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Off the Menu

by Stacey Ballis

Published: 2012-07-03

Paperback: 416 pages

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As the executive culinary assistant to celebrity Chicago chef Patrick Conlon, Alana Ostermann works behind the scenes?and that's just the way she likes it. But with developing recipes for Patrick's cookbooks, training his sous chefs, picking out the perfect birthday gifts for his ex-mother...

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Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route into Spain

by Jack Hitt

Published: 2005-03-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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When Jack Hitt set out to walk the 500 miles from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, he submitted to the rigorous traditions of Europe's oldest form of packaged tour, a pilgrimage that has been walked by millions in the history of Christendom. Off the Road is an unforgettable explor...

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Offer of Proof: A Novel

by Robert Heilbrun

Published: 2003-10-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A beautiful businesswoman is robbedand murdered. With her last breath, she identifies her assailant. Or does she?Damon Tucker, a young kid from Harlem, is quickly charged with the murder. He maintains his innocence from the beginning despite some incredibly damning evidence. Soon the only ...

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* * * * * Interesting,
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Offerings at the Wall: Artifacts from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection

by Thomas B. Allen

Published: 1995-05

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Highlighting a selection of the thousands of objects left by visitors at the Vietnam Memorial each year, a moving book pays tribute to the Wall that is visited by millions every year and to those immortalized by it.

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Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin

by Kathy Griffin

Published: 2009-09-08

Hardcover: 368 pages

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A Conversation with Kathy Griffin:Q: State your name and profession.KG: My name is Kathy Griffin, and I am a teller of d**k jokes. And a plumber.Q: This is your first book. Had you ever considered writing anything before? A novel? Or a work of historical scholarship? Or a children's story?...

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Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Spring (Everyman's Library)

by Penelope Fitzgerald

Published: 2003-09-23

Hardcover: 480 pages

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Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)After publishing her first novel in 1977 at the age of sixty-one, Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) went on to become one of the most remarkable and highly acclaimed English writers of the last century. Each of the three novels gathered here vividly and unforgett...

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Often Wrong, Never in Doubt : Unleash the Business Rebel Within

by Donny Deutsch, Peter Knobler

Published: 2005-10-01

Hardcover: 272 pages

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"Why Not Me?" It's not a question. It is a philosophy to live by. It's Donny Deutsch's motto. And it is the secret possessed by every person with the right stuff -- the one-in-a-hundred who gets to the top of their team, their company, their business, their industry. If there is an as...

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Oh My Stars: A Novel

by Lorna Landvik

Published: 2006-02-28

Paperback: 400 pages

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I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you’re a spice cake, you’re a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food.Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up in the Great Depression, which could just as well d...

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Oh the Glory of It All

by Sean Wilsey

Published: 2006-04-25

Paperback: 512 pages

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"In the beginning we were happy. And we were always excessive. So in the beginning we were happy to excess." With these opening lines Sean Wilsey takes us on an exhilarating tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families.Sean's blond-bombshell mother (one of the ...

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Oh the Hell of It All: A Memoir

by Pat Montandon

Published: 2007-04-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Thrust into the media spotlight with her son Sean Wilsey's searing portrayal of her in his New York Times bestseller Oh the Glory of It All, the former queen of San Francisco society shares her own candid take on the fascinating events of her life. Once dubbed San Francisco's "Golden Gi...