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Water: A Novel (Bapsi Sidwha)

by Bapsi Sidhwa

Published: 2013-07-21

Kindle Edition: 240 pages

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The renowned author Bapsi Sidhwa and the equally renowned filmmaker Deepa Mehta share a unique artistic relationship: Mehta adapted Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India for her brilliant film Earth, and here, Sidhwa adapts Mehta’s controversial film Water to the printed page.Set in 1938, agai...

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I Don't Mean to Be Rude, But...: Backstage Gossip from American Idol & the Secrets that Can Make You a Star

by Simon Cowell

Published: 2003-12-02

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Do YOU have what it takes to be a star? Simon Cowell reveals the answer and takes you behind the scenes of American Idol in this wickedly entertaining tell-all. Since the debut of American Idol, puckish Brit judge Simon Cowell has become America s most notorious critic not only on account of his incredible...

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Diary Of An Ordinary Woman

by Margaret Forster

Published: 2004

Paperback: 416 pages

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Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping

by Paco Underhill

Published: 2000-06-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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Is there a method to our madness when it comes to shopping? Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "a Sherlock Holmes for retailers," author and research company CEO Paco Underhill answers with a definitive "yes" in this witty, eye-opening report on our ever-evolving consumer culture. Wh...

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Adam Bede (Wordsworth Classics)

by George Eliot

Published: 2000-12-05

Paperback: 528 pages

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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts University of Kent at Canterbury 'Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your immediate feelings...' Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length...

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The Stone Carvers

by Jane Urquhart

Published: 2003-11-25

Paperback: 400 pages

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In 1867 a good-natured Bavarian priest, is sent by God and mad King Ludwig to the wilds of North America. Soon the backwoods are transformed into a parish and the settlers into a congregation, and Joseph Becker, a woodcarver, meets his future wife. Several decades later, Joseph Becker teaches his astounding...

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A Woman's Place Is at the Top: A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers

by Hannah Kimberley

Published: 2017-08-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereo...

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Mother's Milk

by Edward St Aubyn

Published: 2012-02-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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First published in 2006, Mother's Milk is the fourth novel in the critically acclaimed Patrick Melrose series. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize that year and won the 2007 Prix Femina Etranger and the 2007 South Bank Literature Award. The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril....

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Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance: A Novel

by Ruth Emmie Lang

Published: 2017-11-14

Hardcover: 352 pages

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"Exquisite and adventurous" ?Bustle, "11 New Fiction Books You Need""Told with brains and heart" ?Michelle Gable, New York Times bestselling author of A Paris Apartment"Bristles with charm and curiosity" ?Winston Groom, New York Times bestselling author of Forrest Gump"A wholly original an...

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Baltimore's Mansion

by Wayne Johnston

Published: 2000-05-16

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The acclaimed author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams introduces us to the Johnstons of Newfoundland in an intimate, captivating memoir of three generations of fathers and sons.The New York Times called Wayne Johnston's The Colony of Unrequited Dreams "an eventful, character-rich book......