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Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal (Chinese Edition)

by Julie Metz

Published: 2010-03

Paperback: 342 pages

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A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel (P.S.)

by Lionel Shriver

Published: 2007-07-03

Paperback: 277 pages

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Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as ...

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Perfectly Plum: An Unauthorized Celebration of the Life, Loves and Other Disasters of Stephanie Plum, Trenton Bounty Hunter (Smart Pop series)

Published: 2007-06-01

Paperback: 185 pages

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** COMPLETELY UNAUTHORIZED ** Speculating about the cultural metaphors in Janet Evanovich's wildly popular mystery series (which includes 11 books, from One for the Money to Eleven on Top), this anthology takes a look at lingerie-buyer-turned-bounty-hunter Stephanie Plum and catalogs ...

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The Perfectly True Tales of a Perfect Size 12

by Robin Gold

Published: 2007-01-30

Paperback: 260 pages

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Delilah White's perfect New York life is about to take a tumble . . . but change is good, right? Right?!? Delilah White, television's semi-famous (to her own shock) and completely endearing Domestic Diva, likes herself just the way she is: a perfect size twelve. When her boss announces th...

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Perfume

by Patrick Süskind

Published: 2006-11-30

Paperback: 272 pages

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Perfume (MTI)

by Patrick Suskind

Published: 2006-11-07

Paperback: 255 pages

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An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean...

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Vintage International)

by Patrick Suskind

Published: 2001-02-13

Paperback: 255 pages

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An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind’s classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Ba...

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The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefwazi (Forgotten Books)

by Shaykh William Nefwazi

Published: 2008-05-07

Paperback: 180 pages

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The Perfumed Garden by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi is a sex manual and work of erotic literature. The full title of the book is The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight (al-rawd al-'atir fi nuzhati'l khatir).The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be at...

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The Perils of Pursuing a Prince (Desperate Debutantes)

by Julia London

Published: 2010-01-26

Paperback: 384 pages

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From New York Times bestselling author Julia London comes the second novel in her irresistibly romantic Desperate Debutantes trilogy, in which three suddenly destitute aristocratic young ladies must resort to desperate means to keep up appearances...and find the husbands of their dreams.La...

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Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc

by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Published: 2012-02-28

Paperback: 448 pages

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Like the alphabet, the calendar, or the zodiac, the periodic table of the chemical elements has a permanent place in our imagination. But aside from the handful of common ones (iron, carbon, copper, gold), the elements themselves remain wrapped in mystery. We do not know what most of them...