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Elvis: My Best Man: Radio Days, Rock 'n' Roll Nights, and My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley

by George Klein, Chuck Crisafulli

Published: 2010-01-05

Hardcover: 320 pages

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When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn?t have known how important the new kid with the guitar?the boy named Elvis?would later become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he was nicknamed by Elvis) heard this kid sing, he knew that Elvis Presley was someone e...

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The Emancipator's Wife (A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln)

by Barbara Hambly

Published: 2008-03-25

Mass Market Paperback: 816 pages

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As a girl growing up in Kentucky, she lived a sheltered, privileged life filled with picnics and plantation balls. Vivacious, impulsive, and intoxicated by politics, she is a Todd of Lexington, an aristocratic family whose ancestors defeated the British. But no one knows her secret fears ...

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An Embarassment of Mangoes

by Ann Vanderhoof

Published: 2005-01-03

Paperback: 329 pages

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Who hasn't fantasized about leaving their job, saying goodbye to the rat race and escaping to some exotic destination in search of sun, sand, and a different way of life? Ann Vanderhoof and her husband did just that. In the mid 1990s, the author and her husband were driven, forty-something professionals...

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An Embarrassment of Mangoes: A Caribbean Interlude

by Ann Vanderhoof

Published: 2005-02-08

Paperback: 305 pages

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Under the Tuscan Sun meets the wide-open sea . . . An Embarrassment of Mangoes is a delicious chronicle of leaving the type-A lifestyle behind -- and discovering the seductive secrets of life in the Caribbean.Who hasn?t fantasized about chucking the job, saying goodbye to the rat race, and...

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Embassytown

by China Miéville

Published: 2012-01-31

Paperback: 368 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embas...

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Embers

by Sándor Márai

Published: 2002-08-13

Paperback: 224 pages

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Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisitely structured novel by the Hungarian master Sandor Marai conjures the melancholy glamour of a decaying empire and the disillusioned wisdom of its last heirs. In a secluded woodland castle an ...

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Embezzlement: A True Crime Story

by Kevin Cross, Steve White

Published: 2010-04

Paperback: 192 pages

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This story is true. The names of some individuals have been changed to protect their identities. Kevin Cross's life story involves all the trappings of greed, betrayal,and the quest for happiness. People are all desperately grasping forsomething better as they travel through life. We buy ...

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Embraced by the Father: Finding Grace in the Names of God

by Susanne Scheppmann

Published: 2010-03-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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Women instinctively seek security. They want to feel loved and protected by someone who cares for them. For many women, their earthly fathers failed miserably in this role. In Embraced by the Father, Susanne Scheppmann explains how God invites every woman to dance with Him as a daughter might stand on...

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Embraced by the Light

by Betty J. Eadie

Published: 2002-10-29

Paperback: 208 pages

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On the night of November 19, 1973, following surgery, thirty-one-year-old wife and mother Betty J. Eadie died.... This is her extraordinary story of the events that followed, her astonishing proof of life after physical death. She saw more, perhaps than any other person has seen before and...

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Embroideries

by Marjane Satrapi

Published: 2006-04-18

Paperback: 144 pages

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From the best'selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane's tough?talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afte...