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Starting from Scratch: A Novel

by Susan Gilbert-Collins

Published: 2010-08-03

Paperback: 336 pages

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Why is someone who just defended her doctoral dissertation still wasting her time at her childhood home, two months after her mother's funeral, making coq au vin and osso buco? Olivia Tschetter, the youngest of four high-achieving South Dakotan siblings, is not returning to ?normal??or to ...

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* * * * * Graphic,
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Starvation Lake: A Mystery

by Bryan Gruley

Published: 2009-03-03

Paperback: 370 pages

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In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the crumbling, small town of Starvation Lake -- the same snowmobile that went down with Starvation's legendary hockey coach years earlier. But everybody knows Coach Blackburn's accident happened five miles away on a diff...

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* * Confusing,
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Stash

by David Matthew Klein

Published: 2010-07-27

Paperback: 371 pages

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From Debut Novelist David Klein – A Page-Turning Story of Suburbia and Its Secrets Gwen Raine is a woman readers will instantly recognize: an attractive, thirtyish stay-at-home mom who lives in the kind of tranquil suburban community where the wives spend their days ferrying the kids to...

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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

by Anna Funder

Published: 2011-09-20

Paperback: 288 pages

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“Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. Aclassic.” —Claire Tomalin, Guardian “Books ofthe Year” AnnaFunder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of theresistance against East Germ...

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State of Denial

by Bob Woodward

Published: 2006-09-30

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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"Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year." This was the secret Pentagon assessment sent to the White House in May 2006. The forecast of a more violent 2007 in Iraq contradicted the repeated...

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* * * * Informative,
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State of Fear

by Michael Crichton

Published: 2005-11-01

Mass Market Paperback: 672 pages

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In Tokyo, in Los Angeles, in Antarctica, in the Solomon Islands . . . an intelligence agent races to put all the pieces together to prevent a global catastrophe.

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* * * Fun,
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State of the Onion (A White House Chef Mystery)

by Julie Hyzy

Published: 2008-01-02

Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages

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Introducing White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras, who is rising-and sleuthing-to the top. Includes recipes for a complete presidential menu! Never let them see you sweat-that's White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras's motto, which is pretty hard to honor in the most important kitchen ...

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State of the Union: A Thriller

by Brad Thor

Published: 2005-05-24

Mass Market Paperback: 560 pages

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America's worst nightmare has just become a brutal reality. The most unlikely terrorist enemy of all now holds a knife against the country's throat. With both diplomatic and conventional military options swept from the table, the president of the United States calls upon America's only hop...

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* * * * Adventurous,
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State of Wonder: A Novel

by Ann Patchett

Published: 2014-09-16

Paperback: 448 pages

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In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual transformations, State of Wonder presents a world of stunning surprise and danger, rich in emotional resonance and moral complexity.As Dr. Marina Singh embarks upon an uncertain odyssey into the...

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The Statement

by Brian Moore

Published: 1997

Paperback: 256 pages

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Set in the south of France and in Paris during the early 1990s, "The Statement" is the riveting tale of Pierre Brossard, a former officer in the pro-Fascist militia, which served Vichy in its most shameful aspect, and a murderer of Jews. Based on the real-life case of Paul Touvier, a French...