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The Obamas

by Jodi Kantor

Published: 2012-01-10

Hardcover: 368 pages

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When Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, he also won a long-running debate with his wife Michelle. Contrary to her fears, politics now seemed like a worthwhile, even noble pursuit. Together they planned a White House life that would be as normal and sane as possible.Then they ...

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Obedience: A Novel

by Will Lavender

Published: 2008-02-19

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Obernewtyn: The Obernewtyn Chronicles 1

by Isobelle Carmody

Published: 2008-12-09

Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages

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In a world struggling back from the brink of apocalypse, life is harsh. And for Elspeth Gordie, it is also dangerous. That's because Elspeth has a secret: she is a Misfit, born with mysterious mental abilities that she must keep hidden under threat of death. And her worries only multiply when she is...

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Object Lessons (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Anna Quindlen

Published: 1997-06-23

Paperback: 288 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR"Elaborate and playful...Honest and deeply felt....Here is the Quindlen wit, the sharp eye for the details of class and manners, [and] the ardent reading of domestic lives."-THE NEW YORK TIMESIt is the 1960s, in suburban New York City. Maggie and he...

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An Object of Beauty: A Novel

by Steve Martin

Published: 2010-11-23

Kindle Edition: 304 pages

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Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension...

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Object of Virtue: A Novel

by Nicholas B.A. Nicholson

Published: 2004-04-06

Paperback: 284 pages

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A dazzling debut about the power of family and the pain of betrayal set within Manhattan's Fifth Avenue apartments, the opulent mansions of the new Moscow, and the pre-revolutionary palaces of Saint Petersburg. Sasha Ozerovsky is a young expert in Russian art at Leighton's, an exclusive ...

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Objects of My Affection: A Novel

by Jill Smolinski

Published: 2013-03-05

Paperback: 336 pages

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Lucy Bloom is broke, freshly dumped by her boyfriend, and is forced to sell her house to send her nineteen-year-old son to drug rehab. Although she’s lost it all, she’s determined to start over. So when she’s offered a high-paying gig helping clear the clutter from the huge home of r...

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Obliged to Help: Adolphine Fletcher Terry and the Progressive South

by Stephanie Bayless

Published: 2011-09-07

Hardcover: 168 pages

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Author Stephanie Bayless examines why this Southern aristocratic matron, the daughter of a Confederate soldier, tirelessly devoted herself to improving the lives of others and, in so doing, became a model for activism across the South. It is the first work of its kind to consider Terry's lifelong...

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Oblivion

by Peter Abrahams

Published: 2006-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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Nick Petrov was a world-famous private investigator -- until a brain trauma destroyed part of his memory and changed who he is forever. Now a killer is on the loose, looming up from a past that Nick can no longer remember.

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Oblivion : Stories

by David Foster Wallace

Published: 2005-08-30

Paperback: 336 pages

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The first new fiction in five years from one of the most prodigiously talented and original writers at work today. In the stories that make up OBLIVION, David Foster Wallace conjoins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite convolutions of self-consciousness--a combination that i...