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Budding Prospects: A Pastoral
All Felix Nasmyth and friends have to do is harvest a crop of cannabis sativa ... and half a million tax-free dollars will be theirs. But they haven’t reckoned on...
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Without a Hero
A critic once said of T. Coraghessan Boyle, “More happens in one of Boyle’s stories than in most post-Victorian novels.” This is precisely the case in Without a...
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World's End
Haunted by the burden of his family’s traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts...
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The Tortilla Curtain
Men and women with brown faces and strong backs who risk everything to cross the Mexican border and invade the American Dream are the Okies of the 1990s. Two of...
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Riven Rock
T. C. Boyle’s seventh novel transforms two characters straight out of history into rich mythic figures whose tortured love story is as heartbreaking as it is...
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A Great Memoir, August 1, 2002By Paula Sharp, author (New York) - See all my reviewsThis review is from: Pagan Time: An American Childhood (Hardcover)Whenever...
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         It’s a Friday afternoon in October 1970, on a college campus in western Pennsylvania, and Nick Copeland is quietly going out of...
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A charmingly funny testament to second chances in life and love from the acclaimed author ofWhistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter  Lisa Patton won the hearts of...
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Secrets prove deadly in this new novel from Tasha Alexander featuring Lady Emily Hargreaves. Some very prominent people in London are waking up to find their...
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  What does grief taste like? What does it weigh? How does it quietly curve around your heart, begging long-kept secrets to become unburied? When history...
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  Divorced American academic David Reid teaches English by day and spends his free time writing mystery novels that nobody reads. In London he meets his new...
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  After fleeing to Paris to escape communist rule, Polish émigré and piano player Jerzy Wozzeck finds it nearly impossible to support his family on his low-...
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PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS "In his beautifully written memoir . . . he relays these memories with neither bitterness nor self-serving pity--just a good dose of humor...
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Think homeschooling is only for a handful of eccentrics on either end of the political spectrum? Think again. Today in America, two million primary- and secondary...
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This book is a comprehensive training manual for Level Three of Usui Reiki Ryoho. Usui Reiki Ryoho is the traditional form of Reiki based upon the original...
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This book is a comprehensive training manual for Level Four of Usui Reiki Ryoho. Usui Reiki Ryoho is the traditional form of Reiki based upon the original teachings...
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