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Webster Filmore Goodhue has found temporary work as one of the mop-up crew for the Los Angeles County crime division. In other words, he cleans up grisly crime scenes for the cops. When the daughter... |
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Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic... |
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Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacker lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he is... |
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| Irving's most famous story about Ichabod Crane--a timid schoolmaster and superstitious outsider in the the haunted Dutch community of Tarry Town--and his fateful encounter with the ghost of a... |
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Maddy Sprowls, newspaper librarian for the Hannawa Herald-Union, prefers to stay in the newspaper morgue and do her job. But one Saturday, she sees four elderly women get out of a taxicab at a... |
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| When U.S. Marine Logan Thibault finds a photograph of a smiling young woman half-buried in the dirt during his third tour of duty in Iraq, his first instinct is to toss it aside. Instead, he brings it... |
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| A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California.
Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy... |
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The last novel completed by Jane Austen before her death, Persuasion is often thought to reflect on the author's own lost love. Sir Walter Elliot has raised his three daughters with his own... |
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Frank Machianno, an affable, funny, middle-aged Italian with a love of people and life, has his own life turned upside down when his past revisits him in the form of a wise-assed kid who knows that... |
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2007 Audie® Award Finalist - Classics The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.... |
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