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Face the Music: A Life Exposed

by Paul Stanley

Published: 2014-04-08

Hardcover: 480 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn Face the Music, Paul Stanley—the co-founder and famous “Starchild” frontman of KISS—reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band. Face the Music is the shocking...

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The Statue and the Fury: A Year of Art, Race, Music and Cocktails

by Jim Dees

Published: 2016-11-01

Kindle Edition: 254 pages

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In 1997, Oxford, Mississippi sought to build a statue to honor the 100th birthday of native Nobel laureate, William Faulkner. In this funny and heartfelt memoir, Thacker Mountain Radio host Jim Dees, chronicles the year-long civic contretemps that erupted over a magnolia tree that was cut down to make...

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The New Order: Stories

by Karen E. Bender

Published: 2018-11-06

Hardcover: 288 pages

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“Bender's willingness to go deep, to burrow down into what's right and wrong about 21st century America and Americans, is a mirror that draws us in and does not allow us to look away." ?Los Angeles Times on Refund The National Book Award finalist for Refund returns with a new collection ...

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A Light of Her Own

by Carrie Callaghan

Published: 2018-11-13

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In Holland 1633, a woman’s ambition has no place. Judith is a painter, dodging the law and whispers of murder to try to become the first woman admitted to the Haarlem painters guild. Maria is a Catholic in a country where the faith is banned, hoping to absolve her sins by recovering a ...

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Black Ice

by Lorene Cary

Published: 1992-02-04

Paperback: 237 pages

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In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for future American leaders.  Like any good ...

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The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed

by Lee Smith

Published: 2016-09-19

Kindle Edition: 192 pages

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The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed, set in a small southern town at midcentury, tells the story of nine-year-old Susan, for whom the first bright, carefree, promise-filled days of summer slowly evolve into a time of innocence lost and childhood illusions shattered. Susan's mother is vain and frivolous,...

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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History

by Molly Caldwell Crosby

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 400 pages

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In this national-bestselling account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors,"*-and moving on to today's strain of the killer virus. Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed go...

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Eat, Drink, and Be From Mississippi: A Novel

by Nanci Kincaid

Published: 2009-01-06

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Truely Noonan is the quintessential Southern boy made good. Like his older sister, Courtney, Truely left behind the slow, sweet life of Mississippi for jet-set San Francisco, where he earned a fortune as an Internet entrepreneur. Courtney and Truely each find happy marriages--until, as if ...

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Losing Battles

by Eudora Welty

Published: 1990-08-11

Paperback: 448 pages

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Three generations of Granny Vaughn's descendants gather at her Mississippi home to celebrate her 90th birthday. Possessed of the true storyteller's gift, the members of this clan cannot resist the temptation to swap tales.

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Old City Hall

by Robert Rotenberg

Published: 2012-03-06

Paperback: 384 pages

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Nominated for the UK Crime Writers Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award Finalist for the Elle magazine (France) Best Crime Novel of the Year Nominated for the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award 2010 DID CANADA’S FAVOURITE RADIO HOST COMMIT MURDER? Kevin Brace, Canada’s most...