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The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel

by Steve Martin

Published: 2003-10-01

Kindle Edition: 163 pages

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From the bestselling author of Shopgirl comes the tender story of a troubled man who finds love, and life, in the most unexpected place.Daniel resides in his Santa Monica apartment, living much of his life as a bystander: He watches from his window as the world goes by, and his only relati...

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Pleasure Seekers

by Rochelle Alers

Published: 2007-01-01

Paperback: 546 pages

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Ilene is a captivatingly beautiful supermodel, Faye is an award-winning advertising executive and Alana is a brilliant editor for today's hottest fashion magazine. Now all three women are caught in the whirlwind of the super rich and famous. They find themselves the objects of the desires ...

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The Pleasure Seekers: A Novel

by Tishani Doshi

Published: 2010-08-31

Paperback: 314 pages

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"This is a captivating, delightful novel. I was totally engaged by Tishani Doshi's people and by their world, and the language often rises—when speaking of the great matters, life, death, and above all love—to powerful metaphorical heights."—Salman Rushdie Meet the Patel-Joneses—Babo, Sian,...

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The Pleasure Was Mine

by Tommy Hays

Published: 2006-02-21

Paperback: 272 pages

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Prate Marshbanks proposed to Irene on a muggy July night at Pete s Drive-in back in 52. A college graduate and daughter of a prominent lawyer, Irene was an unlikely match for Prate, a housepainter. That their marriage not only survived for fifty years, but flourished, is a source of constant wonder...

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The Pledge

by Kimberly Derting

Published: 2011-11-15

Hardcover: 336 pages

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In the violent country of Ludania, the language you speak determines what class you are, and there are harsh punishments if you forget your place?looking a member of a higher class in the eye can result in immediate execution. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina (Charlie for short) can understand...

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Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around

by Cheryl Wagner

Published: 2009-05-01

Paperback: 242 pages

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"Print and public-radio journalist Wagner describes rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina...Despite Kafkaesque experiences with the infamous bureaucratic mess that threatened to undo New Orleans once and for all, the couple held on to their optimism for the city and their little piece of it. ...

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Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet

by Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon

Published: 2008-04-22

Paperback: 272 pages

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The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment.When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500 mil...

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Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally

by Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon

Published: 2007-04-24

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Like many great adventures, the 100-mile diet began with a memorable feast. Stranded in their off-the-grid summer cottage in the Canadian wilderness with unexpected guests, Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon turned to the land around them. They caught a trout, picked mushrooms, and mulled appl...

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The Plot Against America

by Philip Roth

Published: 200

Hardcover: 391 pages

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A BookPage Notable TitleIn this alternate history, Pulitzer Prize-winner Roth considers what it would be like for his Newark family--and for a million such families all over the country--during the menacing years of a Charles Lindbergh presidency, when American citizens who happened to be ...

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The Plots Against the President: FDR, A Nation in Crisis, and the Rise of the American Right

by Sally Denton

Published: 2012-01-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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In March 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt finally became the nation's thirty-second president. The man swept in by a landslide four months earlier now took charge of a country in the grip of panic brought on by economic catastrophe. Though no one yet knew it-not even Roosevelt-it was a radi...