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No Hurry to Get Home: The Memoir of the New Yorker Writer Whose Unconventional Life and Adventures Spanned the 20th Century

by Emily Hahn, Ken Cuthbertson, Sheila McGrath

Published: 2000-11

Paperback: 312 pages

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Emily Hahn was a woman ahead of her time, graced with a sense of adventure and a gift for living. Born in St. Louis in 1905, she crashed the all-male precincts of the University of Wisconsin geology department as an undergraduate, traveled alone to the Belgian Congo at age 25, was the conc...

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Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love

by Thomas Maier

Published: 2013-07-30

Paperback: 440 pages

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Now a New Showtime Original SeriesShowtime's dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Before Sex and the City and ViagraTM, America relied on Masters and Johnson to tea...

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The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son

by Pat Conroy

Published: 2013-10-29

Hardcover: 352 pages

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In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, find some common ground at long last.Pat Conroy’s father, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering figure in his son’s life. The Marine Corps ...

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The Last Runaway: A Novel

by Tracy Chevalier

Published: 2013-10-29

Paperback: 320 pages

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A powerful journey brimming with color and drama The Last Runaway is New York Times bestselling author Tracy Chevaliers vivid exploration of an iconic chapter in American history Ohio 1850 For a modest English Quaker stranded far from home life is a trial Untethered from the moment she leaves England...

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Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: 13 Stories

by Alice Munro

Published: 2004-10-12

Paperback: 256 pages

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013In the thirteen stories in her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique that led no less a critic than John Updike to compare her to Chekhov. The s...

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Tamarack County: A Novel

by William Kent Krueger

Published: 2013-08-20

Hardcover: 320 pages

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“Like many men and women who’ve worn a badge for a good part of their lives, Corcoran Liam O’Connor was cursed. Twice cursed, in reality. Cursed with memory and cursed with imagination.” Tamarack County, Minnesota, the gateway to the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness....

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The Divine Secrets of The Whoopie Pie Sisters - Book One - An Amish Christian Trilogy

by Sarah Price, Whoopie Pie Pam Jarrell

Published: 2013-08-15

Kindle Edition: 104 pages

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A new series by best-selling author of Amish Christian Romances, Sarah Price, and Helping Hands Press' own Whoopie Pie Pam Jarrell. Follow the story of four Amish sisters who run Whoopie Pie Place, the best known bakery outside of Berlin, located in Holmes County, Ohio. Each sister has ...

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Fanny and Sue: A Novel

by Karen Stolz

Published: 2004-03-17

Paperback: 256 pages

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Now available in paperback--from the author of World of Pies comes a charming portrait of the American heartland as told through the intertwined lives of twin sisters. When Karen Stolz's World of Pies was published two years ago, readers and critics alike savored every delicious word. Now ...

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Bone Deep

by Darian North

Published: 2000-01-01

Paperback: 504 pages

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A drama of personal obsessions from the author of 'Criminal Seduction'.

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The Age of Dreaming

by Nina Revoyr

Published: 2008-04-01

Paperback: 327 pages

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?The Age of Dreaming is a masterpiece of the sort that doesn’t just seduce the reader?it leaves you transformed. Nina Revoyr deserves to be counted among the top ranks of novelists at work today.”?Jerry Stahl, author of I, Fatty?This is a riveting, wise, and gorgeous novel.”?Mary Yuk...