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The Last Pirate: A Father, His Son, and the Golden Age of Marijuana

by Tony Dokoupil

Published: 2014-04-01

Hardcover: 272 pages

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In the tradition of Blow and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, The Last Pirate is a vivid, haunting and often hilarious memoir recounting the life of Big Tony, a family man who joined the biggest pot ring of the Reagan era and exploded his life in the process. Three decades later, his s...

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The Book of Summers

by Emylia Hall

Published: 2012-05-29

Paperback: 368 pages

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For nine-year-old Beth Lowe, it should have been a magical summer-sun-kissed days lounging in rickety deck chairs, nights gathered around the fire. But what begins as an innocent vacation to Hungary ends with the devastating separation of her parents. Beth and her father return home alone,...

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Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic, No 1)

by Sophie Kinsella

Published: 2001-02-06

Paperback: 320 pages

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Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London’s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season’s must-haves. The only trouble is, she can’t actually afford it—not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Saving magazine not on...

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Cheaper by the Dozen (Perennial Classics)

by Frank B. Gilbreth, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Published: 2002-05-28

Paperback: 224 pages

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What do you get when you put twelve lively kids together with a father -- a famous efficiency expert -- who believes families can run like factories, and a mother who is his partner in everything except discipline? You get a hilarious tale of growing up that has made generations of kids an...

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Home to Harmony

by Philip Gulley

Published: 2000-09-29

Hardcover: 219 pages

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In the fictional small town of Harmony, Indiana, Sam Gardner becomes the pastor of his hometown church, Harmony Friends Meeting. In this delightful, first-person novel, Sam describes in a warm, down-home style the moving and humorous adventures he encounters his first year home to Harmony. Bestselling...

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Sunnyside

by Robertson Dean (Narrator) Glen David Gold (Author)

Published: 2000

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Pedro y el Capitan (Spanish Edition)

by Mario Benedetti

Published: 2011-04-11

Paperback: 96 pages

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En " Pedro y el Capitan " (1979), tenso dialogo entre victima y verdugo que se desarrolla en una sala de interrogatorios, el escritor uruguayo Mario Benedetti aborda «una indagacion dramatica en la psicologia de un torturador» a la que una objetividad rigurosa aleja del maniqueismo. «Esta pieza...

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Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands: A Novel

by Chris Bohjalian

Published: 2014-07-08

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A heartbreaking, wildly inventive, and moving novel narrated by a teenage runaway, from the bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls.Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with froze...

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Hit Man (John Keller Mysteries)

by Lawrence Block

Published: 2002-02-05

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Keller is your basic urban Lonely Guy.He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment.Works the crossword puzzle. Watches a little TV. Until the phone rings and he packs a suitcase, gets on a plane, flies halfway across the country...and kills somebody. It's a living. But is it a life? Keller's...

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New Orleans Mourning.

by Julie. Smith

Published: 1993

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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When the smiling King of Carnival is killed at Mardi Gras, policewoman Skip Langdon is on the case. She knows the upper-crust family of the victim and that it hides more than its share of glittering skeletons. But nothing could prepare her for the tangled web of clues and ancient secrets that would mean...