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I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections

Nora Ephron · Vintage
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback

Nora Ephron returns with her first book since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn't (yet)...
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Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of the Atlanta Hostage Hero

Ashley Smith · William Morrow
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The author presents an account of being held hostage by courthouse killer Brian Nichols in her suburban Atlanta apartment, relating personal events of her life, and describing how her faith in God enabled her to persevere.
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The Candymakers

Wendy Mass · Little, Brown, 2010.
Pages: 453
Format: Print book

In the town of Spring Haven, four children have been selected to compete in the national candymaking contest of a lifetime. Who will make a candy more delicious than the Oozing Crunchorama or the Neon Yellow Lightning Chew?Logan, the candymaker's son, who can detect the color of chocolate...
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Terminal City

Linda Fairstein · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

Grand Central Terminal, at the very center of New York City, is the sixth most visited tourist attraction in the world. From the world?s largest Tiffany clock to using electric trains since the early 1900s, it has been a symbol of beauty and innovation for more than one hundred years. But "the...
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Life at the Marmont: The Inside Story of Hollywood's Legendary Hotel of the Stars--Chateau Marmont

Fred E. Basten · Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Raymond Sarlot bought the Chateau Marmont in 1975, but what was originally a business purchase became a love affair as he delved into the hotel's incredible history. From its perch overlooking the Sunset Strip, the glamorous Marmont reigned for decades as the spot for artists, writers,...
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We the people : the modern-day figures who have reshaped the founding fathers' vision of what... america is.

Juan Williams · Crown
Pages: 448
Format: Print book

What would the Founding Fathers think about America today? Over 200 years ago the Founders broke away from the tyranny of the British Empire to build a nation based on the principles of freedom, equal rights, and opportunity for all men. But life in the United States today is vastly different...
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Blackberry Pie Murder

Joanne Fluke · Thorndike Press; Lrg edition
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Bestselling Author Life is never really quiet for Hannah Swensen. Her mother?s wedding is a month away and guess who?s in charge of the planning? Yet just when her biggest challenge seems to be whether to use buttercream or fondant for the wedding cake, Hannah accidentally...
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The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II

Judith M. Heimann · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

N ovember 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast. Instead they found themselves unexpectedly facing a Japanese fleet—and were shot down. When they cut themselves loose from their parachutes, they were scattered across...
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John Marshall : definer of a nation

Jean Edward Smith · H. Holt & Co
Format: Book

A New York Times Notable Book of 1996It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of the man who shaped both court and country, whose life "reads like an early history of the United States,"...
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How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood

William J. Mann · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Elizabeth Taylor has never been short on star power, but in this unprecedented biography, the spotlight is entirely on her—a spirited beauty full of magic, professional daring, and wit.   Acclaimed biographer William Mann follows Elizabeth Taylor publicly as she makes her ascent at MGM,...
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As Night Falls: A Novel

Jenny Milchman · Ballantine Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Ruin Falls and Cover of Snow comes a breathless new novel of psychological suspense about a dark, twisted turn of events that could shatter a family - a read perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, Chris Bohjalian, and Nancy Pickard.Sandy Tremont has always tried...
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Fort

Cynthia DeFelice · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 199
Format: Hardcover

In this boys-will-be-boys summer story about friendship and revenge, eleven-year-old Wyatt and his friend Augie aren't looking for a fight. They're having the best summer of their lives hanging out in the fort they built in the woods, fishing and hunting, cooking over a campfire, and sleeping...
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Maeve Binchy: The Biography

Piers Dudgeon · Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Maeve Binchy's heartwarming tales of love, life, and loss made her one of America's best-loved storytellers. Her novels, which sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, captured imaginations on both sides of the Atlantic in a way that most authors only dream of. Seared with a truth...
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

Amy Schumer · Gallery Books
Pages: 323
Format: Print book

#1 New York Times Bestseller "Amy Schumer's book will make you love her even more. For a comedian of unbridled (and generally hilarious) causticity, Schumer has written a probing, confessional, unguarded, and, yes, majorly humanizing non-memoir, a book that trades less on sarcasm,...
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