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Orchestrated Fate

by L. A. De Michiel

Published: 2013-05-06

Paperback: 318 pages

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Arriving in Sydney, Kelvin Kempton finds accommodations at a small terrace house owned by the elderly Miss Clumpmire. Inspired by her bizarre sense of humour, he becomes what he really wants to be: a stand up comedian. He falls in love with Cynthia, and life is perfect. But their six-year relationship...

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The Forging: Book One of the Four Companions Series

by Tim Rose

Published: 2013-09-09

Paperback: 266 pages

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The magician, Kod Hawklight, fears his use of enchantments will be greatly handicapped after the loss of one of his fingers. However, after he is summoned to heal three travelers, Kod discovers that one of them, the dwarf Olan Stronghelm, is carrying a map that reveals the location of an ancient stronghold....

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Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him

by David Henry, Joe Henry

Published: 2013-11-05

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Richard Pryor was arguably the single most influential performer of the second half of the twentieth century, and certainly he was the most successful black actor/comedian ever. Controversial and somewhat enigmatic in his lifetime, Pryor’s performances opened up a new world of possibilit...

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Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football

by Rich Cohen

Published: 2013-10-29

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime football team and their lone championship seasonFor Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the 1985 Chicago Bears were more than a football team: they were the greatest football team ever—a gang of colorful nuts, dancing and pounding their way...

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Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel

by Martin Cruz Smith

Published: 2013-11-12

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Arkady Renko, one of the iconic inves­tigators of contemporary fiction, has survived the cultural journey from the Soviet Union to the New Russia, only to find the nation as obsessed with secrecy and brutality as was the old Communist dictatorship. In Tatiana, the melancholy hero— cynic...

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Longfellow: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Published: 1988-01-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works—Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha—as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems....

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Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pile

by Nate Jackson

Published: 2013-09-17

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Nate Jackson’s Slow Getting Up is an unvarnished and uncensored memoir of everyday life in the most popular sports league in America—and the most damaging to its players—the National Football League.After playing college ball at a tiny Division III school, Jackson, a receiver, signed...

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Girl in a Cage (Stuart Quartet)

by Jane Yolen, Robert Harris

Published: 2004-08-19

Paperback: 240 pages

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When her father, Robert the Bruce, becomes King of Scotland, Marjorie Bruce becomes a princess. But Edward Longshanks, the ruthless King of England, has set his sights on Robert and his family. Marjorie is captured and imprisoned in a wooden cage in the center of a town square, exposed to ...

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Briar Rose

by Jana Oliver

Published: 2013-09-12

Paperback: 480 pages

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Briar Rose believes in fairy tales ...And now, because of a family curse, she's living one. Doomed to fall asleep for one hundred years on her sixteenth birthday, Briar has woken up in the darkest, most twisted fairy tale she could ever have dreamed of -- miles away from the safe, boring small-town life...

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Between Heaven and Texas (Cobble Court Quilts)

by Marie Bostwick

Published: 2013-04-30

Paperback: 368 pages

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In this luminous prequel to her beloved Cobbled Court Quilts series, New York Times bestselling author Marie Bostwick takes readers into the heart of a small Texas town and the soul of a woman who discovers her destiny there. . .Welcome to Too Much--where the women are strong-willed and ...