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At Home Reader September 2012
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Albright, Madeleine Korbel. Prague Winter : a Personal Story of Remembrance and War 1937-1948 From former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright comes a moving and thoughtful memoir of her formative years in Czechoslovakia during the tumult of Nazi occupation, World War II, fascism, and the onset of the Cold War. -- Publisher's description. 2012 Other formats available |
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Bauermeister, Erica. Joy for Beginners Six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's recovery from cancer, where she strikes a bargain with them: to celebrate her new lease on life, she'll do the one thing that's always terrified her, but if she does, each of them will also do one thing that they'd find difficult. 2011 Other formats available |
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Brown, Rita Mae. The Big Cat Nap : the 20th Anniversary Mrs. Murphy Mystery "When a series of inexplicable car accidents are attributed to driver error, Harry Harristeen knows that something is amiss. Together with her intrepid team of feline, canine, and equine helpers, she begins to investigate." --Provided by publisher. 2012 Other formats available |
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Cain, Susan Quiet : the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations. 2012 Other formats available |
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Garwood, Julie. Sweet Talk When his carefully planned FBI sting is foiled by IRS attorney Olivia MacKenzie's efforts to untangle an elaborate Ponzi scheme, agent Grayson Kincaid becomes the woman's protector against dangerous and corrupt adversaries. 2012 Other formats available |
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Gillon, Steven M. Pearl Harbor : FDR Leads the Nation into War Explores the anxious and emotional events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, showing how the president and the American public responded in the pivotal hours that followed the attack. 2011 Other formats available |
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Harden, Blaine Escape from Camp 14 : One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Twenty-six years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea. This is the gripping, terrifying story of his escape from this no-exit prison-- to freedom in South Korea. 2012 Other formats available |
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Imboden, Thatcher Lyn-Lake The Lyn-Lake area of Minneapolis, centered around the intersection of Lyndale Avenue and West Lake Street, is one of the city's most distinctive neighborhoods. Available in regular print only 2011 |
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Johansen, Iris. What Doesn't Kill You When CIA operative Catherine Ling's old friend Hu Chang creates something so deadly, and completely untraceable, the chase is on to be the first to get it. With rogue operative John Gallo also on the hunt, Catherine finds herself pitted against a group so villainous and a man so evil that she may not survive the quest to protect those she cares about. 2012 Other formats available |
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Keillor, Garrison. Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny "On the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey Roast Beef who is demanding to hear what lucrative scheme Guy is cooking up with stripper-turned-women's-studies-professor Naomi Fallopian. Everyone wants to know-Joey, Lieutenant McCafferty, reporter Gene Williker, Guy 2012 Other formats available |
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Kingsbury, Karen The Bridge Molly lives alone in Oregon, but her heart is back in Tennessee, where she walked away from a man she cannot forget. Also available on compact disc 2012 Other formats available |
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LaPlante, Alice, 1958- Turn of Mind Implicated in the murder of her best friend, Jennifer White, a brilliant retired surgeon with dementia, struggles with fractured memories of their complex relationship and wonders if she actually committed the crime. 2011 Other formats available |
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Lively, Penelope, 1933- How it All Began The mugging of a retired schoolteacher on a London street has unexpected repercussions for her friends and neighbors when it inadvertently reveals an illicit love affair, leads to a business partnership, and helps an immigrant to reinvent his life. 2012 Other formats available |
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Lustbader, Wendy. Life Gets Better : the Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older Argues that, in contrast to the popular image of old age as a kind of sad general decline, life for older people is often marked by increased self-knowledge, confidence, and spiritual awareness. 2011 Other formats available |
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Macomber, Debbie. The Inn at Rose Harbor : a Novel Jo Marie Rose opens the Rose Harbor Inn bed and breakfast in Cedar Cove in order to start a new life, but the inn and its first guests bring surprises into Jo's life. 2012 Other formats available |
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Nasser, Dave Giant George : Life with the World's Biggest Dog "The funny and heartwarming story of one couple's unexpected life with the 'runt of the litter' puppy who grew to be the largest dog in the world...in fact ever"--Provided by the publisher. 2012 Other formats available |
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Pillemer, Karl A. 30 Lessons for Living : Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans More than one thousand extraordinary Americans share their stories and the wisdom they have gained on living, loving, and finding happiness. Pillemer interviewed people over the age of sixty-five to seek their counsel on all the big issues-- children, marriage, money, career, aging-- and found that he consistently heard advice that pointed to these thirty lessons for living. 2011 Other formats available |
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Powell, Colin L. It Worked for Me : in Life and Leadership Colin Powell, one of America's most admired public figures, reveals the principles that have shaped his life and career in this inspiring and engrossing memoir.--Publisher description. 2012 Other formats available |
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Putney, Mary Jo No Longer a Gentleman Grey Sommers, Lord Wyndham, never met a predicament he couldn't charm his way out of. Then a tryst with a government official's wife during a bit of casual espionage in France condemns him to a decade in a dungeon, leaving him a shadow of his former self. Yet his greatest challenge may be the enigmatic spy sent to free his body, the only woman who might heal his soul. Cassie Fox lost everything in the chaos of revolution, leaving only a determination to help destroy Napoleon's empire through her perilous calling. Rescuing Grey is merely one more mission. But a spy and a lord are divided by an impassable gulf even if they manage to survive one last, terrifying mission. 2012 Other formats available |
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Quirk, Matthew The 500 : a Novel Former con artist and Harvard Law student Mike Ford accepts a position with the DC-based Davies Group, a consulting firm whose specialty is pulling strings for the five hundred most powerful people inside the Beltway. 2012 Other formats available |
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