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Zazen

by Vanessa Veselka

Published: 2011-05-22

Paperback: 264 pages

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Somewhere in Della’s consumptive, industrial wasteland of a city, a bomb goes off. It is not the first, and will not be the last.Reactions to the attacks are polarized. Police activity intensifies. Della’s revolutionary parents welcome the upheaval but are trapped within their own insu...

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Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden

by Karen Maezen Miller

Published: 2014-04-29

Paperback: 192 pages

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Come See the Garden That Is Your LifeWhen Zen teacher Karen Maezen Miller and her family land in a house with a hundred-year-old Japanese garden, she uses the paradise in her backyard to glean the living wisdom of our natural world. Through her eyes, rocks convey faith, ponds preach stilln...

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Angels at the Table: A Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy Christmas Story

by Debbie Macomber

Published: 2013-10-22

Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this joyous and whimsical holiday novel, Debbie Macomber rings in the season with the return of Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy, delivering laughs, love, and a charming dose of angelic intervention.   Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy know that an angel’s work is n...

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The World's Strongest Librarian: A Book Lover's Adventures

by Josh Hanagarne

Published: 2014-05-06

Paperback: 304 pages

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A funny and uplifting story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette’s found salvation in books and weight lifting Josh Hanagarne couldn’t be invisible if he tried. Although he wouldn't officially be diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome until his freshman year of high school, Josh was six years ...

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The Gods of Guilt (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel)

by Michael Connelly

Published: 2014-05-06

Paperback: 416 pages

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Defense attorney Mickey Haller is forced to bend the law until it breaks when he is hired to defend a man accused of killing a prostitute in this novel of courtroom suspense, the "best one yet" (The Washington Post).Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California pena...

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Kill Fee (A Stevens and Windermere Novel)

by Owen Laukkanen

Published: 2014-03-20

Hardcover: 400 pages

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The new Stevens and Windermere novel from one of the most dazzlingly acclaimed new writers in crime fiction.   The billionaire picked a heck of a way to die. On a beautiful Saturday in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, state investigator Kirk Stevens and FBI special agent Carla Winder...

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Not My Father's Son: A Memoir

by Alan Cumming

Published: 2014-10-07

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.A beloved star of stage, television, and film—“one of the most fun p...

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A Merger of Equals

by Debra H. Snider

Published: 2006-11-01

Paperback: 477 pages

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From its provocative opening sentence to its touching final pages, this novel will entertain you, inspire you, and change the way you think. A Merger of Equals is the story of Jane and Charlie and their climb up the corporate ladder. As it interweaves business-savvy information and realiti...

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The Unholy Murder of Ash Wednesday: The Stained Life and Rude Times of Mob Wannabe

by Dominick D. DiPaolo, Jeff Pinski

Published: 2014-06-27

Hardcover: 514 pages

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Erie, Pennsylvania; January 3, 1983: Are you ready for some football? Frank Ash Wednesday Dovishaw was more than ready that bitterly cold Monday night. He didn t really care who won or lost the last National Football League game of the regular season. But the man also called Bolo did indeed care about...

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Notice (High Risk Books)

by Heather Lewis

Published: 2004-08-01

Paperback: 208 pages

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As a young adult, she started to turn tricks in the parking lot of the local bar. Not because she needed the money, but because the money made explicit what sex had always been for her, a loveless transaction.A sadist takes her home to replay family dramas with his beautiful wife, and she ...