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About Alice

by Calvin Trillin

Published: 2006-12-26

Hardcover: 78 pages

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In Calvin Trillin’s antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had “a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day” and the mother who thought that if you didn’t go to every performance of your child’s school play, “the county would come an...

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About Face (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery)

by Donna Leon

Published: 2009-04

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Donna Leon's eighteen novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warm-hearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon's best-selling books have explored Venice in all its as...

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About My Sisters

by Debra Ginsberg

Published: 2009-10-13

Kindle Edition: 324 pages

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On the heels of her poignant and critically acclaimed memoirs, Waiting and Raising Blaze, Debra Ginsberg explores the unique connection she shares with her three sisters.In About My Sisters, Ginsberg examines the special bond she shares with her three sisters, May, Lavander and Deja. As he...

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About the Author: A Novel

by John Colapinto

Published: 2002-07-23

Paperback: 272 pages

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Just how did Cal Cunningham -- a twenty-five-year-old bookstore stockboy who is new to Manhattan and who has never written anything -- publish a bestselling novel that sells to the movies for a million dollars?A mysterious roommate, a timely bike accident, and the rapacious literary agent ...

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About Three Bricks Shy: And The Load Filled Up

by Roy Blount Jr

Published: 2004-07-25

Paperback: 376 pages

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Above All Things

by Tanis Rideout

Published: 2013-03-07

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Above All Things is a heart-wrenchingly romantic historical novel by Tanis Rideout, based on British mountaineer George Mallory's fatal attempt to climb Everest, and his wife Ruth, who is left at home, waiting for him to return to her. In the Himalayas two climbers strike out for the summit of the Earth's...

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Above the Law

by Tim Green

Published: 2010-02-01

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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Readers last saw Casey Jordan in The Letter of the Law, where she defended her law professor for the grisly murder of a student only to discover he was guilty. After, Casey left her high-powered practice and wealthy husband and opened a legal aid clinic. When an illegal Mexican immigrant i...

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Abraham : A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths

by Bruce Feiler

Published: 2002-09

Hardcover: 240 pages

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In this timely, provocative, and uplifting journey, the bestselling author of Walking the Bible searches for the man at the heart of the world's three monotheistic religions -- and today's deadliest conflicts. At a moment when the world is asking, “Can the religions get along?” o...

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Abraham CD Low Price: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths

by Bruce Feiler

Published: 2005-08-01

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At a moment when the world is asking "Can the religions get along?" Abraham stands as the shared ancestor of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. He holds the key to our deepest fears -- and our possible reconciliation. Bruce Feiler set out on a personal quest to better understand our common pat...

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Abraham Lincoln in New Orleans: A novel based on the true events of March - June 1831

by Rae Katherine Eighmey

Published: 2009-07-28

Paperback: 274 pages

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In the spring of 1831 Abraham Lincoln, along with two relatives, built a flatboat and set off down the Mississippi River for New Orleans. He spent a month in this, the most sophisticated, opulent American city of the day, and never wrote or said a word about the things he experienced there. In this...