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The Private Lives of Trees

by Alejandro Zambra

Published: 2010-07

Paperback: 98 pages

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The Private Lives of Trees tells the story of a single night: a young professor of literature named Juli�n is reading to his step-daughter Daniela and nervously waiting for his wife Ver�nica to return from her art class. Each night, Juli�n has been improvising a story about trees to tell Daniela before...

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The Private Patient (Vintage)

by P.D. James

Published: 2009-11-03

Paperback: 352 pages

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National BestsellerCheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic.  When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectat...

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Private: #1 Suspect (Jack Morgan)

by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

Published: 2012-01-02

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Unsolvable casesSince former Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world's most effective investigation firm--sought out by the famous and the powerful to discreetly handle their most intimate problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most tec...

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The Privileges: A Novel (Random House Reader's Circle)

by Jonathan Dee

Published: 2010-10-05

Paperback: 288 pages

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Smart and socially gifted, Adam and Cynthia Morey are perfect for each other. With Adam’s rising career in the world of private equity, a beautiful home in Manhattan, gorgeous children, and plenty of money, they are, by any reasonable standard, successful. But for the Moreys, their futur...

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The Privileges: A Novel

by Jonathan Dee

Published: 2010-01-05

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Smart, socially gifted, and chronically impatient, Adam and Cynthia Morey are so perfect for each other that united they become a kind of fortress against the world. In their hurry to start a new life, they marry young and have two children before Cynthia reaches the age of twenty-five. Ad...

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The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio how my mother raise 10 kids on 25 words or less 2001 hardback

by Terry Ryan

Published: 2001

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio Movie Tie-in: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less

by Terry Ryan

Published: 2005-08-30

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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less

by Terry Ryan

Published: 2002-04-09

Paperback: 352 pages

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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the "contest era" of the 1950s and 1960s. Evelyn's winning ways defied the church, her alcoholic husband, and antiquated views of housewives. ...

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The Prize

by Daniel Yergin

Published: 2011-04-05

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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Pulitzer Prize Winner -- and Now an Epic PBS Series The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations...

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Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin

Published: 1993

Paperback: 928 pages

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Hailed by The New York Times as "a book that must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history", Yergin's bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winner has been made into an exciting 8-part miniseries to air on PBS in January 1993. 32 pages of photos.