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Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening That Changed America

by Charles A. Cerami

Published: 2009-06-09

Paperback: 288 pages

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"Cerami wittily recounts the evening in rich detail."?Library JournalOnly two guests were invited to what was arguably the most elegant, sumptuous, and important dinner party that Thomas Jefferson ever hosted. Each course was prepared and laid out in advance so that no servants would enter...

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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

by Anne Tyler

Published: 1991-12-22

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"A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read."THE BOSTON GLOBEPearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. Ever since 1944 when her husband left her, she has raised her three very different children on her own. Now grown, they have gather...

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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Anne Tyler

Published: 1996-08-27

Paperback: 303 pages

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“Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . superb entertainment.” –The New York Times“A book that should join those few that every literate person will have to read.”–The Boston GlobePearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not of her memory. It was a Sunday night...

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The Dinner Party

by Jenny Ladner Brenner

Published: 2012-06-20

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Sometime back in seventh grade, Lainie and Miya pinky swore to attend the same college, snag gorgeous husbands, and live next door to one another for the rest of their lives. But is post-grad life ever what one imagines?Lainie Silver is twenty-eight, attractive, razor-sharp, and is noneth...

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Dinner with a Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering

by David Gregory

Published: 2011-07-19

Paperback: 128 pages

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You are Invited to a Dinner with Jesus of NazarethThe mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky’s desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick can’t pass up the o...

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Dinner With Anna Karenina

by Gloria Goldreich

Published: 2006-01-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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"And the worst of it is, you understand, that I can't leave him: there are children, and I am bound. Yet I can't live with him . . ." Immediately the words from Anna Karenina take on a significance for the women who have gathered over good food and good wine for their first book club meet...

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Dinner with Friends

by Donald Margulies

Published: 2000-06-01

Paperback: 112 pages

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaOver the past decade, Donald Margulies has written some of the most insightful works in contemporary American drama. His body of work includes The Loman Family Picnic, Sight Unseen, The Model Apartment and Collected Stories, and with each succeeding wo...

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* * * Dark,
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The Dinner

by Herman Koch

Published: 2013-10-29

Paperback: 320 pages

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Now a major motion picture starring Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, and Chloë Sevigny"A European Gone Girl." —The Wall Street JournalAn internationally bestselling phenomenon, the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make th...

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The Diplomat's Wife

by Pam Jenoff

Published: 2012-08-15

Kindle Edition: 372 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan's TaleHow have I been lucky enough to come here, to be alive, when so many others are not? I should have died?. But I am here.1945. Surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nederman is lucky to have escaped with her life....

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

by Douglas Adams

Published: 1991-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 306 pages

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There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.