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A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--And a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression (Center Point Platinum Nonfiction)

by Ted Gup

Published: 2010-12-01

Hardcover: 478 pages

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* * * Interesting,
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A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression

by Ted Gup

Published: 2010-10-28

Hardcover: 384 pages

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An inspiring account of America at its worst-and Americans at their best-woven from the stories of Depression-era families who were helped by gifts from the author's generous and secretive grandfather. Shortly before Christmas 1933 in Depression-scarred Canton, Ohio, a small newspaper ad...

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* * * Slow,
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The Secret Hangman (Peter Diamond Investigation)

by Peter Lovesey

Published: 2008-04-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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?A special treat.??Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review?Peter Lovesey has cloaked the classic ?puzzle? mystery in a fully realized world of coppers and local landmarks.??Houston Chronicle?Lovesey . . . should be on every British mystery lover's short list, and this is a fine plac...

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The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption

by John Perkins

Published: 2007-06-05

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A riveting expos� of international corruption�and what we can do about it, from the author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list. In his stunning memoir, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins detailed his former rol...

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* * * * Fun,
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The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

by Lauren Willig

Published: 2005-12-27

Paperback: 449 pages

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Nothing goes right for Eloise. The one day she wears her new suede boots, it rains cats and dogs. When the subway stops short, she’s always the one thrown into some stranger’s lap. Plus, she’s had more than her share of misfortune in the way of love. In fact, ever since she realized ...

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* * * Addictive,
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The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

Published: 1992-09-11

Paperback: 576 pages

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DECEMBER 2022 READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch. Under the influence of a charism...

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The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister

Published: 2010-03-18

Paperback: 0 pages

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Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she had kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust. This book reveals that story. Nonna’s childhood writings, revisited in her late adulthood, tell the remarkable tale of how a Russian girl from a family...

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The Secret Ingredient Murders: A Eugenia Potter Mystery

by Nancy Pickard, Virginia Rich

Published: 2002-02-26

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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The Secret Ingredient: A Novel

by Jane Heller

Published: 2003-03-14

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life

by William Nicholson

Published: 2010-07-01

Hardcover: 346 pages

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"The writing is unobtrusively brilliant. I can't remember enjoying and admiring a new novel more."--Elizabeth Jane Howard, author of Marking Time "Utterly captures the sense of quiet desperation of ordinary lives . . . and the ways in which life turns on a sixpence."--Kate Mosse, author of...