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Best sellers prime todays deals gift ideas new releases customer service electronics books. She is the author most recently of the novel a book of heaven. The scholars of heaven read and study the vast collection of ashes, books from the torched libraries. An eve who does not recognize her own biblical story shares her version of events in the garden of eden before imparting the alternate feminist stories of four women, including abrahams wife sarah, a polytheist cook, jobs wife, and the queen of sheba. Pantheon books, 2014 first edition, first printing.
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