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The Burn Cookbook: An Unofficial Unauthorized Cookbook for Mean Girls Fans

by Jonathan Bennett, Nikki Martin

Published: 2018-10-02

Hardcover: 192 pages

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Real Recipes to Feed Your Inner PlasticTHE BURN COOKBOOK is a hilarious, delicious must-have cookbook for chefs (and wannabes) everywhere! Jonathan Bennett (that's right, Aaron Samuels himself) dishes out a tasty parody of Mean Girls, serving up behind-the-scenes stories from the movie alo...

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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul

by Eleanor Herman

Published: 2018-06-12

Hardcover: 304 pages

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One of Washington Independent Review of Books' 50 Favorite Books of 2018"Morbidly witty." ?Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times "You’ll be as appalled at times as you are entertained." ?Bustle, one of The 17 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out In June 2018"A heady mix of erudite history and d...

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Death of a Rainmaker: A Dust Bowl Mystery

by Laurie Loewenstein

Published: 2018-10-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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"The murder investigation allows Loewenstein to probe into the lives of proud people who would never expose their troubles to strangers. People like John Hodge, the town's most respected lawyer, who knocks his wife around, and kindhearted Etha Jennings, who surreptitiously delivers home-co...

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The Magnificent Ambersons (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

by Booth Tarkington

Published: 1998-09-14

Paperback: 288 pages

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeWinner of the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1918, The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great hist...

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What You See: A Jane Ryland Novel

by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Published: 2015-10-20

Kindle Edition: 383 pages

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Now an ANTHONY AWARD nominee!Best NovelNow an AGATHA AWARD nominee!Best Contemporary Novel BEST OF 2015!   Library Journal"Superb...highly entertaining."    Oline Cogdill  Orlando Sun-Sentinel  "A perfect mix of plot, suspense, emotion and character. It's flawlessl...

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Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington's First Love

by Mary Calvi

Published: 2019-02-12

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A novel about heiress Mary Philipse's relationship with George Washington, based on historical accounts, letters, and personal journals by nine-time New York Emmy Award-winning journalist Mary Calvi.“Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it canno...

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In a Free State: A Novel

by V. S. Naipaul

Published: 2002-02-12

Paperback: 256 pages

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No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and d...

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Waisted: A Novel

by Randy Susan Meyers

Published: 2019-05-21

Hardcover: 288 pages

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In this provocative, wildly entertaining, and compelling novel, seven women enrolled in an extreme weight loss documentary discover self-love and sisterhood as they enact a daring revenge against the exploitative filmmakers.Alice and Daphne, both successful and accomplished working mothers...

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The Lost Girls of Paris

by Pam Jenoff

Published: 2019-01-29

Paperback: 384 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller“Fraught with danger, filled with mystery, and meticulously researched, The Lost Girls of Paris is a fascinating tale of the hidden women who helped to win the war.” —Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were YoursFrom the author of ...

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Seven Ages of Paris

by Alistair Horne

Published: 2004-04-13

Paperback: 496 pages

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In this luminous portrait of Paris, the celebrated historian gives us the history, culture, disasters, and triumphs of one of the world’s truly great cities. While Paris may be many things, it is never boring. From the rise of Philippe Auguste through the reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIV...