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Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses, and Liberation of Joan Rivers

by Leslie Bennetts

Published: 2016-11-15

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The definitive book about Joan Rivers' tumultuous, victorious, tragic, hilarious, and fascinating life.Joan Rivers was more than a legendary comedian; she was an icon and a role model to millions, a fearless pioneer who left a legacy of expanded opportunity when she died in 2014. Her life ...

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To Capture What We Cannot Keep: A Novel

by Beatrice Colin

Published: 2017-10-31

Paperback: 304 pages

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Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young Scottish widow and a French engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love.In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Émile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating h...

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The Broom of the System: A Novel (Penguin Orange Collection)

by David Foster Wallace

Published: 2016-10-18

Paperback: 480 pages

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Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback   For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the...

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The Red Tent - 20th Anniversary Edition: A Novel

by Anita Diamant

Published: 2014-11-25

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis. In The Red Tent, Anita Diamant brings this fascinating biblical character to vivid life.Told in Dinah's voice, the novel reveals the tradition...

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Leaving Family Behind

by Jerome Peterson

Published: 2011-03-14

Paperback: 278 pages

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From Lithuania to Philadelphia, Leaving Family Behind tells of two immigrants' historical journey in the early 1900s. It is a story where Jonas and Evelina Violettskus will stop at nothing in pursuit of their individual dreams. Evelina rebels when her older brother forces her to abandon her goal to...

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A Bridge Across the Ocean

by Susan Meissner

Published: 2017-03-14

Paperback: 384 pages

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Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women—past and present—in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life.   February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a Germa...

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The Vatican Diaries: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Power, Personalities and Politics at the Heart o f the Catholic Church

by John Thavis

Published: 2013-02-21

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The revealing New York Times bestseller examines the reign of Pope Benedict, the papal conclave process, and the history of one of the world’s oldest and most mysterious institutionsFor more than twenty-five years John Thavis held one of the most fascinating journalistic jobs in the worl...

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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

by Steve Coll

Published: 2013-05-28

Paperback: 704 pages

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An “extraordinary” and “monumental” exposé of Big Oil from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll (The Washington Post)In this, the first hard-hitting examination of ExxonMobil—the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States—Steve Coll reveals the tr...

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This Was a Man: The Final Volume of The Clifton Chronicles

by Jeffrey Archer

Published: 2016-11-08

Hardcover: 416 pages

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This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game?Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus,...

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Little Women (Mnemosyne Classics): Complete and Unabridged Classic Edition

by Louisa May Alcott, Mnemosyne Books

Published: 2016-06-29

Paperback: 466 pages

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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Complete and Unabridged Classic Edition. Tradecover Paperback 6 x 9 inches. Mnemosyne Books.