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Just Desserts: A Novellelah

by Carl Reiner

Published: 2009-09-01

Hardcover: 136 pages

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Successful romance novelist Nat Noland has just had his cage severely rattled. After receiving an email directly from God, he just cant seem to get anywhere with his new novel. In JUST DESSERTS, the grand poobah of American comedy Carl Reiner will have you holding your sides like never bef...

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Just Ella

by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Published: 2007-03-27

Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages

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Being a princess isn't all that.... You've heard the fairytale: a glass slipper, Prince Charming, happily ever after... Welcome to reality: royal genealogy lessons, needlepoint, acting like "a proper lady," and -- worst of all -- a prince who is not the least bit interesting, and certa...

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Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly

by James E. McWilliams

Published: 2010-06-09

Paperback: 288 pages

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We suffer today from food anxiety, bombarded as we are with confusing messages about how to eat an ethical diet. Should we eat locally? Is organic really better for the environment? Can genetically modified foods be good for you? JUST FOOD does for fresh food what Fast Food Nation (Houghto...

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Just Jane: A Novel of Jane Austens Life

by Nancy Moser

Published: 2007-09-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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Unable to find her own Mr. Darcy, she created him. Jane Austen lives simply in the English countryside with her beloved family, entertaining them with her stories and seeking romance. She never ventures far from her own corner of the world and struggles to find her place in it. Growing up in a clergyman's...

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Just Kids

by Patti Smith

Published: 2010-01-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocativ...

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Just Like Heaven

by Barbara Bretton

Published: 2007-02-27

Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages

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It all started with a red lace thong. Normally Kate is a twin set and pearls kind of girl who wouldn't be caught dead in such a thing. But that's exactly what happens when sudden chest pains leave her lying in a parking lot with her skirt hiked up around her hips for all of Princeton to se...

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Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America

by Helen Thorpe

Published: 2009-09-22

Hardcover: 400 pages

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A powerful and moving account of four young women from Mexico who have lived most of their lives in the United States and attend the same high school. Two of them have legal documentation and two do not. Just Like Us is their story.A stunning work of in-depth journalism in the tradition of...

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Just Listen

by Sarah Dessen

Published: 2006-04-06

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Last year, Annabel was "the girl who has everything"—at least that's the part she played in the television commercial for Kopf 's Department Store.This year, she's the girl who has nothing: no best friend because mean-but-exciting Sophie dropped her, no peace at home since her older s...

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Just Medicare: What's In, What's Out, How We Decide

Published: 2006-04-29

Hardcover: 432 pages

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The most important issue facing Canadian health care today is access to services. But who decides what services will be publicly funded, and how? The essays in Just Medicare explore the diverse means by which law influences what should and should not be covered by publicly-funded Medicar...

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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts

by Simon Garfield

Published: 2011-09-01

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, What does your favorite font say about you? Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about every product we buy. But where do fonts come from, and why do...