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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

by Ben Goldacre

Published: 2013-02-05

Hardcover: 448 pages

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We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart ...

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Under The Same Umbrella

by Meredith Kennon

Published: 2008-11-12

Paperback: 402 pages

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After her mother's death and at her request, thirty-six year old Londoner, Carrie Townsend, travels to America to meet a stranger, Janet Larson, her mother's long-distance friend of many years. Travel-weary and broken-hearted, Carrie knows only that she is to learn things from Janet that her mother,...

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Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America

by Michelle Kennedy

Published: 2006-01-31

Paperback: 224 pages

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Michelle Kennedy had a typical middle class American childhood in Vermont. She attended college, interned in the U.S. Senate, married her high school sweetheart and settled in the suburbs of D.C. But the comfortable life she was building quickly fell apart. At age twenty-four Michelle was ...

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City of Lost Dreams: A Novel

by Magnus Flyte

Published: 2013-11-26

Paperback: 368 pages

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The exhilarating, genre-bending sequel to the sensational New York Times bestseller City of Dark Magic ?If you’re looking for a time-travel mystery with laughs, danger, and a romantic interest clad in lederhosen (and who isn’t?), look no further.” ?People (4 Stars) In thi...

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As Young As We Feel: A Novel (The Four Lindas)

by Melody Carlson

Published: 2010-03-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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Once upon a time in the little town on the Oregon coast, there were four Lindas—all in the same first-grade classroom. So they decided to go by their middle names. And form a club. And be friends forever. But that was 47 years and four lives ago. Now a class reunion has brought them all�...

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The Other Typist: A Novel

by Suzanne Rindell

Published: 2014-04-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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A haunting debut novel set against the background of New York City in the 1920s…Confessions are Rose Baker’s job. A typist for the New York City Police Department, she sits in judgment like a high priestess. Criminals come before her to admit their transgressions, and, with a few stro...

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Mister Orange

by Truus Matti

Published: 2013-01-29

Hardcover: 156 pages

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The year: 1943. The place: Manhattan. Linus Muller works at the family grocery store in the east 70s. When his oldest brother, Albie, leaves to fight in World War II, Linus takes over the grocery deliveries. One of his customers is an artist from somewhere in Europe who arranges to have a ...

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The Bathing Costume: Or the Worst Vacation of My Life

by Charlotte Moundlic

Published: 2013-05-28

Hardcover: 40 pages

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The book's protagonist is Michel, an eight-year-old Parisian boy. His brother Martin, who's twelve, detests him, and he detests Martin right back. This summer, Michel will go away alone, which really means without his mom, to stay with his grandparents while his parents move apartments. To...

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That Old Black Magic (Piper Donovan/Wedding Cake Mysteries)

by Mary Jane Clark

Published: 2014-01-21

Hardcover: 368 pages

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That Old Black Magic is New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark’s savory and suspenseful confection filled with murder, mystery, history and voodoo, in which Piper Donovan must unmask a devious killer striking in New Orleans’s legendary French Quarter.Aspiring actress and wed...

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Election

by Tom Perrotta

Published: 1998-10-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She's one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English teacher. But another teacher, staunch idealist Jim McAllister (aka "Mr. M."), thinks the students deserve better...