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Boss of Bosses: The FBI and Paul Castellano

by Joseph F. O'Brien, Andris Kurins

Published: 1992-05-01

Mass Market Paperback: 382 pages

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* * * Fun,
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Bossypants

by Tina Fey

Published: 2013-01-29

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.She ha...

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The Bostonians (Modern Library Classics)

by Henry James

Published: 2003-12-09

Paperback: 496 pages

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This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her ...

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* * * Informative,
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

by Michael Pollan

Published: 2002-05-28

Paperback: 271 pages

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The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in AmericaEvery schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The ...

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Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It

by Maile Meloy

Published: 2010-07-06

Paperback: 256 pages

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One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2009-- now adapted into the feature film Certain Women, starring Kristen Stewart-- award-winning writer Maile Meloy's short stories explores complex lives in an austere landscape with the clear-sightedness that first endeared her to readers. Meloy...

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* * * * Romantic,
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The Botticelli Secret (Reading Group Gold)

by Marina Fiorato

Published: 2010-03-30

Paperback: 544 pages

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In this exhilarating cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Birth of Venus, an irrepressible young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli...When part-time model and full-time prostitute Luci...

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A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

by Valerie Zenatti

Published: 2008-04-01

Hardcover: 160 pages

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Bottle in the Gaza Sea should be THE novel for teens on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. When teen Tal Levine witnesses a bombing in Tel Aviv, she becomes despondent. Like so many people, she wants Israel and Palestine to live in peace. One day she puts her hopes into a letter, places the...

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Bottle Rocket Hearts

by Zoe Whittall

Published: 2007-04-14

Paperback: 1 pages

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Welcome to Montreal in the months before the 1995 referendum. Riot Grrl gets bought out and mass marketed as the Spice Girls, and gays are gaining some legitimacy, but the queers are rioting against assimilation, cocktail AIDS drugs are starting to work, and the city walls on either side of the Main...

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Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water

by Peter H. Gleick

Published: 2010-04-20

Hardcover: 232 pages

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Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation "genius," and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don't the rest of us? Bottled and Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource...

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The Bottom of the Sky

by William C Pack

Published: 2009-06-10

Hardcover: 476 pages

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The Bottom of the Sky is an aching rags to riches family saga that surges from rural squalor into the opulent power chambers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The story contrasts the 30 year struggles of an abused sister and brother who seek to reclaim themselves from their abhorrent past. One is abandoned...