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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England

by Daniel Pool

Published: 1994-04-21

Paperback: 416 pages

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A “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs that governed life in Victorian England.For anyone w...

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What Keeps Me Standing: Letters from Black Grandmothers on Peace, Hope and Inspiration

by Dennis Kimbro

Published: 2005-04-05

Paperback: 288 pages

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In his previous bestsellers, Think and Grow Rich and What Makes the Great Great, Dennis Kimbro revealed the success secrets of highly touted entrepreneurs, corporate climbers, and Olympic athletes, as well as famous black Americans from George Washington Carver to Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey...

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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

by Pearl Cleage

Published: 2002-08

Paperback: 244 pages

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Ava Johnson has had a decade of wild living in Atlanta and now she's returning to her home town of Idylwild in Michigan, her fabulous career plans in tatters. Ava is certain that Idylwild is the end of the road for her, but instead it turns out to be a new beginning. She falls for Eddie, a tough, but...

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* * * Romantic,
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What Matters Most

by Luanne Rice

Published: 2007-07-17

Hardcover: 352 pages

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With every New York Times bestseller, Luanne Rice illuminates yet another of the secret wonders of the heart. Her unforgettable evocations of family, friendship, and loves lost and won in such novels as The Edge of Winter, Sandcastles, and Summer of Roses give voice to our most powerful em...

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What Moles Tell You About Yourself (Complete Guides series)

by Pietro Santini

Published: 2000-06-01

Paperback: 128 pages

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Tarot card reading, dream symbolism, astrology, and the reading of body characteristics are explored in depth, as is the use of objects, such as crystals and coffee grounds, significant in their ability to connect humans with another realm of existence. Other avenues into otherworldly expe...

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What Money Cant Buy

by Michael J. Sandel

Published: 2012-04-26

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Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to e...

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What Mother Never Told Me

by Donna Hill

Published: 2010-03-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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Raised in the Delta by her grandmother, Parris McKay has the voice of an angel and the promise of a bright, loving future with the man she adores. But everything Parris believes about her life is rocked to the core when she discovers that Emma, the mother she believed dead, is very much al...

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What Narcissism Means to Me: Poems

by Tony Hoagland

Published: 2003

Paperback: 78 pages

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An eagerly awaited new collection of poems by contemporary favorite Tony Hoagland, author of Donkey GospelHow did I come to believe in a government called Tony Hoagland?With an economy based on flattery and self-protection?and a sewage system of selective forgetting?and an extensive histor...

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What Now? CD

Published: 2008-05-01

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Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestselling author Ann Patchett offers hope and inspiration for anyone at a crossroads, whether graduating, changing careers, or transitioning from one life stage to another. With wit and candor, Pa...

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What on Earth Have I Done?: Stories, Observations, and Affirmations

by Robert Fulghum

Published: 2008-10-14

Paperback: 320 pages

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?My house in Seattle is across the street from an elementary school.  A high fence blocks my view, but I?m close enough to overhear conversations.  One morning?I heard a car door opened, then slammed shut?a woman's voice came blasting over the fence:  ?BILLY?WHAT?ON?EARTH?HAVE?YOU?DONE?...