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Paperweights 101

by Doris B. Robinson

Published: 2014-03-04

Paperback: 120 pages

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"The purpose of this book is to introduce paperweight collecting to those people who may be interested in these fascinating and mysterious small glass objects, but are not quite ready to start a collection without some basic knowledge. Back in 1969, when my husband and I first became interested in...

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All I Love and Know: A Novel

by Judith Frank

Published: 2014-07-15

Hardcover: 432 pages

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Told with the storytelling power and emotional fidelity of Wally Lamb, this is a searing drama of a modern American family on the brink of dissolution, one that explores adoption, gay marriage, and love lost and found.For years, Matthew Greene and Daniel Rosen have enjoyed a quiet domestic...

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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League

by Jeff Hobbs

Published: 2014-09-23

Hardcover: 416 pages

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A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young African-American man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets—and of one’s own nature—when he returns home.When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale Univers...

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The Cinderella Murder: An Under Suspicion Novel

by Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke

Published: 2014-11-18

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In a first-time collaboration, “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark partners with bestselling author Alafair Burke to deliver a brand new suspense series about a television program featuring cold case murders.Television producer Laurie Moran is delighted when the pilot for her realit...

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Three Story House: A Novel

by Courtney Miller Santo

Published: 2014-08-19

Paperback: 416 pages

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Renovating an historic Memphis house together, three cousins discover that their spectacular failures in love, career, and family provide the foundation for their future happiness in this warm and poignant novel from the author of The Roots of the Olive Tree that is reminiscent of The Post...

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Gossamer Ghost (A Scrapbooking Mystery)

by Laura Childs

Published: 2014-10-07

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Carmela Bertrand knows that Halloween in New Orleans means a week of rabble-rousing, costumed craziness?and she can’t wait to get the party started. But when a local antiques dealer turns up dead, Carmela suddenly finds herself in a real-life danse macabre? An evening’s work deciding o...

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At Bluebonnet Lake: A Novel (Texas Crossroads)

by Amanda Cabot

Published: 2014-10-21

Paperback: 384 pages

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Marketing maven Kate Sherwood's world is fast-paced, challenging, and always changing. The last thing she wants to do is slow down to a crawl at Rainbow's End, a dilapidated resort in the Texas Hill Country. But she cannot deny her ailing grandmother's request to visit the place where she ...

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The Sweetness: A Novel

by Sande Boritz Berger

Published: 2014-09-23

Paperback: 301 pages

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Vilna 1941. An inquisitive young girl asks her grandmother why she is carrying nothing but a jug of lemons and water when they are forced by the Germans to evacuate their Vilna ghetto. "Something to remind me of the sweetness," the wise woman tells her, setting the theme for what they mu...

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I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated

by Julie Klausner

Published: 2010-02-02

Paperback: 272 pages

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Read Julie Klausner's posts on the Penguin Blog In the tradition of Cynthia Heimel and Chelsea Handler, and with the boisterous iconoclasm of Amy Sedaris, Julie Klausner's candid and funny debut I Don't Care About Your Band sheds light on the humiliations we endure to find love--a...

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Queen of Kings

by Maria Dahvana Headley

Published: 2011-05-12

Hardcover: 416 pages

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The immortal story of Cleopatra. Passion and seduction, witches and warriors, and history and mythology combine to bring the timeless story of Cleopatra to life like never before in this stunningly original and spellbinding debut. The year is 30 BC. A messenger delivers word to Queen Cleo...