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Take Another Look

by Rosalind Noonan

Published: 2015-04-28

Paperback: 352 pages

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When Jane Ryan discovers she's pregnant with twin girls, she faces a heart wrenching decision. On her own and unable to afford to care for both babies, she sees no choice but to keep one and give up the other for adoption. But fourteen years later, Jane's decision comes full circle. "F...

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Under a Summer Sky

by Nan Rossiter

Published: 2014-04-29

Paperback: 352 pages

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nan Rossiter transports readers to Cape Cod with a warm, compelling story of family, new beginnings, and finding the courage to love honestly and well...The old Cape Cod house that Laney Coleman shares with her minister husband Noah and the...

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Ripper: A Novel (P.S.)

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2015-01-27

Paperback: 512 pages

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Isabel Allende—the New York Times bestselling author whose books, including Maya’s Notebook, Island Beneath the Sea, and Zorro, have sold more than 57 million copies around the world—demonstrates her remarkable literary versatility with Ripper, an atmospheric, fast-paced mystery invo...

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The Inventor and the Tycoon: The Murderer Eadweard Muybridge, the Entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the Birth of Moving Pictures

by Edward Ball

Published: 2013-11-05

Paperback: 464 pages

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A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book of the YearNearly 140 years ago, in frontier California, photographer Eadweard Muybridge captured time with his camera and played it back on a flickering screen, inventing the breakthrough technology of moving pictures. Yet the visionary inventor Muybridge...

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A High-End Finish: A Fixer-Upper Mystery

by Kate Carlisle

Published: 2014-11-04

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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FIRST IN A NEW SERIES! In the seaside town of Lighthouse Cove in northern California, everyone knows the best man for the job is actually a woman—contractor Shannon Hammer. But while Shannon can do wonders with a power drill and a little elbow grease, she’s about to discover that some ...

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This Old Homicide: A Fixer-Upper Mystery

by Kate Carlisle

Published: 2015-01-27

Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Bibliophile Mysteries and A High-End Finish comes the second Fixer-Upper Mystery...Contractor and part-time sleuth Shannon Hammer specializes in improving the quirks and flaws of the Victorian homes in Lighthouse Cove, California. The qui...

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The Kindness of Enemies: A Novel

by Leila Aboulela

Published: 2016-01-05

Hardcover: 320 pages

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?A versatile prose stylist... [Aboulela’s] lyrical style and incisive portrayal of Muslims living in the West received praise from the Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee... [she is] a voice for multiculturalism.”?New York TimesIt’s 2010 and Natasha, a half Russian, half Sudanese profes...

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The Dead Wrestler Elegies

by W. Todd Kaneko

Published: 2014-11-18

Paperback: 120 pages

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These elegies and illustrations by Asian American poet W. Todd Kaneko cover themes of loss, love, regret, redemption, and remorse. Kaneko's poems and illustrations blend Charles Bukowski's raw-boned verse and Randy "Macho Man" Savage's devastating elbow drop to mine the history of professi...

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* * * * Informative,
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The Quiet Season: Remembering Country Winters

by Jerry Apps

Published: 2013-08-15

Hardcover: 160 pages

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The Quiet SeasonRemembering Country WintersJerry Apps “As I think back to the days of my childhood, the frost-covered windows in my bedroom,the frigid walks to the country school, the excitement of a blizzard, and a hundred other memories, I realize that these experiences left an indeli...

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American Housewife: Stories

by Helen Ellis

Published: 2016-01-12

Hardcover: 208 pages

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A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon line.Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipsti...