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Santa's Twin

by Dean Koontz

Published: 1996-10-11

Hardcover: 72 pages

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"Someone has stolen Santa's bank card!"Combining the tongue-in-cheek charm of a modern classic with the timeless magic of cherished holiday tradition, here is a new Christmas story guaranteed to delight children of all ages--including those who pretend to have not grown up.At the request o...

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Make Someone Happy: Favorite Postings

by Elizabeth Berg

Published: 2016-06-29

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This is a collection of Elizabeth Berg's most-loved Facebook posts. She was asked by many to put these short essays into book form, to create, as one reader said, something to "take to the beach, or bed, or on an airplane." Elizabeth and her friend, the book's designer Phyllis Florin, happily complied,...

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Legends of the Fall

by Jim Harrison

Published: 2016-07-26

Paperback: 288 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of America’s most beloved and critically acclaimed writers. The classic Legends of the Fall is Harrison at his most memorable: a striking collection of novellas written with exceptional brilliance and a ferocious love of life.The tit...

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Appetites: A Cookbook

by Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever

Published: 2016-10-25

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Anthony Bourdain is man of many appetites. And for many years, first as a chef, later as a world-traveling chronicler of food and culture on his CNN series Parts Unknown, he has made a profession of understanding the appetites of others. These days, however, if he’s cooking, it’s for f...

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The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose

by Alice Munro

Published: 1991-05-07

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In this series of interweaving stories, Munro recreates the evolving bond between two women in the course of almost forty years. One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. the other is Rose, Flo's st...

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Stone

by Andy Goldsworthy

Published: 1994-03-01

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This British artist uses natural materials -- rocks, boulders, sand, mud, and clay -- to create outdoor sculptures.

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Sanctus (Ruin Trilogy)

by Simon Toyne

Published: 2012-05-29

Mass Market Paperback: 608 pages

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“If a thriller has to be one thing it’s thrilling, and Simon Toyne’s Sanctus is thrilling with bells on….A roller coaster ride through a dark world of conspiracy and betrayal.”—Paul Christopher, author of The Templar ConspiracyIf you are a fan of top-notch conspiracy fiction th...

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The Girl from Venice

by Martin Cruz Smith

Published: 2016-10-18

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The highly anticipated new standalone novel from Martin Cruz Smith, whom The Washington Post has declared “that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction,” The Girl from Venice is a suspenseful World War II love story set a...

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Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler

by Mark Riebling

Published: 2016-11-08

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Hailed as "powerful and provocative" (Washington Post), "heart-poundingly life-and-death" (New York Times) and, quite simply, "brilliant" (Kirkus), Mark Riebling's spy classic Wedge launched seven congressional committees, government audits, and blue-ribbon panels.  Now, in Church of Spi...

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Fourteen: A Daughter's Memoir of Adventure, Sailing, and Survival

by Leslie Johansen Nack

Published: 2015-10-20

Paperback: 300 pages

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After her mother and father divorce at age seven, Leslie quickly learns the hard lessons of being Dad's favorite. The abuse begins at age nine and doesn't end until she begins to fight back at Fourteen.  Her father, a larger-than-life Norwegian, assumed full custody of Leslie and her two ...