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Barefoot: A Novel

by Elin Hilderbrand

Published: 2008-06-09

Paperback: 432 pages

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Three women arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a Nantucket native home from college for the summer. Burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues, the women-- two sisters and one friend--make their way to the sisters' tiny cottage, inherited from an...

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Barely a Lady (The Drake's Rakes series)

by Eileen Dreyer

Published: 2010-07-01

Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages

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Olivia Grace has secrets that could destroy her. One of the greatest of these is the Earl of Gracechurch, who married and divorced her five years earlier. Abandoned and disgraced, Grace has survived those years at the edge of respectability. Then she stumbles over Jack on the battlefield o...

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Barely Breathing: The Breathing Series (Volume 2)

by Rebecca Donovan

Published: 2012-06-14

Paperback: 420 pages

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Emma's struggle with an abusive home life came to a heart pounding conclusion in the final chapters of "Reason to Breathe". Now everyone in Weslyn knows Emma's secret, but Carol can?t hurt Emma anymore. Some are still haunted by the horror of that night, and some must face the repercussions of their...

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The Bark of the Dogwood: A Tour of Southern Homes and Gardens

by Jackson Tippett McCrae

Published: 2005-02

Paperback: 450 pages

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Asked to write a series of articles on Southern Homes and Gardens for a New York Magazine, Strekfus Beltzenschmidt (the main character in The Bark of the Dogwood) chooses not only some of the plantations and historic residences the South is known for, but places of his youth, including the...

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The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

by Mary Rose O'Reilley

Published: 2001-10-10

Paperback: 344 pages

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Transcendence can come in many forms. For Mary Rose O’Reilley a year tending sheep seemed a way to seek a spirituality based not on “climbing out of the body” but rather on existing fully in the world, at least if she could overlook some of its earthier aspects. The Barn ...

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Barney's Version (Vintage International)

by Mordecai Richler

Published: 2010-05-04

Paperback: 417 pages

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Barney Panofsky?Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur?is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival's autobiography.� Whether it's ranting about his bohemian misadventures during the 1950's in Paris, his tumult...

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Barrel Fever and Other Stories

by David Sedaris

Published: 2001-10-01

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David Sedaris' first collection of comic stories and essays. Performed by the author and his sister Amy Sedaris, this program is described by the New York Post as "a nuclear barrage of humor you could never replicate by reading this material on your own."

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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

by David Sedaris

Published: 1995-06-01

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Short stories and essays by an apartment cleaner and a popular commentator for National Public Radio highlight the absurd behavior of modern Americans, such as the suburban dad who saves money by performing surgery at home. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.A collection of stories and e...

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Barrelhouse Boys

by Joel Williamsen

Published: 2009-11-05

Paperback: 536 pages

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It is 1894, and Nebraska's glittering state capital draws young Bud Gardner away from drought and poverty towards a precarious existence within his uncle's saloon, extended family and eccentric circle of bootleggers. But amidst the whores, oddballs, and shady characters of Lincoln's Haymarket district,...

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The Barrett Solution

by Robert Norris

Published: 2011-06-07

Paperback: 272 pages

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During the investigation of a murder in rural Texas, Lieutenant Mark Owens uncovers the highly guarded secrets of a CIA black operation. The trail leads to the Oval Office. With a presidential election looming the White House will resort to extreme measures to cover up their illegal activities. Owens...