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Bookmarks: A Companion Text for Like Water for Chocolate (Bookmarks: Fluency through Novels)

by Janet Marie Giannotti

Published: 1999-12-07

Paperback: 152 pages

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The Books of Bayern Box Set, Books 1-3

by Shannon Hale

Published: 2009-09-15

Paperback: 1120 pages

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The first three books in the highly acclaimed Books of Bayern series are now available in a beautiful boxed set. It all began with the retelling of a Grimm's fairy tale in The Goose Girl, and now the world of Bayern is rich with fairy tales all its own. Fans will be delighted with this pac...

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Books: A Memoir

by Larry McMurtry

Published: 2009-07-14

Paperback: 272 pages

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In a prolific life of singular literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded in a variety of genres: in coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show; in collections of essays like In a Narrow Grave; and in the reinvention of the Western on a grand scale in his Pulitzer Prize-winnin...

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Bookseller of Kabul

by Seierstad

Published: 2003

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The Bookseller of Kabul

by Asne Seierstad

Published: 2004-10-26

Paperback: 288 pages

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This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller...

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The Bookseller: The First Hugo Marston Novel

by Mark Pryor

Published: 2012-10-09

Paperback: 303 pages

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Who is killing the celebrated bouquinistes of Paris?Max—an elderly Paris bookstall owner—is abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks on helplessly, powerless to do anything to stop the kidnapper. Marston launches a search, enlisting th...

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The Bookshop

by Penelope Fitzgerald

Published: 1997-09-15

Paperback: 123 pages

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In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By dari...

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Boom!: Talking About the Sixties: What Happened, How It Shaped Today, Lessons for Tomorrow

by Tom Brokaw

Published: 2008-10-14

Paperback: 662 pages

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In Boom!, Tom Brokaw, one of America's premier journalists and the acclaimed author of The Greatest Generation, gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America: the tumultuous Sixties. The voices and stories of both famous people and ordinary citizens come together in this ?vi...

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Boom!: Voices of the Sixties Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today

by Tom Brokaw

Published: 2007-11-06

Hardcover: 688 pages

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In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in Am...

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The Boomer Burden: Dealing with Your Parents' Lifetime Accumulation of Stuff

by Julie Hall

Published: 2008-06-01

Paperback: 228 pages

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A practical guide to advise Baby Boomers how to deal with the daunting task of facing a parents' eventual passing as it relates to residential contents, heirlooms, and the often difficult family interactions and feuds that accompany them. With fascinating stories and comprehensive checkli...