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After the Peace (Spoils of War)

by Fay Weldon

Published: 2018-11-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbor; and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor. Or not so anonymous, as it turned out. For donor...

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Trust: Twenty Ways to Build a Better Country

by David Johnston

Published: 2018-10-09

Hardcover: 240 pages

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From our esteemed former Governor General--and author of the bestsellers The Idea of Canada and Ingenious--a very timely guide for restoring personal, community, and national trust.Trust is a much-needed manual for the repair and restoration of the social quality on which all democracies r...

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Sea Over Bow: A North Atlantic Crossing

by Linda Kenyon

Published: 2018-10-15

Paperback: 240 pages

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After her marriage of 25 years ended badly, Linda Kenyon was determined to never put herself in the way of a broken heart again. But then she met an extraordinary man, and in an act of great courage -- or foolishness -- decided to sell everything she owned and sail across the ocean with him. Sea Over...

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This Could Hurt: A Novel

by Jillian Medoff

Published: 2018-01-09

Hardcover: 384 pages

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“Periodically a writer captures the pattern of comedy and tragedy that peppers office life like alternating colors of carpet squares. . . . As smart as Medoff’s critique of corporate inanity is, it’s tempered by compassion for these people, who are ultimately tender with each other, ...

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Run You Down: A Novel (Rebekah Roberts Novels Book 2)

by Julia Dahl

Published: 2015-06-30

Kindle Edition: 287 pages

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Aviva Kagan was just a teenager when she left her Hasidic Jewish life in Brooklyn for a fling with a smiling college boy from Florida-and then disappeared. Twenty-three years later, the child she walked away from is a NYC tabloid reporter named Rebekah Roberts. And Rebekah isn't sure she w...

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Funny Woman (A Midland Book)

by Barbara W. Grossman

Published: 1992-08-22

Paperback: 304 pages

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Fanny Brice (1891-1951) was a truly popular entertainer, with a career that spanned four decades. She was a hit in almost every branch of American show business?burlesque and vaudeville, drama and musical revues (including nine Ziegfeld Follies), film and radio. She is most often remembere...

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An Inconvenient Woman: A Novel

by Dominick Dunne

Published: 2012-02-22

Kindle Edition: 480 pages

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Jules Mendelson is wealthy. Astronomically so. He and his wife lead the kind of charity-giving, art-filled, high-society life for which each has been carefully groomed. Until Jules falls in love with Flo March, a beautiful actress/waitress. What Flo discovers about the superrich is not a pretty sight....

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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss: A Novel

by Rajeev Balasubramanyam

Published: 2019-03-26

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Follow the eccentric, cantakerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy? “Searingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful . . . Professor Chandra is as unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages ...

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The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World

by Robert Kagan

Published: 2018-09-18

Hardcover: 192 pages

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"An incisive, elegantly written, new book about America’s unique role in the world." --Tom Friedman, The New York TimesA brilliant and visionary argument for America's role as an enforcer of peace and order throughout the world--and what is likely to happen if we withdraw and focus our ...

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Every Monday Matters: How to Kick Your Week Off with Passion, Purpose, and Positivity (Ignite Reads)

by Matthew Emerzian

Published: 2019-01-01

Hardcover: 176 pages

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Change Your Life One Monday at a TimeFor everyone inspired by Ignite Your Truth; Present Over Perfect; Girl, Wash Your Face and Girl, Stop Apologizing, You are a Badass, comes Every Monday Matters: How to Kick Your Week Off with Passion, Purpose, and Positivity-your guide to self and socia...