abdi ; with Sarah J. Robbins.
New York, NY : Grand Central Pub., 2013.
CT2208.H39 A3 2013.
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Letters to a young scientist / Edward O. Wilson.
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.
QH31.W64 A4 2013.
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Life after life : a novel / by Jill McCorkle.
Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2013.
PS3563.C3444 L54 2013.
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Life after life : a novel / Kate Atkinson.
New York : Reagan Arthur Books / Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
PR6051.T56 L54 2013.
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The Magic of Saida / M.G. Vassanji.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
PR9199.3.V388 M34 2013.
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A map of Tulsa : a novel / Benjamin Lytal.
New York : Penguin Books, ©2013.
PS3612.Y78 M37 2013.
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Mary Coin / Marisa Silver.
New York : Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., [2013].
PS3619.I55 M37 2013.
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The master of us all : Balenciaga, his workrooms, his world / Mary Blume.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2013].
TT505.B28 B59 2013.
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Math on trial : how numbers get used and abused in the courtroom / Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez.
New York : Basic Books, [2013].
K2290.S73 S36 2013.
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Maverick genius : the pioneering odyssey of Freeman Dyson / Phillip F. Schewe.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2013.
QC16.D95 S34 2013.
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Merchant, soldier, sage : a history of the world in three castes / David Priestland.
New York : The Penguin Press, 2013.
D210 .P935 2013.
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Mom & me & mom / Maya Angelou.
New York : Random House, c2013.
PS3551.N464 Z46 2013.
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Mumbai, New York, Scranton / by Tamara Shopsin ; with photographs by Jason Fulford.
New York : Scribner, 2013.
CT275.S4896 A3 2013.
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Napalm : an American biography / Robert M. Neer.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
UG447.65 .N44 2013.
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Nature's fortune : how business and society thrive by investing in nature / Mark R. Tercek, Jonathan S. Adams.
New York : Basic Books, [2013].
HC79.E5 T47135 2013.
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A nearly perfect copy : a novel / Allison Amend.
New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, c2013.
PS3601.M464 N43 2013.
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Nothing serious : a novel / Daniel Klein.
Sag Harbor, NY : The Permanent Press, 2013.
PS3561.L344 N68 2013.
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Oleander girl : a novel / by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
New York : Free Press, c2013.
PS3554.I86 O44 2013.
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On the Muslim question / Anne Norton.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2013.
BP173.25 .N67 2013.
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Opportunity, Montana : big copper, bad water, and the burial of an American landscape / Brad Tyer.
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2012].
TD899.C59 T94 2012.
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Out of order : stories from the history of the Supreme Court / Sandra Day O'Connor.
New York : Random House, c2013.
KF8742 .O276 2013.
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Paris reborn : Napoléon III, Baron Haussmann, and the quest to build a modern city / Stephane Kirkland.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
HT169.F72 P366155 2013.
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Paris : the novel / Edward Rutherfurd.
New York : Doubleday, c2013.
PR6068.U88 P38 2013.
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The perfect ghost / Linda Barnes.
New York : Minotaur Books, 2013.
PS3552.A682 P47 2013.
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The pipeline and the paradigm : Keystone XL, tar sands, and the battle to defuse the carbon bomb / Samuel Avery.
Washington D.C. : Ruka Press® , ©2013.
TN879.5.A94 P57 2013x.
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Rest in pieces : the curious fates of famous corpses / Bess Lovejoy.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2013.
CT105 .L68 2013.
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River of stars / Guy Gavriel Kay.
New York : Roc, [2013].
PR9199.3.K39 R58 2013.
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The secret lives of sports fans : the science of sports obsession / Eric Simons.
New York : Overlook Duckworth, c2013.
GV715 .S56 2013x.
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The secretary : a journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the heart of American power / Kim Ghattas.
New York : Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2013.
E887.C55 G53 2013.
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The silence and the roar / Nihad Sirees ; translated from the Arabic by Max Weiss.
New York : Other Press, 2013.
PJ7862.I76 A4713 2013.
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A slap in the face : why insults hurt and why they shouldn't / William B. Irvine.
New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
BF698.35.R47 I78 2013.
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Storm kings : the untold history of America's first tornado chasers / Lee Sandlin.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2013.
QC955 .S26 2013.
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The story until now : a great big book of stories / Kit Reed.
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2013.
PS3568.E367 S76 2013.
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Submergence : a novel / by J. M. Ledgard.
Minneapolis, MN : Coffee House Press, 2013.
PR6112.E34 S83 2012.
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Tapestry of fortunes : a novel / Elizabeth Berg.
New York : Random House, c2013.
PS3552.E6996 T37 2013.
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A thousand pardons : a novel / Jonathan Dee.
New York : Random House, c2013.
PS3554.E355 T57 2013.
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Traveling the power line : from the Mojave Desert to the Bay of Fundy / Julianne Couch.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013].
TJ163.25.U6 C68 2013.
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The unchangeable spots of leopards / Kristopher Jansma.
New York : Viking, 2013.
PS3610.A5873 U53 2013.
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Under Tower Peak / by Bart Paul.
New York : Arcade Publishing, ©2013.
PS3616.A92765 U53 2013.
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The undivided past : humanity beyond our differences / David Cannadine.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
D20.C197 2013.
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Vegetable literacy : cooking and gardening with twelve families from the edible plant kingdom, with over 300 deliciously simple recipes / Deborah Madison ; photography by Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton.
Berkeley [Calif.] : Ten Speed Press, [2013].
TX801 .M235 2013.
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Walking home : a poet's journey / Simon Armitage.
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. PUBLISHER = ©2012.
DA670.P4 A76 2013.
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Why we write : 20 acclaimed authors on how and why they do what they do / edited by Meredith Maran.
New York : Plume, 2013.
PN165 .M37 2013.
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Works cited : an alphabetical odyssey of mayhem and misbehavior / Brandon R. Schrand.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2013.
PS3619.C4618 W67 2013.
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Z : a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald / Therese Anne Fowler.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013.
PS3606.O857 Z23 2013.
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