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The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What's My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen

by Mark Shaw

Published: 2016-12-06

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Was What’s My Line TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large?    These questions and more are answered in former CNN...

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* * * * Insightful,
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Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior

by Bart D. Ehrman

Published: 2017-02-28

Paperback: 336 pages

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The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral tradition and its role in shaping the stories about Jesus we encounter in the New Testament—and ultimately in our understanding of Christianity.Throughou...

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The Dog of My Nightmare

by Dave Lieber

Published: 2003-09

Paperback: 286 pages

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Dave's humorist writing touches on family, politics, and every day life. Laugh! Cry! Get Angry!

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Dance Like You Mean It

by Jeanne Skartsiaris

Published: 2017-02-11

Paperback: 0 pages

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What if you wrote a steamy, erotic novel that was so hot bookstores couldn't keep it on their shelves? What if you couldn't tell anyone you wrote it? At night, nurse Cassie Calabria pens a bodice-ripper novel, using an alias. She sends it to a few agents, then forgets about it. She's more ...

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The Dime

by Kathleen Kent

Published: 2017-02-14

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Brooklyn's toughest female detective takes on Dallas--and neither is ready for the fight.Dallas, Texas is not for the faint of heart. Good thing for Betty Rhyzyk she's from a family of take-no-prisoners Brooklyn police detectives. But her Big Apple wisdom will only get her so far when she ...

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A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley

by Katherine Frank

Published: 1986-09

Hardcover: 333 pages

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Mary Kingsley began her life as a typically conventional Victorian woman. She would end up travelling to some of the most inhospitable regions of Africa and became one of the most celebrated travellers of the day. At the age of 31, she sailed on a cargo ship along the coast from Sierra Leo...

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Speaking Truth to Power

by Anita Hill

Published: 1998-10-20

Paperback: 384 pages

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See the new HBO movie CONFIRMATION about the Clarence Thomas hearings, starring Kerry Washington in the role of Anita Hill—then read Hill’s own life story.After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private citizen and became a public figu...

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The Locals: A Novel

by Jonathan Dee

Published: 2017-08-08

Hardcover: 400 pages

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“Summons up a small American town at precisely the right moment in our history . . . a bold, vital, and view-expanding novel.”—George SaundersA rural working-class New England town elects as its mayor a New York hedge fund millionaire in this inspired novel for our times—fiction in...

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Raney: A Novel (Southern Revivals)

by Clyde Edgerton

Published: 2017-06-13

Paperback: 248 pages

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Clyde Edgerton's Raney is the comic love story of a marriage between Raney, a small-town Southern Baptist, and Charles, a librarian with liberal leanings from Atlanta, united by their shared enthusiasm for country music. The novel both interrogates and honors the faiths and foibles of its ...

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Crown of Stars

by Kate Elliott

Published: 2015-11-24

Paperback: 624 pages

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Set in an alternate Europe where bloody conflicts rage, the final book of the Crown of Stars epic fantasy series concludes the world-shaking conflict for the survival of humanityIn the wake of the cataclysm that has reshaped the very lands, Sanglant is struggling to legitimize his own rule...