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Savage Girl

by Jean Zimmerman

Published: 2014-03-06

Hardcover: 416 pages

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A riveting tale from the author of The Orphanmaster about a wild girl from Nevada who lands in Manhattan’s Gilded Age society Jean Zimmerman’s new novel tells of the dramatic events that transpire when an alluring, blazingly smart eighteen-year-old girl named Bronwyn, reputedly raised ...

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Bonjour Tristesse: A Novel

by Francoise Sagan

Published: 2008-06-17

Paperback: 160 pages

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Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father—a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye—for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful v...

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Fat Profits

by Bruce Bradley

Published: 2012-08-06

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Ready for a real page-turning thriller that's sure to keep you up all night? At a crossroads in his life after a bitter divorce, Andrew Hastings fights to prove he can be a great father while trying to climb the corporate ladder. Desperate to prove himself to his latest boss, Andrew works ...

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Leading Man (Vintage Contemporaries Original)

by Benjamin Svetkey

Published: 2013-09-03

Paperback: 230 pages

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In the tradition of David Nicholls and Nick Hornby comes a hilarious, bittersweet, heartwarming debut novel about love of all kinds: first, unrequited, delusional, obsessive, and, ultimately, the kind that lasts.At 26, Maxwell Lerner thinks he has his whole life figured out. He's got the g...

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The Trust

by Sean Keefer

Published: 2011-01-21

Paperback: 350 pages

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To attorney Noah Parks, the probate of a will should be a simple task. But the Last Will and Testament of Leonardo Xavier Cross is anything but simple. Though Parks has never heard of Cross, he learns that the Will directs that he provide the legal representation for the estate and as part of his fee...

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Love Saves the Day: A Novel

by Gwen Cooper

Published: 2013-10-22

Paperback: 336 pages

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From the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Homer’s Odyssey comes a tender, joyful, utterly unforgettable novel, primarily told through the eyes of the most observant member of any human family: the cat.Humans best understand the truth of things if they come at it indirectly...

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October Sky (The Coalwood Series #1)

by Homer Hickam

Published: 1999-02-16

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

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The true story, originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film.It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain future, Homer Hickam nurtured a dream: to ...

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Bud & Me : The True Adventures of the Abernathy Boys

by Alta Abernathy, Barbara Harris

Published: 1998-04-01

Hardcover: 162 pages

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Bud & Me is one of the 20th Century's most exciting true stories of courage and adventure. The year is 1905. The new century is still in its infancy. Automobiles are little more than rich men's toys and many short-sighted people feel that everything that can be invented has been invented! In the early...

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The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

by Betty Medsger

Published: 2014-01-07

Hardcover: 608 pages

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The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had cr...

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The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee

by Stewart Lee Allen

Published: 2003-03-04

Paperback: 240 pages

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In this captivating book, Stewart Lee Allen treks three-quarters of the way around the world on a caffeinated quest to answer these profound questions: Did the advent of coffee give birth to an enlightened western civilization? Is coffee, indeed, the substance that drives history? From the cliffhanging...