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Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times As a Weatherman

by Cathy Wilkerson

Published: 2007-09

Hardcover: 432 pages

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?On the morning of March 6, 1970, in the subbasement of 18 W. 11th Street in Greenwich Village, a piece of ordinary water pipe, filled with dynamite, nails, and an electric blasting cap, ignited by mistake?? So begins this stunning memoir of a white middle-class girl from Connecticut who b...

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Flying Fish

by Vern Hobbs

Published: 2010-05-18

Paperback: 332 pages

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A deceptively worded referendum has robbed Juniper Key, Florida of its age-old livelihood – commercial fishing. The town divides, as some cling to the uncertain hope offered by shadowy real estate developers while others demand help from government bureaucrats who have no real plan and ...

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Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants: From the Man Who Brought You I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Muscle Beach Party

by Sam Arkoff, Richard Trubo

Published: 1992-07

Hardcover: 287 pages

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The Hollywood director responsible for I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Dressed to Kill, and many other films great and small shares his experiences with Bette Davis, Federico Fellini, Annette Funicello, and many others.

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The Flying Troutmans: A Novel

by Miriam Toews

Published: 2008-10-01

Hardcover: 275 pages

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Fobbit

by David Abrams

Published: 2012-09-04

Paperback: 372 pages

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Fobbit \’fä-bit\, noun. Definition: A U.S. soldier stationed at a Forward Operating Base who avoids combat by remaining at the base, esp. during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2011). Pejorative.In the satirical tradition of Catch-22 and M*A*S*H, Fobbit takes us into the chaotic world of ...

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Follow the River

by L. Kincavel

Published: 2011-07-27

Paperback: 222 pages

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Clem is a boy to whom everything goes wrong. He doesn't know it, but he's dyslexic and in a village hard hit by drought and disasters, he feels that there is no place for him - that is, till the oldest man in the village shows him a broken bridge and tells him about the river that used to flow there....

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Follow the River

by James Alexander Thom

Published: 2010-08-11

Kindle Edition: 416 pages

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Mary Ingles was twenty-three, married, and pregnant, when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement, killed the men and women, then took her captive. For months, she lived with them, unbroken, until she escaped, and followed a thousand mile trail to freedom--an extraordinary...

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Following Atticus: Forty-eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship

by Tom Ryan

Published: 2012-08-07

Paperback: 304 pages

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After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan decided to pay tribute to her in a most unorthodox manner. Ryan and his friend, miniature schnauzer Atticus M. Finch, would attempt to climb all forty-eight of New Hampshire’s four-thousand-foo...

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Following Ezra: What One Father Learned About Gumby, Otters, Autism, and Love From His Extraordinary Son

by Tom Fields-Meyer

Published: 2011-09-06

Paperback: 256 pages

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A heartwarming, intimate and amusing memoir of a father's experience raising his autistic son. When Tom Fields-Meyer's son Ezra was three and showing early signs of autism, a therapist suggested that the father needed to grieve."For what?" he asked.The answer: "For the child he didn't ...

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Following My Toes

by Laurel Osterkamp

Published: 2006-04-23

Paperback: 264 pages

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Even if nobody believes her, Faith Emerson knows she's psychic. After all, she totally saw it coming when Peter, her boyfriend of two years, dumped her for her best friend. Heartbroken, Faith needs a fresh start. So when her good friend Carolyn suggests she move from Duluth to Minneapolis, Faith...