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Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies

by J. B. West

Published: 2014-11-18

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A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at life on Pennsylvania Avenue with America's first families, by the man who spent nearly three decades in their midst.J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue—and coordinated its ...

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The Forever Girl

by Alexander McCall Smith

Published: 2014-12-30

Paperback: 336 pages

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Amanda and her daughter Clover live in a close-knit community of expats on Grand Cayman Island, an idyllic place to all appearances. But the comfortable island life can become stifling in hard times. As Clover falls for her first love, and allows her heart to chart her life’s course, Ama...

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Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family's Lives Forever

by John Marshall

Published: 2015-02-10

Hardcover: 352 pages

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For readers of Three Cups of Tea; Eat, Pray, Love; and Wild comes the inspiring story of an ordinary American family that embarks on an extraordinary journey. Wide-Open World follows the Marshall family as they volunteer their way around the globe, living in a monkey sanctuary in Costa Ric...

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The Assassin (An Isaac Bell Adventure)

by Clive Cussler, Justin Scott

Published: 2015-03-03

Hardcover: 416 pages

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The new thriller in the #1 New York Times–bestselling Isaac Bell series from grand master of adventure Clive Cussler.  As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly tu...

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How to Stop Your Grown Up from Making Bad Decisions (Nina the Philosopher)

by Judy Balan

Published: 2014-10-01

Paperback: 80 pages

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Little Women (Puffin in Bloom)

by Louisa May Alcott

Published: 2014-08-28

Hardcover: 777 pages

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Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be ...

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Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food

by Charles Wilson, Eric Schlosser

Published: 2007-04-23

Paperback: 318 pages

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In the New York Times bestseller Chew on This, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the young. Find out what really goes on at your favorite restaurants—and what lurks between tho...

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Shark Girl

by Kelly Bingham

Published: 2010-04-13

Paperback: 288 pages

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Now in paperback— A teenager struggles through physical loss to the start of acceptance in an absorbing, artful novel at once honest and insightful, wrenching and redemptive.On a sunny day in June, at the beach with her mom and brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And...

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The Raft

by S. A. Bodeen

Published: 2013-05-28

Paperback: 256 pages

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Robie is an experienced traveler. She’s taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute....

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Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

by Candace Fleming

Published: 2011-02-08

Hardcover: 128 pages

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From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum—as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and Ben Franklin's Almanac—comes the thrilling story of America's most celebrated flyer, Amelia Earhart. In alternating chapters, Fleming deftly moves readers back and forth between Amelia's li...