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Standoff

by Sandra Brown

Published: 2013-04-30

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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Ambitious TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving through New Mexico when she hears over the radio that Sabra Dendy, the 17 year-old daughter of Fort Worth multimillionaire Russell Dendy, has been kidnapped. Tiel calls her editor and learns that Sara was "kidnapped" by her boyfriend Ronnie and i...

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Boomerang Bride

by Fiona Lowe

Published: 2012-12-18

Paperback: 352 pages

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Matilda Geoffrey had risked it all for love.She'd left Australia to be with Barry—the man who had swept her off her virtual feet. Now, wearing a wedding dress, she's alone on Main Street in small-town Wisconsin, and things aren't working out exactly as planned….In town for his annual f...

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Justine: A Novel (Penguin Ink) (Alexandria Quartet)

by Lawrence Durrell

Published: 2011-05-31

Paperback: 256 pages

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The Egyptian city of Alexandria once boasted the world's greatest library, home to scholars dedicated solely to the pursuit of knowledge. But on the eve of World War II, the obsessed characters in this mesmerizing novel find that their pursuits lead only to bedrooms in which each seeks to ...

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In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream

by Eric Dregni Dregni

Published: 2011-09-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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Eric Dregni’s great-grandfather Ellef fled Norway in 1893 when it was the poorest country in Europe. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson traveled back to find that—mostly due to oil and natural gas discoveries—it is now the richest. The circumstances of his return ...

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Julian: A Novel

by Gore Vidal

Published: 2003-08-12

Paperback: 528 pages

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The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest li...

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The Turn of the Screw (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

by Henry James

Published: 1999-07-17

Paperback: 288 pages

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This text is the first-and only-modern text to follow the New York Edition, the one which had James's final authority.Contexts includes twenty-six selections, from James's letters, notebooks, and other writings during the period 1863-1908, centering on the ghost story, the supernatural and...

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The Journalist and the Murderer

by Janet Malcolm

Published: 1990-10-31

Paperback: 176 pages

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In two previous books, Janet Malcolm explored the hidden sides of, respectively, institutional psychoanalysis and Freudian biography. In this book, she examines the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example -- the lawsuit of Je...

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You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness

by Heather Sellers

Published: 2011-10-04

Paperback: 368 pages

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A "poignant" (Boston Globe) family memoir that gives new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgiveness Heather Sellers is face-blind—that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that describes the inability to recognize faces. Growing up, unaware of the re...

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Days of Grace

by Arthur Ashe, Arnold Rampersad

Published: 1994-05-01

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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"Touching and courageous...All of it--the man, the life, the book--is rare and beautiful."COSMOPOLITANDAYS OF GRACE is an inspiring memoir of a remarkable man who was the true embodiment of courage, elegance, and the spirit to fight: Arthur Ashe--tennis champion, social activist, and perso...

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Rafa

by Rafael Nadal, John Carlin

Published: 2011-08-23

Hardcover: 272 pages

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What makes a champion? What does it take to be the best in the world at your sport? Rafael Nadal has the answers. In his memoir, written with award-winning journalist John Carlin, he reveals the secrets of his game and shares the inspiring personal story behind his success. It begins in...