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Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington

by Terry Teachout

Published: 2013-10-17

Hardcover: 496 pages

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A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong   Edward Kennedy ?Duke” Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century?and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to ...

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How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit

by Witold Rybczynski

Published: 2013-10-08

Hardcover: 368 pages

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An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday livesWe spend most of our days and nights in buildings, living and working and sometimes playing. Buildings often overawe us with their beauty. Architecture is both setting for our everyda...

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At Last (A Lucky Harbor Novel)

by Jill Shalvis

Published: 2012-06-26

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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HER LOVE HAS COME ALONG . . . Amy Michaels loves her new life in Lucky Harbor. A waitress in the local diner, she's looking forward to her first weekend hike through the mountains. But when a wrong turn takes her off the trail, she finds herself up close and personal with forest ranger Mat...

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Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord

by Sarah MacLean

Published: 2010-10-26

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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Sarah MacLean, one of the freshest and most exciting new voices in historical romance fiction, shares the Ten Ways to be Adored When Landing a Lord—her second witty and deliciously sensual Regency romance novel and a treat for fans of Julia Quinn, Julie Garwood, and Lisa Kleypas. In Ten ...

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Kushiel's Chosen (Kushiel's Legacy)

by Jacqueline Carey

Published: 2003-03-14

Mass Market Paperback: 704 pages

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Mighty Kushiel, of rod and wealLate of the brazen portalsWith blood-tipp'd dart a wound unhealedPricks the eyen of chosen mortalsThe land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. The inhabiting race rose from the seed of angels and men, and they live by one simple rule: ...

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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

by Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy

Published: 2013-06-25

Paperback: 288 pages

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An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog The most fatal virus known to science, rabies—a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans—kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain. In ...

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Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment

by Katrina Kenison

Published: 2013-01-08

Hardcover: 288 pages

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"No longer indispensable, no longer assured of our old carefully crafted identities, no longer beautiful in the way we were at twenty or thirty or forty, we are hungry and searching nonetheless."From the author of The Gift of an Ordinary Day, this intimate memoir of loss, self-discovery, a...

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Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives

by Jim B. Tucker

Published: 2013-12-03

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Dr. Tucker, in a follow-up to his book Life Before Life, explores American cases of young children who report memories of previous livesA first-person account of Jim Tucker's experiences with a number of extraordinary children with memories of past lives, Return to Life focuses mostly on...

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Hadley

by Gioia Diliberto

Published: 1992-04-01

Hardcover: 342 pages

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A biography of Hemingway's first and most beloved wife describes Hadley and Ernest's first meeting, their courtship, family life in Paris, the birth of their son Jack, and the me a7nage a a6 trois that destroyed their marriage. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

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City of the Sun

by Juliana Maio

Published: 2014-03-11

Paperback: 384 pages

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Espionage, love, and power play upon the shifting sands of wartime Cairo CAIRO, EGYPT 1941. As the Second World War rages, the city known as ''Paris on the Nile'' plays host to an international set who seem more interested in polo matches and swanky nightclubs than the Germans' unrelentin...