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Petty Magic by Camille DeAngelis - Excerpt With Bonus Content

Evelyn Harbinger sees nothing wrong with a one-night stand. At 149 years old, Eve may look like she bakes oatmeal cookies in the afternoon and dozes in her rocking chair in the evening, b...

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Keeping Time by Stacey McGlynn - Excerpt with Bonus Content

Daisy Phillips is tired of being treated like an old lady. Sure, there was that incident with the lawn mower and the mud. And she did get trapped at the top of a ladder. But that doesn’t ...

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The Stuff That Never Happened by Maddie Dawson - Excerpt

What if you were married to a wonderful husband for twenty-eight years but in love with another man? What if you were in love with them both? Annabelle McKay knows she shouldn’t have an...

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Enough Moment by John Prendergast and Don Cheadle - Excerpt

Had Enough? Join activists, organizations, and celebrities to fight human rights crimes in Africa. Human rights activist John Prendergast and Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle bring us...

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Fragile by Lisa Unger - Excerpt With Bonus Content

Everybody knows everybody in The Hollows, a quaint, charming town outside of New York City. It’s a place where neighbors keep an eye on one another’s kids, where people say hello in the g...

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Patti LuPone by Patti LuPone - Excerpt

“I have been incredibly fortunate over the course of my career to have been associated with some extraordinary dramatic and musical productions, and also some rather spectacular disasters...

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The Kids Are All Right by Diana Welch and Liz Welch with Amanda Welch and Dan...

“Perfect is boring.” Well, 1983 certainly wasn’t boring for the Welch family. Somehow, between their handsome father’s mysterious death, their glamorous soap-opera-star mother’s cancer d...

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The King's Mistress by Emma Campion - Excerpt

History has not been kind to Alice Perrers, the notorious mistress of King Edward III. Scholars and contemporaries alike have deemed her a manipulative woman who used her great beauty and...

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Female Nomad and Friends by Rita Gelman -- excerpt

In 1987, Rita Gelman, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putt...

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Twelve Rooms with a View by Theresa Rebeck - Excerpt

In this entertaining yarn by acclaimed playwright, screenwriter, and author Theresa Rebeck, we follow Tina Finn—a woman both comical and compelling, well intentioned and a bit of a thief—...

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Ten Minutes From Home by Beth Greenfield - Excerpt

In this searing, sparely written, and surprisingly wry memoir, Beth Greenfield shares what happens in 1982 when, as a twelve-year-old, she survives a drunk-driving accident that kills her...

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The One That I Want by Allison Winn Scotch -- Excerpt

The One That I Want A Novel Written by Allison Winn Scotch * Format: Hardcover, 288 pages * On Sale: June 1, 2010 * Price: $24.00 Tilly Farmer is thirty-two years old and has ...

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All Over the Map by Laura Fraser -- Excerpt

All Over the Map Written by Laura Fraser * Format: Hardcover, 288 pages * On Sale: June 1, 2010 * Price: $24.00 What's a wise, witty travel writer to do when she reaches forty...

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Outer Banks House by Diann Ducharme -- Excerpt

The Outer Banks House A Novel Written by Diann Ducharme * Format: Hardcover, 304 pages * On Sale: June 8, 2010 * Price: $25.00 As the wounds of the Civil War are just beginnin...

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Shift by Tim Kring & Dale Peck - Excerpt

Heroes creator Tim Kring injects history with a supernatural, hallucinogenic "what-if". Set in the crucible of the 1960s, Shift is the story of Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is ...

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