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Desert Gift (Side Roads)

by Sally John

Published: 2011-05-18

Paperback: 400 pages

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What does a nationally known marriage expert do when her own marriage falls apart? Just as Jillian Galloway sets out for a publicity tour to promote her new book, her husband drops a bombshell: He wants a divorce. Jill flees to her parents? home in the California desert, wondering whether everything...

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Desert Heat (Joanna Brady)

by J. A. Jance

Published: 2009-06-30

Paperback: 340 pages

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A cop lies dying beneath the blistering Arizona sun?a local lawman who may well have become the next sheriff of Cochise County.?The police brass claim that Andy Brady was dirty, and that his shooting was a suicide attempt. Joanna Brady, his devoted wife and mother of their nine-year-old da...

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Desert Queen

by JANET WALLACH

Published: 1996

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The story of Lawrence of Arabia pales before Gertrude of Arabia. A marvelous story of an adventurous woman abandoning Victorian England and journeying deep into the Arab heart of the Middle East, at a time when women did not go unchaperoned, to report on "every grain of snad". Filled with intrigue, history...

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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia

by Janet Wallach

Published: 1996-08-01

Paperback: 419 pages

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Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love for its language and its people, sh...

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Desert Wives: Lena Jones Mystery (Lena Jones Mysteries (Paperback))

by Betty Webb

Published: 2009-12-01

Paperback: 250 pages

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That's what private detective Lena Jones learns when she helps thirteen year old Rebecca escape from Purity, a polygamy compound hidden in a desolate area near straddling Utah/Arizona border.

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Désert, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

by Corrine François

Published: 2000-01-01

Mass Market Paperback: 128 pages

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The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg

by Mrs. Jane Langton, Jane Langton

Published: 2003-06-09

Hardcover: 256 pages

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From the winner of Bouchercon's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Nero Wolfe Award, and a Newbery Honor Award, a baffling, lavishly illustrated new Homer Kelly extravaganza Most of the Harvard men who were killed at Gettysburg died as valiant heroes. But according to Mary Kelly's family lore, one of her...

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The Deserters Tale - Why I Walked Away from the War in Iraq

by Joshua Key

Published: 2008

Paperback: 0 pages

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The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq

by Joshua Key

Published: 2007-12-21

Paperback: 256 pages

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�?Destined to become part of the literature of the Iraq war . . . A substantial contribution to history.??Los Angeles TimesNow in paperback, The Deserter's Tale is the first memoir from a soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, and a vivid and damning indictment of the American military...

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Desirable Daughters: A Novel

by Bharati Mukherjee

Published: 2003-03-12

Paperback: 320 pages

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"The highlight of her career to date . . . Mukherjee bursts out as a star" (Publishers Weekly [starred review]) in her stirring novel of three women, two continents, and a perilous journey from the old world to the new -- now available in paperback.In the tradition of the Joy Luck Club, Bh...