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At Home in Mitford (The Mitford Years, Book 1)

by Jan Karon

Published: 2005-06-30

Paperback: 542 pages

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Enter the world of Mitford, and you wont' want to leave. But Father Tim, the local rector, is suddenly not so sure. A dog the size of a Buick follows him home and won't go away. A hostile boy is left in his care. His attractive new neighbor wears a path to his door, stirring feelings he hasn't felt in...

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At Home on Ladybug Farm

by Donna Ball

Published: 2009-10-06

Paperback: 344 pages

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From the award-winning author of A Year on Ladybug Farm comes the continuing story of three women who learn what it takes to turn a house into a home. A year after taking the chance of a lifetime, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget are still trying to make a home for themselves on the newly-renov...

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At Home: A Short History of Private Life

by Bill Bryson

Published: 2010-10-05

Hardcover: 512 pages

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From one of the most beloved authors of our  time?more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone?a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. ?Houses aren?t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.?  Bill Bryson and ...

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Hardcover: 512 pages

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From one of the most beloved authors of our� time?more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone?a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. ?Houses aren?t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.? �Bill Bryson and hi...

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At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Published: 2005-03-15

Paperback: 320 pages

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Knitting finally takes its rightful place on the spectrum of personal obsessions, alongside golfing, fishing, and gardening. The tangled life of the knitter is the subject of inspired nuttiness in these 300 tongue-in-cheek meditations from the self-proclaimed yarn harlot, Stephanie Pearl-M...

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At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life

by Wade Rouse

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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We all dream it. Wade Rouse actually did it. Finally fed up with the frenzy of city life and a job he hates, Wade Rouse decided to make either the bravest decision of his life or the worst mistake since his botched Ogilvie home perm: to uproot his life and try, as Thoreau did some 160 year...

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At Risk

by Alice Hoffman

Published: 1998-11-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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In a novel the Village Voice calls "memorable" and "striking," Alice Hoffman vividly portrays a family shattered by tragedy when eleven-year-old Amanda is diagnosed with AIDS... "Brilliant...explosive...heart-rending." --Chicago Tribune "Graceful...emotionally potent...A cathartic tale ...

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At Risk: A Novel

by Stella Rimington

Published: 2006-05-30

Paperback: 398 pages

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A terrorist is targeting Britain. And to make matters worse it’s an “invisible”--someone traveling under a British passport. Virtually impossible to find before it’s too late.The job falls to Liz Carlyle, the most resourceful counter terror agent in British intelli...

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At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel

by Jamie O'Neill

Published: 2002-04-01

Kindle Edition: 576 pages

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Praised as “a work of wild, vaulting ambition and achievement” by Entertainment Weekly, Jamie O’Neill’s first novel invites comparison to such literary greats as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Charles Dickens.Set during the year preceding the Easter Uprising of 1916—Ireland’s ...

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At the Drive-In Volcano

by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Published: 2007-05-30

Perfect Paperback: 85 pages

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"I can think of no other poet-except Neruda-who has inscribed the sensual world with such accurate charm. . . . Her poems are seriously delicious: toothsome and saucy, wise and mischievous."-Alice Fulton, author of Cascade Experiment This eagerly anticipated second collection of elegant ...