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The Twelve Rooms of the Nile
(Simon and Schuster, 2012)
Enid Shomer's debut novel, in which Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert, both travelling in Egypt in 1849, form a deep friendship, marked by intelligence, humor, and a ravishing tenderness, that alters their destinies in the early days of the European exploration of the Nile.
—from Lippincott Massie McQuilkin
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Stalking the Florida Panther
"In this fine first book the eternal themes of love, loss, unrequital, and forgiveness come together with the characters to form a remarkably unified whole."—Maxine Kumin
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STARS AT NOON: Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran
Poems that give voice to the mercurial, dazzling woman who first broke the sound barrier.
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Tourist Season
"Beautifully made, surprising and inevitable, wonderfully inventive and deeply true"
—Pam Houston
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Imaginary Men
"Remarkable insights into tradition and family, love and sex... This is a splendid fictional debut."—Robert Olen Butler
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Black Drum
A stunning collection that adroitly mixes the sacred and the profane, the classical and casual.—Booklist
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This Close to the Earth
Moving through the cycle of birth, growth, and death, the poems of Enid Shomer are informed by physical knowledge, transforming it into rare and often startling insight.
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