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Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong

Paperback: 496 pages

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Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century.�He was a�phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts four decades after he cut his first record. Offstag...

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Popular Music From Vittula: A Novel

by Mikael Niemi

Published: 2004-10-15

Paperback: 237 pages

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"A blissfully eccentric, fiction-enhanced memoir. . . . His prose buzzes with wonder, fearlessness and ecstatic ignorance: the sensations of youth. Each chapter is an epic in miniature."-Hugo Lindgren, The New York Times Magazine"Haunting and glorious . . . Niemi's finest achievement is to...

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Population: 485 (P.S.)

by Michael Perry

Published: 2015-08-25

Paperback: 234 pages

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Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin, where the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the back...

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Por la vida de mi hermana (My Sister's Keeper): Novela

by Jodi Picoult

Published: 2008-03-04

Paperback: 464 pages

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�Puede un padre o una madre amar demasiado? �O es que acaso tanto amor nunca es suficiente?Anna Fitzgerald no est� enferma, aunque pudiera parecerlo. Con apenas trece a�os de edad ha soportado innumerables operaciones, inyecciones y transfusiones para que su hermana mayor Kate pueda de alg...

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Porcelain On Steel | Women of West Point's Long Gray Line

by Donna M. McAleer

Published: 2010-05-14

Hardcover: 424 pages

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In an era where the American public is saturated with women selling sexuality, this book highlights those who, blessed with strong character traits, use them to make a positive contribution to society. Leadership is a matter of character; leadership is matter of how to be, not how to do it...

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Porch Lights: A Novel

by Dorothea Benton Frank

Published: 2012-06-12

Kindle Edition: 336 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank is back home in the Carolina lowcountry, spinning a tale that brims with the warmth, charm, heart, and humor that has become her trademark. Porch Lights is a stirring, emotionally rich multigenerational story—a poignant tale of life...

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Port City Black and White: A Brandon Blake Mystery

by Gerry Boyle

Published: 2011-09-16

Hardcover: 264 pages

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Brandon Blake, the tough and resourceful kid from the Portland waterfront, has made it. He's been hired by the Portland Police Department, partly as payback for stopping a vicious cop killer in PORT CITY SHAKEDOWN. But the newest rookie on the night shift isn't pulling any punches. And when a drug-addled...

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Port Mortuary (A Scarpetta Novel)

by Patricia Cornwell

Published: 2010-11-30

Hardcover: 496 pages

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The new Kay Scarpetta novel from the world's #1 bestselling crime writer. "When it comes to the forensic sciences, nobody can touch Cornwell." -The New York Times Book Review Port Mortuary, the title of Patricia Cornwell's eighteenth Scarpetta novel, is literally a port for the dead. I...

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Portnoy s Complaint

by Philip ROTH

Published: 1969

Hardcover: 0 pages

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In 1998, Modern Library ranked this novel 52nd out of 100 for best English language novels of the 20th Century. The novel tells of the humorous monologue of a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish Bachelor who confesses to his psychoanalyst in coarse, vulgar, and abusive language; Sparking...

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The Portofino Deception

by Jeffrey S. Stephens

Published: 2007-10-21

Hardcover: 360 pages

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When terrorists armed with poison gas plan a wave of attacks against the U.S. and its allies, retired CIA agent Jordan Sandor finds himself drawn into the chase, from New York to Florida to the Italian Riviera in this fast-paced thriller.