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Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire by Barbara Lynch
?If you have an appetite for culinary adventure, you?ll devour the feisty and fun memoir? (Elle magazine) by James Beard award-winning chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef judge Barbara Lynch as she recounts her rise from her rough ?Southie? childhood to culinary stardom.
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Silence of the Wolf (Silver Town Wolf, Bk 4) by Terry Spear
Life for the Silver Pack just got wilder...
Elizabeth Wildwood has been a loner all her life, ostracized because of her half-wolf, half-coyote blood. When she ventures into gray wolf territory on a dangerous quest, she runs right into the sexiest shifter she's ever met. And for the first... more
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The Stolen Twins by Shari J. Ryan
Auschwitz, 1944: “You can’t leave me,” I whisper, my hand trembling as I reach for her cheek. “You can’t. We’re in this life together, always, just you and me.” This utterly heartbreaking yet beautifully hopeful World War Two page-turner tells the story... more
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The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End Fact...
Tales of hardship, resilience and youthful high spirits, woven together to provide a moving insight into a lost way of life, as well as a timeless testament to the experience of being young and female.n the post-war years, thousands of women left school at fifteen to work in the bustling... more
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12 Months to Live by James Patterson & Mike Lupica
Tough-as-nails criminal defense attorney Jane Smith is hip-deep in the murder trial of the century.
Actually, her charmless client might’ve committed several murders.
She’s also fallen in love with a wonderful guy. And an equally wonderful dog, a mutt.
But Jane doesn’t... more
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With One Shot: Family Murder and a Search for Justice by Dorothy Marcic
The killer was behind bars?a woman who had confessed to the coldblooded murder of her husband. But Dorothy Marcic suspected a more sinister tale at the heart of her beloved uncle?s violent death. And nothing would stop her from getting to the truth.
The brutal murder of LaVerne Stordock, a... more
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The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story by David Crow
Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his three siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con... more
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about.
Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look... more
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The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naive young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to “the land beyond... more
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Fixing Freddie: A TRUE story about a Boy, a Single Mom, and the Very Bad Beagle Who S...
There are bad dogs--and then there are bad beagles.In this hilarious and heartwarming memoir, single mother Paula Munier takes on the world's worst beagle--and loses every time. She tries everything to fix Freddie--but nothing really works. As her youngest son grows up and prepares to leave her... more
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Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
Sometimes it's the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal. . . . A murder... . . . a tragic accident... . . . or just parents behaving badly?
What's indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what?
"Big Little Lies" follows three women, each at a... more
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel near the Kremlin. An indomitable man of erudition and wit, Rostov must now live in an attic room as some of the most... more
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Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music by Blair Tindall
From her debut recital at Carnegie Hall to performing with the orchestras of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, oboist Blair Tindall has been playing classical music professionally for twenty-five years. She's also lived the secret life of musicians who survive hand to mouth, trading sex and drugs... more
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The Little Liar by Mitch Albom
Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis has never told a lie. His schoolmate, Fannie, loves him because of it. Nico’s older brother Sebastian resents him for both these facts. When their young lives are torn apart during the war, it will take them decades to find each other... more
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The Senator's Wife by Liv Constantine
After a tragic chain of events led to the deaths of their spouses two years ago, D.C. philanthropist Sloane Chase and Senator Whit Montgomery are finally starting to move on. The horrifying ordeal drew them together, and now they're ready to settle down again—with each other. As Sloane... more
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Before She Disappeared (Frankie Elkin, Bk 1) by Lisa Gardner
Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when... more
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Life and Other Inconveniences by Kristan Higgins
Emma London never thought she had anything in common with her grandmother Genevieve London. The regal old woman came from wealthy and bluest-blood New England stock, but that didn't protect her from life's cruelest blows: the disappearance of Genevieve's young son, followed by the... more
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The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, Bk 3) by Susan Wiggs
There is a book for everything . . .
Somewhere in the vast Library of the Universe, as Natalie thought of it, there was a book that embodied exactly the things she was worrying about.
In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother’s charming but... more
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Bar...
January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written... more
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The Hidden Child by Louise Fein
Londoners Eleanor and Edward Hamilton have it all. But the 1929 financial crash is looming, and they’re harboring a shameful secret. How far are they willing to go to protect their charmed life?
