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Standing in the Rainbow (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Fannie Flagg

Published: 2004-08-03

Kindle Edition: 544 pages

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Good news! Fannie’s back in town--and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel.Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, d...

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Standing in the Rainbow: A Novel

by Fannie Flagg

Published: 2002-08-06

Hardcover: 493 pages

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Good news! Fannie's back in town--and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel.Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, des...

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Standing Still: A Novel

by Kelly Simmons

Published: 2009-02-10

Paperback: 288 pages

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Journalist and suburban mom Claire Cooper suffers from panic disorder. Most of her anxieties seem irrational, nothing that can't be fixed with the help of some Xanax. But late one stormy summer night, when her husband, Sam, is away on one of his frequent business trips, Claire's fears come...

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Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph

by C. Vivian Stringer, Laura Tucker

Published: 2008-03-04

Hardcover: 304 pages

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“Lots of people have dreams, but C. Vivian Stringer is the dream—a coalminer’s daughter who believed when her Poppa told her there was no obstacle she could not surmount. And she lives that dream, teaching others to rise up to meet challenges, turning underdogs into champ...

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Star Bright

by Catherine Anderson

Published: 2009-01-06

Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages

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Faking her own death is the only way Rainie Hall can hope to escape her brutal, murderous husband. Now, with a new identity, she finds refuge in the rural community of Crystal Falls, Oregon, where she starts work on a horse ranch run by rugged, dangerously good-looking Parker Harrigan. Parker's...

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A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup)

by Roddy Doyle

Published: 2005-09-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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An historical novel like none before it, A Star Called Henry marks a new chapter in Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle's writing. It is a vastly more ambitious book than any he has previously written. A subversive look behind the legends of Irish republicanism, at its centre a passionate love...

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The Star Garden: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine (Sarah Agnes Prine Novels)

by Nancy E. Turner

Published: 2008-11-11

Paperback: 320 pages

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From the bestselling author of These Is My Words comes this exhilarating follow-up to the beloved Sarah's Quilt. In the latest diary entries of pioneer woman Sarah Agnes Prine, Nancy E. Turner continues Sarah's extraordinary story as she struggles to make a home in the Arizona Territory.It...

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Star Island

by Carl Hiaasen

Published: 2012-02-01

Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages

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Meet 22-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen-and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her "undercover stunt double," Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is t...

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Star Island (Random House Large Print)

by Carl Hiaasen

Published: 2010-07-27

Paperback: 528 pages

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Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (n�e Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen?and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster. Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her ?undercover stunt double,? Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the sing...

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The Star of Kazan

by Eva Ibbotson

Published: 2006-04-06

Paperback: 416 pages

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After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.