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Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace

by Gordon MacKenzie

Published: 1998-04-01

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Creativity is crucial to business success. But too often, even the most innovative organization quickly becomes a "giant hairball"--a tangled, impenetrable mass of rules, traditions, and systems, all based on what worked in the past--that exercises an inexorable pull into mediocrity. Gordo...

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The Orchard: A Memoir

by Theresa Weir

Published: 2011-09-21

Hardcover: 240 pages

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THE ORCHARD is the story of a street-smart city girl who must adapt to a new life on an apple farm after she falls in love with Adrian Curtis, the golden boy of a prominent local family whose lives and orchards seem to be cursed. Married after only three months, young Theresa finds life with Adrian on...

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The Orchard: A Memoir

by Adele Robertson

Published: 1997-01-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir of a young woman's single-handed struggle to save her New England farm in the depths of the Great Depression. Recently discovered by the author's daughter, it tells the story of Adele "Kitty" Robertson, young and energetic, but un...

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Orchard: A Novel

by Larry Watson

Published: 2004-06-08

Paperback: 256 pages

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From the bestselling author of Montana 1948 comes the explosive story of an artist, his muse, and the staggering price they pay for their chance at immortality. Sonja Skordahl, a Norwegian immigrant, came to America looking for a new life. Instead, she settled in Door County, Wisconsin, an...

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The Orchard: A Novel

by Jeffrey Stepakoff

Published: 2011-07-05

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The passionate new novel by the author of FIREWORKS OVER TOCCOA. Grace Lyndon is a rising ingenue in the world of perfumes and flavors; a stiletto-wearing, work-a-holic in Atlanta, she develops aromas and tastes to enthrall the senses. Dylan Jackson is a widowed single father whose heart ...

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The Orchardist: A Novel (P.S.)

by Amanda Coplin

Published: 2012-08-21

Kindle Edition: 579 pages

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At once intimate and epic, The Orchardist is historical fiction at its best, in the grand literary tradition of William Faulkner, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, and Toni Morrison.In her stunningly original and haunting debut novel, Amanda Coplin evokes a powerful sense...

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The Orchid House: A Novel

by Lucinda Riley

Published: 2012-02-14

Kindle Edition: 464 pages

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Spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from the Wharton Park estate in England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist and the aristocratic Crawford family, whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences.As a child, concert pianis...

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The Orchid Thief

by Susan Orlean

Published: 2000-01-04

Paperback: 320 pages

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The orchid thief is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy in spite of the fact that he is missing all his teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. This national bestseller follows him into the Florida swamp to relate his mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession....

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The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

by Linda Colley

Published: 2008-11-11

Paperback: 420 pages

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In this remarkable reconstruction of an eighteenth-century woman's extraordinary and turbulent life, historian Linda Colley not only tells the story of Elizabeth Marsh, one of the most distinctive travelers of her time, but also opens a window onto a radically transforming world.Marsh was conceived in...

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An Order of Amelie, Hold the Fries

by Nina Schindler

Published: 2004-09-04

Paperback: 136 pages

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An ultra-modern teen love story. Seventeen-year-old Tim is smitten when he glimpses the girl of his dreams. But who is she? When her name and address falls from her bag, he can't believe his luck. Tim boldly writes to his fantasy woman. But to his surprise, the address belongs to som...