Eleanor Hamilton is happily married and mother to a beautiful four-year-old girl,... more
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The Last Thing She Ever Did by Gregg Olsen
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a psychological thriller exploring the things we dare to do when no one is looking . . .The community along Oregon?s Deschutes River is one of successful careers and perfect families. For years, up-and-comers Liz and Owen have admired their... more
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When You See Me (D. D. Warren, Bk 11) by Lisa Gardner
FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D. D. Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper Jacob Ness. When a disturbing piece of evidence is discovered in the hills of Georgia, they bring Flora Dane and true-crime... more
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Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she fills in at her family’s pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who’s made a name for himself defending IRA members.... more
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Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford
From the beloved author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about an orphan boy whose life is transformed when he is raffled off at Seattle's 1909 World Fair.
For twelve-year-old Ernest Young, a charity student at a boarding school,... more
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The Coconut Lattitudes: Secrets, Storms, and Survival in the Caribbean by Rita Gardne...
A father makes the fateful decision to leave a successful career in the US behind and move to an isolated beach in the Dominican Republic. He plants ten thousand coconut seedlings, transplants his wife and two young daughters to a small village, and declares they are the luckiest people alive. ... more
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The Queen's Secret: A Novel of England's World War II Queen by Karen Harper
If you love Jennifer Robson or The Crown you will love New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper?s novel about Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. 1939. As the wife of the King George VI and the mother of the future queen, Elizabeth??the queen mother??shows a warm, smiling face to the world. But... more
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Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America by James Fallows & De...
***NATIONAL BEST SELLER***
For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems?from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge?but it is also crafting... more
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The French House: An American Family, a Ruined Maison, and the Village That Restored ...
"On a tiny French island, a couple of American dreamers redefine their lives by restoring a ruin?which in this lovely, shimmering story becomes a parable of a saner, greener, more sustainable path that we all can follow if we will but listen to the wisdom of the villagers the way the Wallaces... more
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This Won't Hurt a Bit: (And Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhoo...
Michelle Au started medical school armed only with a surfeit of idealism, a handful of old "ER" episodes to reference, and some vague notion about "helping people." This is the story of how she grew up and became a real doctor. Through her years in medical training, she also... more
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Good in a Crisis: A Memoir by Margaret Overton
Honest, hopeful, hilarious?the smartest, most knowing account of a woman and the calamities of midlife since Nora Ephron?s wryly humorous Heartburn. During the four years of physician Margaret Overton?s acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and indiscriminately, determined to find her soul mate... more
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Dream New Dreams: Reimagining My Life After Loss by Jai Pausch
A remarkably frank, deeply moving, and inspiring memoir by Jai Pausch, whose husband, Randy, wrote the bestseller The Last Lecture while battling pancreatic cancer.
"Jai is such a giver that she often forgets to take care of herself," Randy Pausch wrote about his... more
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Kill the Ones You Love by Robert Scott
A handsome, married young father and former deputy sheriff, Gabriel Morris looked like the picture of respectability. When his mother and her boyfriend were found brutally murdered in their pleasant Oregon seaside home, authorities were shocked to find a trail leading to him. Soon, police in... more
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Dead in the Water: My Forty-Year Search for My Brother's Killer by Penny Farmer
In this shocking true-crime drama, a forty-year-old double murder brings together a grieving family and two brothers?just kids when they witnessed their father commit the brutal act?to track down a psychopath once suspected as being the Golden State Killer
?A real-life page turner more... more
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she recently made about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden the story of her own life.
What makes us... more
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Not My Father's Son: A Memoir by Alan Cumming
In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.A beloved star of stage, television, and film??one of the most fun people in... more
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The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice by...
Rebecca Musser grew up in fear, concealing her family's polygamous lifestyle from the "dangerous" outside world. Covered head-to-toe in strict, modest clothing, she received a rigorous education at Alta Academy, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints'... more
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North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Su...
Sex, drugs, and . . . bug stew? In the vein of The Glass Castle and Wild, Cea Sunrise Person?s compelling memoir of a childhood spent with her dysfunctional counter-culture family in the Canadian wilderness?a searing story of physical, emotional, and psychological survival.In the late 1960s,... more
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Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap by Judy Goldman
A routine procedure left novelist, memoirist, and poet Judy Goldman's husband paralyzed. Together is her unforgettable account of the struggle to regain their "normal" life and a nuanced portrait of a marriage tested.
When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades reads a newspaper ad for... more
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