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The Pursuit of Lucy Banning

by Olivia Newport

Published: 2012

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A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film

by Jean Shepherd

Published: 2003-10-28

Hardcover: 144 pages

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A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film.The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its ...

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist: From Book to Film

by Mira Nair

Published: 2013-03-18

Paperback: 200 pages

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Based on the bestselling novel by Mohsin Hamid Internationally acclaimed director Mira Nair offers the reader an exclusive behind-the-scenes look into the creation of her most ambitious film yet: The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Covering every aspect of the film-making process, this magnifice...

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The Birth House

by Ami Mckay

Published: 2006

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The Silver Star: A Novel

by Jeannette Walls

Published: 2013-06-11

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The Silver Star, Jeannette Walls has written a heartbreaking and redemptive novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world—a triumph of imagination and storytelling.It is 1970 in a small town in California. “Bean” Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, ...

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Sonata

by Blair McDowell

Published: 2012-12-10

Paperback: 256 pages

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A jewel heist… When renowned concert artist Sayuri McAllister returns to the west coast of Canada after an absence of five years, she discovers her family home has been a broken into and jewelry worth two million dollars is missing. Michael Donovan, Sayuri’s old high school flame, now a detective...

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Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six

by Jessica Buchanan, Erik Landemalm, Anthony Flacco

Published: 2013-05-14

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A New York Times bestseller!In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan stepped off a plane in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a native Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordin...

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No Place Like Home - A Camilla Randall Mystery (The Camilla Randall Mysteries)

by Anne R. Allen

Published: 2012-12-03

Kindle Edition: 267 pages

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Comedy with a conscience: The uber-rich editor of Home decorating magazine loses everything, including her Ponzi-schemer husband, when their luxury wine-country home mysteriously goes up in flames. But that's just the beginning of Doria's problems. .Homeless, destitute, presumed dead and ...

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Red Moon: A Novel

by Benjamin Percy

Published: 2013-05-07

Hardcover: 544 pages

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Award -winning author Benjamin Percy presents an explosive and deeply layered literary thriller set in the American West.They live among us. They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers.They change.When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Cl...

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Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

by Andrew Solomon

Published: 2012-11-13

Hardcover: 976 pages

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From the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work, a decade in the writing, about family. In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but al...