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Bagpipe Brothers: The FDNY Band's True Story of Tragedy, Mourning and Recovery

by Kerry Sheridan

Published: 2006-03-20

Paperback: 264 pages

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After the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attacks, New York City's Emerald Society Bagpipe Band of firefighter-musicians took out their instruments and prepared to bury their dead??343 brothers in duty and in blood. Many firefighters alternated between playing their instruments at funera...

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* * * Romantic,
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Bah, Humbug! (A Romantic Comedy Christmas Novella)

by Heather Horrocks

Published: 2011-09-09

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PG-RATED FUNBAH, HUMBUG! (A Romantic Comedy Christmas Novella) Lexi Anderson is an up-and-coming, Martha Stewart-type TV hostess whose two kids love the Jared Strong adventure novels, which happen to be written by their new neighbor, Kyle Miller. For the first time in his writing career, K...

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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Published: 2005-09-06

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible rsum of a professional in transition, she attempts to land a middle-class job...

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Bake Sale Murder (Lucy Stone Mysteries, No. 13)

by Leslie Meier

Published: 2007-12-01

Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages

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Ever since local developer Fred Stanton and his wife, Mimi, built five modular homes next door to Lucy Stone's farmhouse, life just hasn't been the same. With Mimi complaining about everything from the state of Lucy's lawn to another neighbor's lovable dog, quaint Tinker's Cove, Maine, is ...

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Baker Towers CD: A Novel

by Jennifer Haigh

Published: 2005-01-01

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In a stunning follow-up to her bestselling debut, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh returns with Baker Towers, a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II. Born and raised on Bakerton's Polish Hill, the five Novak children come of age...

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Baker Towers: A Novel

by Jennifer Haigh

Published: 2006-01-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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Bakerton is a community of company houses and church festivals, of union squabbles and firemen's parades. Its neighborhoods include Little Italy, Swedetown, and Polish Hill. For its tight-knit citizens -- and the five children of the Novak family -- the 1940s will be a decade of excitement...

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The Baker's Apprentice

by Judith R. Hendricks

Published: 2005-04-01

Hardcover: 384 pages

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The sequel to Judith Ryan Hendricks' absorbing debut novel, Bread Alone Having found her calling, Wynter Morrison is blissful about her new career in Seattle as a baker -- cherishing the long days spent making bread and the comforting rhythms of the Queen Street Bakery. Still, she strug...

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The Baker's Daughter: A Novel

by Sarah McCoy

Published: 2012-01-24

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ranking Nazi who wishes to marry her. So when an escaped Je...

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The Baker's Wife

by Erin Healy

Published: 2011-10-04

Kindle Edition: 352 pages

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Before Audrey was the baker's wife, she was the pastor's wife.Then a scandalous lie cost her husband a pastoral career. Now the two work side-by-side running a bakery, serving coffee, and baking fresh bread. But the hurt still pulls at Audrey.Driving early one morning to the bakery, Audrey...

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The Baker's Apprentice: A Novel

by Judith R. Hendricks

Published: 2006-03-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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The sequel to Judith Ryan Hendricks' absorbing debut novel, Bread Alone Having found her calling, Wynter Morrison is blissful about her new career in Seattle as a baker -- cherishing the long days spent making bread and the comforting rhythms of the Queen Street Bakery. Still, she strug...