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Honeymoon in Purdah: An Iranian Journey

by Alison Wearing

Published: 2001-12-07

Paperback: 336 pages

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With a love of travel, Alison Wearing invites us to journey with her to Iran--a country that few Westerners have a chance to see. Traveling with a male friend, in the guise of a couple on their honeymoon, Wearing set out on her own at every available opportunity. She went looking for what ...

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Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

by Leah Remini, Rebecca Paley

Published: 2015-11-03

Hardcover: 256 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memoir, including an eye-opening insider account of her tumultuous and heart-wrenching thirty-year-plus association with the Church of Scientology.   Leah Remini...

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The River

by Patrick Jones

Published: 2015-09-09

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In rural Missouri, Crawford County has had more than its share of wildlife problems. Not even a year earlier the woods were home to a vicious killer brought back from extinction. In "The Wolf's Moon," Mark Lansdowne and his pal, Warren Skruggs, sent them back…but at a cost. Now someth...

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Refund: Stories

by Karen E. Bender

Published: 2015-11-10

Paperback: 256 pages

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We think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who has it. Who doesn’t. How you get it. How you don’t.Bender uses this very powerful force to pull together a unified collection of stories that deeply explore the ways in which money and the subsequent estimation of value affe...

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The Secret Life of Winnie Cox: Slavery, forbidden love and tragedy - spellbinding historical fiction

by Sharon Maas

Published: 2015-09-30

Paperback: 418 pages

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1910, South America. A time of racial tension and poverty. A time where forbidden love must remain a secret. Winnie Cox lives a privileged life of dances and dresses on her father’s sugar cane plantation. Life is sweet in the kingdom of sugar and Winnie along with her sister Johanna, h...

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Spilled Milk: Based on a true story

by K.L Randis

Published: 2013-06-07

Paperback: 244 pages

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"Randis later would testify at a criminal trial against her father, who was sentenced to prison for his crimes. He was sentenced to up to 16 years in 2004. Her painful -- and ultimately triumphant -- story is recounted in Randis' first novel, "Spilled Milk." -Stacy Brown, Pocono Record New...

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Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories

by Ron Rash

Published: 2015-08-11

Paperback: 448 pages

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From the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling award-winning author of Serena and The Cove, thirty of his finest short stories, collected in one volume.No one captures the complexities of Appalachia—a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beauty—as evocatively and indelibly as author a...

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Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses: A Memoir

by Paula McLain

Published: 2003-03

Hardcover: 240 pages

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In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's "Boys of My Youth" and Mary Karr's "The Liar's Club," Paula McLain has written a powerful and haunting memoir about the years she and her two sisters spent as foster children. In the early '70s, after being abandoned by both parents, the girls were made w...

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Wrong

by Jana Aston

Published: 2015-10-07

Paperback: 284 pages

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I have a history of picking the wrong guy. Gay? Player? Momma’s boy? Check, check and check. Now I can’t stop fantasizing about one of the customers at the coffee shop I work at between classes. It’s just a harmless crush, right? It’s not like I ever see this guy outside of the coffee shop....

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The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings

by Peggy Noonan

Published: 2015-11-03

Hardcover: 496 pages

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Peggy Noonan is one of the most brilliant and influential political thinkers and writers of our time. The author of five bestselling books (What I Saw at the Revolution is now a classic), her column in The Wall Street Journalis a must-read for millions of Americans. Witty, incisive and alw...