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The Life List: A Novel

by Lori Nelson Spielman

Published: 2013-07-02

Paperback: 368 pages

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn this utterly charming debut—perfect for fans of Cecelia Ahern’s P.S., I Love You and Allison Winn Scotch’s Time of My Life—one woman sets out to complete her old list of childhood goals, and finds that her lifelong dreams lead her down a path she never ex...

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The Care and Handling of Roses With Thorns: A Novel

by Margaret Dilloway

Published: 2013-07-02

Paperback: 416 pages

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Winner of the ALA Reading List Award Difficult and obstinate. Thriving under a set of specific and limited conditions. That pretty much describes me. Maybe that’s why I like these roses so much. Roses are Galilee Garner’s passion. An amateur breeder, she painstakingly cross-...

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Freud's Mistress

by Karen Mack, Jennifer Kaufman

Published: 2013-07-09

Hardcover: 368 pages

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 His theories would change the world—and tear hers apart. A page-turning novel inspired by the true-life love affair between Sigmund Freud and his sister-in-law. It is fin-de-siècle Vienna and Minna Bernays, an overeducated lady’s companion with a sharp, wry wit, is abruptly fired,...

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Memories of a Marriage: A Novel

by Louis Begley

Published: 2013-07-09

Hardcover: 208 pages

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From the author of Wartime Lies and About Schmidt, an irresistibly entertaining novel about a man struggling to understand his friends' seemingly charmed marriage, which may have been doomed from the start. In the unforgiving class system of the 1950s, Lucy de Bourgh, daughter of one ...

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Final Sentence (A Cookbook Nook Mystery)

by Daryl Wood Gerber

Published: 2013-07-02

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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From Agatha Award winning authorThis is the first in a Cookbook Nook Mystery seriesIn need of a change, Jenna Hart leaves the high-pressure world of advertising to help her aunt Vera open a culinary bookshop and café. Back with her family in Crystal Cove, California, Jenna seems to have a...

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Fin & Lady: A Novel

by Cathleen Schine

Published: 2013-07-09

Hardcover: 288 pages

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From the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport, a wise, clever story of New York in the ’60sIt’s 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn’t seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his...

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Breaking the Silence: Overcoming the Problem of Principal Mistreatment of Teachers

by Joseph Blase, Jo R. Blase

Published: 2002-08-15

Paperback: 208 pages

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This groundbreaking book exposes the various manifestations and effects of abuse and offers practical solutions for its prevention and correction. 

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Friendship Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

by Lisa Verge Higgins

Published: 2013-03-19

Paperback: 352 pages

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TOP THREE REASONS TO VISIT EUROPE: 1. Explore foreign cultures2. Sample outstanding food3. Desperately flee impending personal crisisLenny left his wife, Monique, a bucket list of things they'd dreamed of doing together before cancer took his life. For four years, she ignored it, too busy ...

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Women and the Leadership Q: Revealing the Four Paths to Influence and Power

by Shoya Zichy

Published: 2000-08-01

Paperback: 338 pages

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Using Leadership Q—a 38-item, self-scoring, gender-neutral test, developed by Shoya Zichy and based upon the work of Carl Jung — women can identify which of the four profile groups best matches their leadership personalities and then goes on to explore which of the eight subsets, or sp...

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It's Not a Glass Ceiling, It's a Sticky Floor: Free Yourself From the Hidden Behaviors Sabotaging Your Career Success

by Rebecca Shambaugh

Published: 2007-09-26

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Turn the top 7 career breakers for women into career makers Statistically, more than one-third of Fortune 500 managers are women-and yet we represent barely five percent of the top earners among executives. Usually, we blame it on men-those “old boy” networks that don't typically welco...