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Aug.23.2011
The birth of this book: a visit to my doctor's office. Sometimes it pays to pick up an old magazine and flip through it....
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Oct.29.2008
Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University.
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the...
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Oct.28.2008
William Van Meter explores the brutal murder of college student Katie Autry in 2003 and the subsequent investigation and trial in his small home town.
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Sep.23.2008
She was my first kiss. My first love. She was a little match girl who could see the future in the flame of a candle. She was a runaway who taught me more about life than anyone has before or since. And when she was gone my innocence left with her.
As I begin to write, a part of me feels as if I am...
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Sep.12.2008
Reunite with the girls from Sex and the South Beach Chicas in award-winning author Caridad Piñeiro's SOUTH BEACH CHICAS CATCH THEIR MAN. On August 6, 2008, NPR featured Caridad Pineiro’s SOUTH BEACH CHICAS CATCH THEIR MAN on their ALL THINGS CONSIDERED broadcast. NPR found that Pineiro’s “novels...
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Jun.26.2008
Part of that new math, says #1 New York Times bestselling author Jill Conner Browne -- whom USA Today calls "just plain funny" -- includes the addition of an outsize sense of humor to balance the equation of your growing family. The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit...
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Jun.25.2008
Culture, politics, and family collide in this gripping front-row perspective of the Middle East conflict and of the courageous women working behind the scenes for peace and challenging the patriarchal traditions of their homeland. Deborah Kanafani has been Director of International Productions for...
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Jun.25.2008
Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to Get Smart reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors -- but the upshot...
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