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The Curse of Beauty: The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel

by James Bone

Published: 2016-04-12

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The tumultuous and heartbreaking life of a world-famous model whose riveting story of beauty, fame, passion, murder, and madness in the Gilded Age captivated a nation.As America was stepping into the modern era, one great beauty became the artist’s model of choice. Her perfect form becam...

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Dreams Of My Mothers: A Story Of Love Transcendent

by Joel L. A. Peterson

Published: 2015-07-01

Paperback: 344 pages

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Dreams of My Mothers is based on the true story of two mothers' transcendent love for the same boy. It is a love that reaches across the globe, propels them and him on a riveting and unimaginable path of transformation and triumph. It is a story that will speak to everyone who reads it; a ...

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The Step: One Woman's Journey to Finding her Own Happiness and Success During the Apollo Space Program

by Martha Lemasters

Published: 2016-04-05

Paperback: 282 pages

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Martha Lemasters’ gripping memoir tells the remarkable story of her life working at Cape Kennedy during the Apollo years. Fiercely determined she works her way up, finally realizing her dream of becoming a writer and witnessing history first hand. The Step is a riveting look at the real...

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The Fourth Fisherman: How Three Mexican Fishermen Who Came Back from the Dead Changed My Life and Saved My Marriage

by Joe Kissack

Published: 2012-03-13

Hardcover: 224 pages

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We each came to a moment of brokenness;what we found there was God.And he was enough. It was the subject of headlines around the world:  Three Mexican fishermen in a small open boat without any supplies, drifting for more than nine months and 5,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean. Through...

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The Crown's Game

by Evelyn Skye

Published: 2016-05-17

Hardcover: 416 pages

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"Gorgeous and richly imagined."—Sara Raasch, New York Times bestselling author of the Snow Like Ashes series"Teeming with hidden magic and fiery romance."—Sabaa Tahir, New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the AshesPerfect for fans of Shadow and Bone and Red Queen, The Crown...

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Don't You Cry

by Mary Kubica

Published: 2016-05-17

Hardcover: 320 pages

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From the author of the New York Times bestseller everyone is talking about THE GOOD GIRL, Mary Kubica returns an electrifying and addictive tale of deceit and obsession. In downtown Chicago, a young woman named Esther Vaughan disappears from her apartment without a trace. A haunting letter...

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The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories

by Angela Carter

Published: 1990-01-01

Paperback: 128 pages

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From familiar fairy tales and legends – Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss-in-Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires, werewolves – Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

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What's A Girl Gotta Do? (Robin Hudson, Book 1)

by Sparkle Hayter

Published: 1995-03-01

Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages

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Robin Hudson's life is getting complicated. Her estranged husband's girlfriend is not only younger, prettier, and more successful - she's pregnant. Robin's job - on the trash crew for the prestigious All News Network - is rocky, too. She can't seem to keep from making on-the-air faux pas. Now her loathsome...

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Just Another Number

by Maggie Young

Published: 2015-02-10

Paperback: 366 pages

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Just Another Number is a memoir structured by the first 23 men I had sex with. It’s about how American society curbs women to validate themselves by men. Through my lovers, I relive all the shit I got myself into because of that. The book paints a gritty portrait of a Tennessee teen who- in the midst...

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The Crocodile Bird

by Ruth Rendell

Published: 1994-10-10

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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A mother and a daughter live quietly in the rustic gatehouse of Shrove House, an isolated British estate. Their life seems perfectly ordinary except that daughter Liza has been kept isolated from the outside world for all of her sixteen years. And that he has seen her beautiful mother commit murder......