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The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (14)

by Alexander McCall Smith

Published: 2013-11-05

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Modern ideas get tangled up with traditional ones in the latest intriguing installment in the beloved, best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.  Precious Ramotswe has taken on two puzzling cases. First she is approached by the lawyer Mma Sheba, who is the executor of a deceas...

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Woman of Courage

by Wanda E. Brunstetter

Published: 2014-04-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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Take a three-thousand mile journey with Amanda Pearson as she leaves the disgrace of a broken engagement and enters the work of a Quaker mission in the western wilds. The trip is fraught with danger, and Amanda is near death before reaching her destination. Among those she meets are an Ind...

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The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club

by Wanda E. Brunstetter

Published: 2012-04-03

Paperback: 312 pages

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Now a New York Times Bestseller!  Join the club of unlikely quilters who show up for Amish widow Emma Yoder’s quilting classes. A troubled young woman, a struggling couple, a widower, a rough and tough biker, and a preacher’s wife make up the mismatched lot. But as their problems begi...

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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

by Jennifer Senior

Published: 2014-01-28

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this quest...

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The Deepest Secret: A Novel

by Carla Buckley

Published: 2014-02-04

Hardcover: 448 pages

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For fans of Jodi Picoult, Kim Edwards, and William Landay, The Deepest Secret is part intimate family drama, part gripping page-turner, exploring the profound power of the truths we’re scared to face . . . about our marriages, our children, and ourselves.   Eve Lattimore’s family is l...

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Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

by Maggie Callanan, Patricia Kelley

Published: 2012-02-14

Paperback: 224 pages

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In this moving and compassionate classic—now updated with new material from the authors—hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years’ experience tending the terminally ill. Thro...

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Wounded Warrior, Wounded Home: Hope and Healing for Families Living with PTSD and TBI

by Marshele Carter Waddell, Kelly K. Orr

Published: 2013-03-01

Paperback: 204 pages

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For every wounded warrior, there is a wounded home--an immediate and extended family and community impacted by their loved one's war experiences. Every day service members are returning from combat deployments to their families. And every day war comes home with them.When a combat veteran ...

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Aunt Erma's Cope Book

by Erma Bombeck

Published: 1985-07-12

Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages

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"Her audience is everyone who has ever married, had children, gotten to middle age, owned a dog or a duck."DALLAS TIMES HERALDIn this book Erma comes out--out of the kitchen--with these gems:No longer will she be the only woman on the block to wear a slip under a see-through sweater, or fe...

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Bob Hope

by Bob Hope, Linda Hope

Published: 2003-05-07

Hardcover: 224 pages

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To comedians, 'material'--their jokes--has always been precious, worthy of protecting and preserving. On stage, a good vaudeville routine could last years as it was performed on tour across the country. On radio, a year's vaudeville material might be fodder for one week's broadcast. Bob Ho...

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To Have and Have Not

by Ernest Hemingway

Published: 1996-03-20

Paperback: 272 pages

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Hemingway's Classic Novel About Smuggling, Intrigue, and Love To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him in...