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Plantation (Lowcountry Tales)

by Dorothea Benton Frank

Published: 2004-03-02

Paperback: 544 pages

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Pat Conroy called Dorothea Benton Frank's debut, Sullivan's Island, "hilarious and wise," while Anne Rivers Siddons declared that it "roars with life." Here, Frank evokes a lush plantation in the heart of modern-day South Carolina-where family ties and hidden truths run as deep and dark as...

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Planting Dandelions: Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life

by Kyran Pittman

Published: 2011-04-28

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Introducing a writer with a keen eye, a wicked tongue, and an appealing take on family. In the family of Jen Lancaster and Elizabeth Gilbert, Kyran Pittman is the laid-back middle sister: warm and witty and confiding, with an addictively smart and genuine voice-but married with three kid...

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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein

Published: 2007-05-01

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Play Dead

by Harlan Coben

Published: 2010-09-28

Paperback: 560 pages

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Harlan Coben's first novel, now back in print. No sooner had supermodel Laura Ayers and Celtics star David Baskin said "I do" than tragedy struck. While honeymooning on Australia's Great Barrier Reed, David went out for a swim-and never returned. Now widowed and grieving, Laura's search ...

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Play Dirty: A Novel

by Sandra Brown

Published: 2007-08-14

Hardcover: 416 pages

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown is backwith a gripping story of obsession and its deadly consequences.After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to life as he knew it before he was caught ch...

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Play It As It Lays

by Joan didion

Published: 1980-08-03

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Play It As It Lays: A Novel

by Joan Didion

Published: 2005-11-15

Paperback: 240 pages

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A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, ...

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Play It From the Heart

by Neal Morgan

Published: 2000-12

Paperback: 375 pages

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Novel. Texas High School Football. Written by veteran football coach, Neal Morgan, the novel is set in the dead center of Texas' Golden Triangle,a section roughly encompassed by the cities of Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange.Narrates one full year in the lives of Jake Hart and Davy Joe...

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Play to the End

by Robert Goddard

Published: 2006-04-25

Paperback: 368 pages

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Once Toby Flood played a Bond-like hero in a Hollywood film. Now he's serving a sentence in a crippled traveling production of a newly unearthed Joe Orton play?a play that might have saved Toby's career if only someone enjoyed watching it. Painfully, the show's swan song is coming in Brigh...

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Playdate

by Thelma Adams

Published: 2012-03-13

Paperback: 304 pages

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?Adams is that rare writer who sends out every laugh with a sting in its tail. Most novels fade from the memory. This one sticks.??Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Inside their picture-perfect homes, the residents of this quiet California suburb are not at all what they seem. Lance is a former...