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Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush

by Molly Ivins, Lou Dubose

Published: 2000-02-15

Hardcover: 179 pages

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When it comes to reporting on politics, nobody does it smarter or funnier than bestselling author Molly Ivins. In Shrub, Ivins focuses her Texas-size smarts on the biggest politician in her home state: George Walker Bush, or "Shrub," as Ivins has nicknamed Bush the Younger.        ...

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Good Night, Mr. Holmes: An Irene Adler Novel

by Carole Nelson Douglas

Published: 2009-11-10

Paperback: 384 pages

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Winner of the American Mystery Award for Best Novel of Romantic Suspense, and the Romantic Times Award for Best Historical MysteryMiss Irene Adler, the beautiful American opera singer who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes, is also a superb detective, as Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker can attest....

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Romancing the Vines: A Tale of Love, Lust, and Revenge

by Catherine MacDonald

Published: 2014-08-26

Paperback: 256 pages

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Francesca Bernard is a vintner in the Sonoma Valley who just can't seem to perfect her wine, her finances, and her love life. She finds herself torn between the man she lives with and the man she loves. A letter arrives from a long-lost cousin encouraging her to travel to Italy to uncover the secret...

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Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron

by Mimi Swartz, Sherron Watkins

Published: 2004-03-09

Paperback: 432 pages

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“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that ...

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One Vacant Chair: A Novel

by Joe Coomer

Published: 2008-09-30

Paperback: 273 pages

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One Vacant Chair by Joe CoomerIt's where you sit down that determines everything in life. Sarah's aunt Edna paints portraits of chairs. Not people in chairs, just chairs. The old house is filled with her paintings, and the chairs themselves surround her work?a silent yet vigilant audience....

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On the Beach (Vintage International)

by Nevil Shute

Published: 2010-01-22

Kindle Edition: 184 pages

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"The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off."THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEThey are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last day...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice

by Joan Biskupic

Published: 2006-11-07

Paperback: 421 pages

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Sandra Day O'Connor, America's first woman justice, was called the most powerful woman in America. She became the axis on which the Supreme Court turned, and it was often said that to gauge the direction of American law, one need look only to O'Connor's vote. Drawing on information gleaned...

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The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship

by Roger Friedland, Harold Zellman

Published: 2009-03-06

Kindle Edition: 720 pages

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Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy—from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the ...

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Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass

by Natalie MacLean

Published: 2006-08-29

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Award-winning writer Natalie MacLean sweeps readers behind the scenes of the international wine world, visiting its most evocative places and meeting its most charismatic personalities. Red, White, and Drunk All Over showcases the engaging wit, investigative curiosity, and sharp eye for ob...

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Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation

by William R. Polk

Published: 2006-03-14

Paperback: 240 pages

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The Dramatic History of Iraq in One Concise VolumeThe destinies of Iraq and America will be tightly intertwined into the foreseeable future due to the U.S. incursion into this complex, perplexing desert nation -- the latest in a long history of violent outside interventions. A country sitt...