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Back When Mary Alice Was Still a Blonde

by Robert F. Hastings

Published: 2010-11-24

Paperback: 280 pages

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Life is usually peaceful in Buford, Alabama-especially for Elba Rae Van Oaks. She teaches school, attends church, and typically leaves the drama to others. But when Elba Rae's mother takes her last breath, Elba Rae must reunite with the only person in the world with whom she has absolutely...

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* * * Slow,
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Back When We Were Grownups

by Anne Tyler

Published: 2004-10-26

Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages

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"Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." So Anne Tyler opens this irresistible new novel.The woman is Rebecca Davitch, a fifty-three-year-old grandmother. Is she an impostor in her own life? she asks herself. Is it indeed her own life?...

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Back When We Were Grownups: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Anne Tyler

Published: 2002-04-09

Paperback: 273 pages

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“A WONDERFUL NOVEL . . . Tyler’s eye and ear for familial give and take is unerring, her humanity irresistible. You’ll want to turn back to the first chapter the moment you finish the last.”–People (Page-Turner of the Week)“STUNNING . . . ‘Once upon a time,’ the story begin...

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Backfire (An FBI Thriller)

by Catherine Coulter

Published: 2012-07-10

Hardcover: 416 pages

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San Francisco Judge Ramsey Hunt, longtime friend to FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, is presiding over the trial of Clive and Cindy Cahill ? accused in a string of murders ? when the proceedings take a radical turn. Federal prosecutor Mickey O'Rourke, known for his relentless s...

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Backpacked: A Reluctant Trip Across Central America

by Catherine Ryan Howard

Published: 2011-08-31

Paperback: 278 pages

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The laugh-out-load new travel memoir from the bestselling author of Mousetrapped: A Year and A Bit in Orlando, Florida Catherine Ryan Howard prefers bath robes to bed bugs, lattes to lizards and mini-bars to malaria. So why is she going backpacking?  She doesn't know either...    ...

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* * * * Inspiring,
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Backseat Saints

by Joshilyn Jackson

Published: 2010-06-08

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Ro Grandee is the perfect Texas housewife. She’s determined to be nothing like her long-missing mother—the one who left her with only a heap of old novels and her father’s fists for company—so Ro keeps quiet and takes her husband’s punches like a lady. But Ro wasn’t always this way. Underneath...

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The Backside of Nowhere

by Mr. Alec Clayton

Published: 2009-06-16

Paperback: 278 pages

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A drama of family conflict unfolds during a hurricane in the bayou country near the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

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Backstab

by Elaine Viets

Published: 2000-09

Audio Cassette: 0 pages

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Columnist Francesca Vierling knows that reliable sources are hard to find, and now it's harder than ever, as her sources are suddenly coming up dead. Francesca's search for the killer takes her into the seamiest sidestreets of St. Louis--and back into a blood-stained past that threatens to cloud her...

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Backstairs at the White House (The Civil War in the Carolinas )

by Gwen Bagni; Paul Dubov

Published: 1979

Mass Market Paperback: 469 pages

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Two white house maids, a remarkable mother and her daughter, reveal what it was really like upstairs, downstairs at the white house.

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Backup

by Jim Butcher

Published: 2008-10-31

Hardcover: 72 pages

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Let's get something clear right up front.I'm not Harry Dresden.Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs...