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The Patron Saint of Liars

by Ann Patchett

Published: 2011-04-19

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Since her first publication in 1992, celebrated novelist Ann Patchett has crafted a number of elegant novels, garnering accolades and awards along the way. Now comes a beautiful reissue of the best-selling debut novel that launched her remarkable career.St. Elizabeth's, a home for unwed ...

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The Patron Saint of Liars: A Novel (P.S.)

by Ann Patchett

Published: 2007-09-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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St. Elizabeth's is a home for unwed mothers in the 1960s. Life there is not unpleasant, and for most, it is temporary. Not so for Rose, a beautiful, mysterious woman who comes to the home pregnant but not unwed. She plans to give up her baby because she knows she cannot be the mother it n...

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Pattern Recognition

by William Gibson

Published: 2005-02-01

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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The accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to-coast bestseller. Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the now.The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, Pattern Reco...

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Patty Jane's House of Curl

by Lorna Landvik

Published: 1999-06-28

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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Patty Jane Dobbin should have known better than to marry a man as gorgeous as Thor Rolvaag, but she was too smitten to think twice. Yet nine months into their marriage, with a baby on the way, Thor is gone. It's a good thing Patty Jane has her irrepressible sister, Harriet, to rely on. For it's been...

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Paul Newman: A Life

by Shawn Levy

Published: 2009-05-05

Hardcover: 496 pages

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Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Verdict, The Color of Money, an...

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Paula

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2005-09-05

Paperback: 384 pages

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Paula es el libro m�s conmovedor, m�s personal y m�s �ntimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que mor�a su hija Paula, la gran narradora chilena escribi� la historia de su familia y de si misma con el prop�sito de regal�rsela a Paula cuando �sta superara la enfermedad.

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Paula (Spanish Edition)

by Isabel Allende

Published: 1996-04-24

Paperback: 368 pages

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Paula es una memoria encarnada que atrapa al lector como una novela de suspenso. Cuando la hija de Isabel Allend, Paula, cay� en coma gravemente enferma, la autora comenz� a escribir la historia de su familia para su hija inconsciente.En el desarrollo de la historia aparecen ante nostros a...

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Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'

by Paula Deen, Sherry Suib Cohen

Published: 2007-04-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Do you know the real Paula Deen? You may think you know the butter-loving, finger-licking, joke-cracking queen of melt-in-your-mouth Southern cuisine. You may have even visited The Lady & Sons to taste for yourself the down-home delicacies that made her famous and even heard some version o...

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Paula: A Memoir (P.S.)

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2013-05-07

Paperback: 360 pages

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When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of...

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Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark

by Brian Kellow

Published: 2011-10-27

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year The first biography of The New Yorker's influential, powerful, and controversial film critic. A decade after her death, Pauline Kael remains the most important figure in film criticism today, in part due to her ow...