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Born Under an Assumed Name: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy's Daughter

by Sara Mansfield Taber

Published: 2012-02-28

Hardcover: 396 pages

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From literary journalist Sara Mansfield Taber comes a deep and wondrous memoir of her exotic childhood as the daughter of a covert CIA operative. Born under an Assumed Name portrays the thrilling and confusing life of a girl growing up abroad in a world of secrecy and diplomacy?and the hea...

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Borrowed Time

by CJ Lyons

Published: 2011-05-03

Paperback: 294 pages

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New York Times Bestselling Author CJ Lyons has been praised as a "master of the genre" (Pittsburgh Magazine) for her "breathtakingly fast-paced" (Publishers Weekly) romantic medical thrillers. Pittsburgh Police Officer Kate O'Hern is on the trail of a killer targeting cops. Only proble...

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* * * * Optimistic,
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The Borrower: A Novel

by Rebecca Makkai

Published: 2012-05-29

Paperback: 352 pages

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"Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower." —Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire FallsLucy Hull, a children’s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron,...

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The Borrowers

by Mary Norton

Published: 2003-04-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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The Borrowers—the Clock family: Homily, Pod, and their fourteen-year-old daughter, Arrietty, to be precise—are tiny people who live underneath the kitchen floor of an old English country manor. All their minuscule home furnishings, from postage stamp paintings to champagne cork chairs,...

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Boss of Bosses: The FBI and Paul Castellano

by Joseph F. O'Brien, Andris Kurins

Published: 1992-05-01

Mass Market Paperback: 382 pages

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* * * Fun,
Boring,
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Bossypants

by Tina Fey

Published: 2013-01-29

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.She ha...

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The Bostonians (Modern Library Classics)

by Henry James

Published: 2003-12-09

Paperback: 496 pages

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This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her ...

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* * * Informative,
Slow,
Unconvincing

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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

by Michael Pollan

Published: 2002-05-28

Paperback: 271 pages

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The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in AmericaEvery schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The ...

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Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It

by Maile Meloy

Published: 2010-07-06

Paperback: 256 pages

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One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2009-- now adapted into the feature film Certain Women, starring Kristen Stewart-- award-winning writer Maile Meloy's short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers. Meloy...

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* * * * Romantic,
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The Botticelli Secret (Reading Group Gold)

by Marina Fiorato

Published: 2010-03-30

Paperback: 544 pages

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In this exhilarating cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Birth of Venus, an irrepressible young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli...When part-time model and full-time prostitute Luci...