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This lyrical and disturbing memoir by the author of four novels (Foreigner, etc.) tells the story of an Iranian girl growing up in a culture where, despite the...
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Fully illustrated GPS ready walking guides from Discovery Walking Guides at www.walking.demon.co.uk Walk! The Alpujarras Walk! Mallorca (North & Mountains) Walk...
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Jenny Dunfre is a graduate student in tropical ornithology who, because of a sexual indiscretion, is banished from her relatively staid appointment at research...
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Writing Killer Mysteries with Kris Neri
Learn at your own pace with Killer Fiction Workshops! In "Writing Killer Mysteries: 8 Lessons To Get You Into Print," award-winning author and UCLA...
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Bumping About Brittany is a guidebook with a difference, a series of excursions into the cultural, physical and emotional heartland of Brittany that can be followed...
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Santa Margarita y Los Monjes is a small place, but that doesn't prevent things happening on a large scale. Gravity is suspended in the Case of the Disappearing...
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A touching account of friendship and betrayal in Moorish Spain, WALK ON, BRIGHT BOY evokes the pleasures and purposes of walking as a way of engaging with life....
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The Hollands' Adventure
This is the first in a series of seven adventures taken by the Holland family. Meet Moe the oldest son, Charlie his younger brother, their mother Rose Holland and...
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Fill Me In, too
Come away with me again into a world of wonder both strange and beautiful; a place to explore and invent with color texture and mood. Designs born of desire...
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Because I Love Her
This profound and poignant collection highlights some of the best literary writers of our time in an era when the roles of mothers and daughters are constantly...
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Along the Border Lies
Alfredo is a confused teenager from Chula Vista who forms a vigilante group to assault Mexican immigrants; Miranda is a Tijuana socialite and single mother involved...
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Meg Waite Clayton's first novel, the Bellwether Prize finalist The Language of Light is now available in paperback as a Random House Reader's Circle Selection...
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Restless, lonely, romantic, the disparate protagonists in On The Nature Of Human Romantic Interaction safeguard their emotions behind walls of logic and knowledge....
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Expeditions
From Karl Iagnemma, recipient of the Paris Review Plimpton Prize, comes a fierce and gorgeous story of an estranged father and son’s unlikely journey though the...
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Done for a Dime
The death of an old jazz musician, the axman for legends like Bobby Blue Bland and King Curtis, sounds the blue note of this dazzling novel, narrated in the blunt...
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An office comedy about a terrific temporary secretary who starts to short circuit when he tries to go "perm".
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An 11 year old kid, Izzy, breaks in to other people's apartments in his tenement building -- not necessarily to steal, but as a coping mechanism to deal with a...
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Xochitl and the Flowers/ Xochitl, La nina de las Flores
Miles away from their home in El Salvador, Xochitl (Soh-cheel) and her family make a home in America. Xochitl misses her family�s small flower business and garden...
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