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Mrs. Paine's Garage: And the Murder of John F. Kennedy

by Thomas Mallon

Published: 2003-11-10

Paperback: 240 pages

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Exactly forty years have passed since Ruth Hyde Paine, a Quaker housewife in suburban Dallas, offered shelter and assistance to a young man named Lee Harvey Oswald and his Russian wife, Marina. Mrs. Paine's Garage is the tragic story of this well-intentioned woman who found Oswald the job ...

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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm

by Betty MacDonald, Maurice Sendak

Published: 1985-08-09

Paperback: 128 pages

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Ms. Piggle-Wiggle's left her upside-down town house and has moved to a farm in the country. With the help of her cows and pigs and horses, she's still curing girls and boys of their bad habits. So whatever the problem-from pet forgetter-itis to fraidycat-ness-the parents all exclaim, "Bett...

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Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

by Kate Summerscale

Published: 2012-06-19

Hardcover: 320 pages

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"I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman?bodily and morally the husband's slave?a very doubtful happiness." ?Queen Victoria to her recently married daughter VickyHeadstrong, high-spirited, and already widowed, Isabella Walker became Mrs. Henry Robinson...

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Ms. Hempel Chronicles

by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Published: 2008-09-08

Hardcover: 193 pages

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Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Published: 2011-10-01

Paperback: 238 pages

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A vivacious woman and a high-spirited man both claim that they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, they begin to question whether their witty banter and sharp-tongued repartee conceals something deeper. Schemes...

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Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal

by Margaret Visser

Published: 2010-06-08

Paperback: 352 pages

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A staple of the food-writing genre that prefigured the current locavore and foodist movements by almost two decades, Margaret Visser'sMuch Depends on Dinneris a delightful and intelligent history of the food we eat, and a cornucopia of incredible details about the ways we do it.Presented a...

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Mudbound

by Hillary Jordan

Published: 2009-03-17

Paperback: 352 pages

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The International Bestseller Now a major motion picture from Netflix, directed by Dee Rees, nominated in four categories for the Academy Awards. In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children...

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Mudwoman: A Novel

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 2013-02-05

Paperback: 480 pages

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Mudgirl is a child abandoned in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate—or destiny. After her rescue, the well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine her poisonous history behind the barrier of their middle-class values. But the...

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Muerto hasta el anochecer/ Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse) (Spanish Edition)

by Charlaine Harris

Published: 2009-10-15

Paperback: 384 pages

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Description in Spanish: No es facil ser una camarera sexy con poderes telepaticos y enterarse de los terribles secretos que todo el mundo esconde. Tal vez por eso Sookie Stackhouse termina enamorandose de Bill Compton, cuya mente no puede leer. Sookie suspira de felicidad por haber encont...

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Muffins and Mayhem: Recipes for a Happy (if Disorderly) Life

by Suzanne Beecher

Published: 2010-06-01

Hardcover: 256 pages

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"While it's well known that food and stories make for a great combination, Muffins & Mayhem takes their relationship to a whole new level. Brimming over with the stuff of life, this is a book to curl up with and devour." ?JOEL BEN IZZY, storyteller and author of The Beggar King and The Sec...