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Therese Raquin (Penguin Classics)

by Émile Zola

Published: 2005-02-22

Paperback: 240 pages

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In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband’s earthy friend Laurent, but their ani...

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There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble

by Laurie Notaro

Published: 2007-05-29

Paperback: 320 pages

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The first novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club is a rollicking tale of small-town peculiarity, dark secrets, and one extraordinary beauty pageant.When her husband is offered a post at a small university, Maye is only too happy to pack...

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There's Cake in My Future

by Kim Gruenenfelder

Published: 2010-12-21

Paperback: 368 pages

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After listening to her closest friends’ latest travails in love, parenting, and careers, superstitious bride-to-be Nicole (Nic) believes she has the perfect recipe for everyone’s happiness: a bridal shower “cake pull” in which each ribboned silver charm planted in her cake will bri...

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There's No Place Like Here

by Cecelia Ahern

Published: 2008-01-01

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Sometimes it takes losing everything to truly find yourself... Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal--from the lone sock that vanishes in the washing machine to...

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There's No Such Thing As "Business" Ethics: There's Only One Rule For Making Decisions

by John C. Maxwell

Published: 2003-08

Hardcover: 160 pages

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There's no such thing as business ethics. How can that be? Because a single standard applies to both your business and personal life-and it's one we all know and trust: the Golden Rule. Now bestselling author John C. Maxwell shows you how this revered ideal works everywhere, and how, especially in business,...

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These Boots Weren't Made for Walking

by Melody Carlson

Published: 2007-06-19

Paperback: 314 pages

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Willing to make the necessary sacrifices–even skipping the occasional latte–to ensure career success, 31-year-old Cassidy Cantrell “invests” in a chic pair of boots, certain they’ll make a spectacular impression and help seal the deal on a long-anticipated pro...

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* * * Confusing

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These Foolish Things

by Deborah Moggach

Published: 2005

Paperback: 256 pages

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These Girls

by Sarah Pekkanen

Published: 2012-04-10

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Family secrets may shape us all, but it's the rich, complicated layers of friendship that can save us. Cate, Renee, and Abby have come to New York for very different reasons, and in a bustling city of millions, they are linked together through circumstance and chance. Cate has just been na...

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These Granite Islands

by Ms Sarah L Stonich

Published: 2011-03-09

Paperback: 316 pages

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"One of the joys of reading is coming across a book in which language is perfectly wedded to story. These Granite Islands is a marvelous first novel, confronting with humor, bravery and pathos the manner in which we construct or destroy our various loves." Colum McCann, author of "Let The Great World...

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These Granite Islands

by Sarah Stonich

Published: 2011-04-21

Kindle Edition: 338 pages

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From her hospital bed, 99-year-old Isobel Howard recalls her unexpected friendship with Cathryn, a childless, Chicago-born heiress who shunned her family, attended art school and married an Irishman with no pedigree. During the summer of 1936, the women find themselves alone in Cypress, MN...