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Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West

by Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, Nancy Curtis

Published: 2004-05-18

Paperback: 336 pages

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Crazy Woman Creek is a collection of prose and poetry about real women in the West and their connection to a larger whole. Long troubled by the misguided images of skinny cowgirls on prancing palominos, the editors embarked on a mission to set the record straight. They wanted these western...

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* * * * Persuasive,
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Open and Shut

by David Rosenfelt

Published: 2003-05-01

Mass Market Paperback: 305 pages

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"There is nothing like a golden retriever. I know, I know, it's a big planet with a lot of wonderful things, but golden retrievers are the absolute best. Mine is named Tara . . . The only problem she has ever caused is that I spend so much time with her in the mornings that I am almost inv...

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* * * * Beautiful,
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Red Tent

by Anita Diamant

Published: 2002-03-08

Paperback: 336 pages

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Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her fate is merely hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the verses of the "Book of Genesis" that recount the life of Jacob and his infamous dozen sons. The "Red Tent" is an extraordinary and engrossing tale of ancient womanhood and family honour. Told in Dinah's...

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The Olive Farm

by Carol Drinkwater

Published: 2001-06-07

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This is television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical account of a new life in France; about her house, Appassionata, and the trials and tribulations of acquiring an olive farm, restoring it, farming the olives, overcoming the heartaches of taking on a "new" French family and understanding slowly the...

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Last Train to Memphis

by Peter Guralnick

Published: 1995-02-01

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Peter Guralnick reconstructs the early years in the life of Elvis Presley, giving us a fresh, realistic look at Elvis through the first twenty-four years of his life. Filled with great stories, Guralnick takes us from Elvis' humble beginnings, through his teen years to his first recordings with Sam...

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* * Confusing

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She Matters

by Susanna Sonnenberg

Published: 2013-01-08

Kindle Edition: 272 pages

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The New York Times called Susanna Sonnenberg “immensely gifted,” and Vogue, “scrupulously unsentimental.” Entertainment Weekly described Sonnenberg’s Her Last Death as “a bracing memoir about growing up rich and glamorous with a savagely inappropriate mother.” Now, Sonnenberg...

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The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again: A Novel

by Nancy Thayer

Published: 2005-09-27

Paperback: 368 pages

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The fabulous women from The Hot Flash Club are back in top form, welcoming the stressed-out and pampering-deprived through their discreet spa doors?as Nancy Thayer returns with a witty, sexy, and heartwarming novel. The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again also introduces four new women, ready for...

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Of Love and Other Demons

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Published: 1995

Hardcover: 147 pages

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Coral Glynn: A Novel

by Peter Cameron

Published: 2012-02-28

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Coral Glynn arrives at Hart House, an isolated manse in the English countryside, early in the very wet spring of 1950, to nurse the elderly Mrs. Hart, who is dying of cancer. Hart House is also inhabited by Mrs. Prence, the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs....

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Umbrella

by Will Self

Published: 2013-01-08

Hardcover: 448 pages

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"A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella."?James Joyce, UlyssesRadical and uncompromising, Umbrella is a tour de force from one of England?s most acclaimed contemporary writers, and Self?s most ambitious novel to date. Moving between Edwardian London and a suburban mental hospital ...