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Wednesday's Child (A Day to Remember Series #3)

by Linda Chaikin

Published: 2000-11-15

Paperback: 444 pages

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For Gemma Alcott, daughter of business tycoon Burgess T. Alcott, III, the summer of 1929 is a season for picnics, sailing parties, and romance. But life becomes difficult when the Alcott wealth is lost in the Wall Street crash known as Black Tuesday. Gemma and her younger sister, Melody...

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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Mystery (Flavia De Luce Mysteries)

by Alan Bradley

Published: 2010-03-09

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From Dagger Award?winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction's most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This ...

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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia De Luce Mystery 2)

by Alan Bradley

Published: 2010-04-15

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The story opens with the immortal words 'I was lying dead in the churchyard' (spoken, astonishingly, by Flavia herself) and ends with a funeral watched by the De Luce family on a newly-installed television set. Inbetween, Alan Bradley weaves a hauntingly nightmarish tale that involves Pun...

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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: A Flavia de Luce Novel

by Alan Bradley

Published: 2011-02-08

Paperback: 400 pages

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Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are over—until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfo...

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A Week at the Airport (Vintage International Original)

by Alain De Botton

Published: 2010-09-21

Paperback: 112 pages

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From the bestselling author of The Art of Travel comes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place" that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization.Given unprecedented access to one of the world's busiest airports as a ?writer-in-residence,? Alain de Botton fo...

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A Week in December

by Sebastian Faulks

Published: 2010-03-09

Hardcover: 400 pages

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From the author of the bestselling Birdsong comes a powerful novel that melds the moral heft of Dickens and the scrupulous realism of Trollope with the satirical spirit of Tom Wolfe. London: the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a h...

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A Week in the Woods

by Andrew Clements

Published: 2004-04-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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Collision course The fifth-grade Week in the Woods is a beloved tradition of Hardy Elementary, where Mark Chelmsley (the Fourth) is pretty much killing time before his parents send him off to an exclusive prep school. But then Mark realizes the Week might be a chance to prove to Mr. Maxwe...

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The Weekend That Changed Wall Street: An Eyewitness Account

by Maria Bartiromo

Published: 2010-09-07

Hardcover: 240 pages

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America's most famous business reporter gives her unique perspective on the white-knuckle weekend that brought the financial world to its knees. During a single historic weekend (September 12-14, 2008) the fate of Lehman Brothers was sealed, Merrill Lynch barely survived, and AIG bec...

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Weekend Warriors

by Fern Michaels

Published: 2004-07-01

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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JUSTICE HAS A NEW OUTFIT   Life isn’t fair. Most women know it. But what can you do about it? Plenty…if you’re part of the Sisterhood. On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be—but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues t...

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The Weekend: A Novel

by Bernhard Schlink

Published: 2010-10-12

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They excavate old memories and pass clandestine judgments on the wildly divergent paths they?ve taken since their youth. But this isn?t just any reunion, and their conversations about the...