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Dry

by Augusten Burroughs

Published: 2005-02-10

Paperback: 304 pages

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With unconventional wit and a wonderfully weird way of looking at things, Augusten Burroughs chronicles his life on the edge after leaving his deeply eccentric foster family. Dry opens in Manhattan, where Augusten has established a life for himself as a high-paid advertising hotshot. But his past haunts...

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The Dry Grass of August

by Anna Jean Mayhew

Published: 2011-04-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in the throes of segregation, what it will mean for a young girl on her way to adulthood--and for the woman who means the world to her. . .On a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old...

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A Dublin Student Doctor: An Irish Country Doctor Novel

by Patrick Taylor

Published: 2011-10-11

Hardcover: 496 pages

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Patrick Taylor's devoted readers know Doctor Fingal Flahertie O?Reilly as a pugnacious general practitioner in the quaint Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Now Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young Fingal?and show us the pivotal events that shaped the man he would be...

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Dubliners

by James Joyce

Published: 2006-09-01

Perfect Paperback: 190 pages

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Dubliners (Norton Critical Edition)

by James Joyce, Margot Norris

Published: 2006-01-23

Paperback: 412 pages

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Dubliners is arguably the best-known and most influential collection of short stories written in English, and has been since its publication in 1914.Through what Joyce described as their "style of scrupulous meanness," the stories present a direct, sometimes searing view of Dublin in ...

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Dubliners (Signet Classics)

by James Joyce

Published: 2007-02-06

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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This short story collection draws a vivid portrait of Joyce's Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century, with rich imagery and characterization.

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* * * Insightful,
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The Duchess

by Amanda Foreman

Published: 2008-08-19

Paperback: 512 pages

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The Duchess's Tattoo: Thoughts on THE AMERICAN HEIRESS

by Daisy Goodwin

Published: 2011-04-26

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"Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin’s The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the 1890s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind." -...

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The Dud Avocado (New York Review Books Classics)

by Elaine Dundy

Published: 2007-06-05

Paperback: 260 pages

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The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy’s Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking. C...

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The Duggars: 20 and Counting!: Raising One of America's Largest Families--How they Do It

by Jim Bob Duggar, Michelle Duggar

Published: 2008-12-02

Paperback: 240 pages

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This practical, positive book reveals the many parenting strategies that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar use as they preside over America's best-known mega-family. Each time a new baby arrives, the press from around the world clamors for interviews and information. Visitors are amazed to find ...