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The Funeral Dress: A Novel

by Susan Gregg Gilmore

Published: 2013-09-03

Paperback: 368 pages

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A deeply touching Southern story filled with struggle and hope.Emmalee Bullard and her new baby are on their own. Or so she thinks, until Leona Lane, the older seamstress who sat by her side at the local shirt factory where both women worked as collar makers, insists Emmalee come and live ...

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Reality-Based Leadership: Ditch the Drama, Restore Sanity to the Workplace, and Turn Excuses into Results

by Cy Wakeman

Published: 2010-09-21

Hardcover: 192 pages

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Leadership strategies grounded in reality and focused on resultsRecent polls show that 71% of workers think about quitting their jobs every day. That number would be shocking-if people actually were quitting. Worse, they go to work, punching time clocks and collecting pay checks, while com...

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Glitter and Glue: A Memoir

by Kelly Corrigan

Published: 2014-02-04

Hardcover: 240 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the author of The Middle Place comes a new memoir that examines the bond—sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divine—between mothers and daughters.  When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dyn...

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Miss New York Has Everything

by Lori Jakiela

Published: 2006-01-23

Paperback: 304 pages

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Her aunt was a nun who popped pills and did time in Narcotics Anonymous. Her father grew up during the Depression, believed he'd be the next Frank Sinatra, and ended up working in the mills. His daughter, Lori Jakiela, spent her suburban Pittsburgh childhood watching Marlo Thomas in That Girl and dreaming...

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Death at the Chateau Bremont: A Verlaque and Bonnet Mystery (Verlaque and Bonnet Mysteries)

by M. L. Longworth

Published: 2011-06-28

Paperback: 320 pages

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Introducing a seductive new mystery series set in Provence-featuring chief magistrate Antoine Verlaque. Set in charming and historic Aix-en-Provence, France, Death at the Château Bremont introduces readers to Antoine Verlaque, the handsome and seductive chief magistrate of Aix, and his o...

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Anatomy of a Kidnapping: A Doctor's Story

by Steven L. Berk

Published: 2011-09-01

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Four hours. That was the amount of time between looking down the barrel of a gun and finding myself free along a silent highway lined by cotton fields. In the time period that seemed eternal, my unique experiences as a doctor created an indescribable bond between myself and my captor. I lo...

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Coming Clean: A Memoir

by Kimberly Rae Miller

Published: 2013-07-23

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Kim Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a tidy apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. You would never guess that Kim grew up behind the closed doors of her family’s idyllic Long Island house, navigating between teetering stacks o...

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The Heist: A Novel

by Janet Evanovich, Goldberg Lee

Published: 2013-06-18

Hardcover: 320 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Janet Evanovich, #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum novels, and Lee Goldberg, bestselling author and television writer for Monk, comes the first adventure in an electrifying new series featuring an FBI agent who always gets her man, and a fearless co...

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The Sound and the Furry: A Chet and Bernie Mystery (Chet and Bernie Mysteries)

by Spencer Quinn

Published: 2013-09-10

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In the sixth installment of the brilliant New York Times bestselling mystery series, canine narrator Chet and his human partner P.I. Bernie Little are handed a hard case in the Big Easy. When Chet and Bernie happen upon a prison work crew that includes Frenchie Boutette, an old criminal p...

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Rumble Yell: Discovering America's Biggest Bike Ride

by Brian David Bruns

Published: 2013-05-13

Paperback: 274 pages

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The world's biggest bike ride. 1 week. 115 degrees. 500 miles. 15,000 riders. One very important lesson. RUMBLE YELL is the hilarious new book about RAGBRAI®. Finally enthusiasts, armchair cyclists, and adventure widows can live the full experience. No sweat. No lube. Just laughs. The rollicking,...