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The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard

by Stephen Jimenez

Published: 2013-09-24

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Late on the night of October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a twenty-one-year-old gay college student, left a bar in Laramie, Wyoming with two alleged “strangers,” Aaron McKin­ney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, u...

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Trains and Lovers: A Novel

by Alexander McCall Smith

Published: 2013-06-11

Hardcover: 256 pages

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The rocking motion of the train as it speeds along, the sound of its wheels on the rails . . . There’s something special about this form of travel that makes for easy conversation, which is just what happens to the four strangers who meet in Trains and Lovers.  As they journey by rail f...

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Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker: A Novel

by Jennifer Chiaverini

Published: 2013-09-24

Paperback: 384 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini’s compelling historical novel unveils the private lives of Abraham and Mary Lincoln through the perspective of the First Lady’s most trusted confidante and friend, her dressmaker, Elizabeth Keckley. In a life that spanned nearly a ...

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Dave Lieber's Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong

by Dave Lieber

Published: 2008-10

Hardcover: 144 pages

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Years ago, crooks had nicknames like Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly and Pretty Boy Floyd. Today's crooks don't need nicknames. Their names are often the brands of America's top corporations. They use poor customer service as an excuse to take your money, sometimes improperly, and ke...

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Christmas with the First Ladies: The White House Decorating Tradition from Jacqueline Kennedy to Michelle Obama

by Coleen Christian Burke

Published: 2011-10-25

Hardcover: 160 pages

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No home in America celebrates Christmas quite like the White House. Whether adorned with hand-made ornaments or thoughtful crafts, the White House has warmly welcomed celebrities, dignitaries, and hardworking Americans and epitomized the Christmas spirit. And behind each holiday celebratio...

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Season of the Witch

by Arni Thorarinsson

Published: 2012-08-28

Kindle Edition: 224 pages

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When the editors at Reykjavik-based The Afternoon News decide to expand the newspaper into northern Iceland—with their crime writer Einar as its sole reporter on location—the journalist feels as though he has stepped back in time. Compared to the hustle and bustle of the capital, where...

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

Published: 2012-12-05

Paperback: 42 pages

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In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity. He was...

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Three Dollars

by Elliot Perlman

Published: 2007-03-06

Paperback: 384 pages

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The long-unavailable debut novel by the bestselling author of Seven Types of Ambiguity. From celebrated author Elliot Perlman, Three Dollars is the deft, passionate portrait of a man coming to terms with his place in an increasingly hostile and corporate world, while struggling to retain h...

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Lady Chatterley's Lover (The Unexpurgated Edition)

by D. H. Lawrence

Published: 2010-07-13

Kindle Edition: 272 pages

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Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the e...

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Delta of Venus

by Anais Nin

Published: 1978

Mass Market Paperback: 269 pages

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this is a very seductive, erotic romance. author is a woman ahead of her time