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The Pat Conroy Cookbook

Publisher Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, November 2004 American’s favorite storyteller is back-this time with a cookbook that is also a memoir of good food and good company from his beloved South and beyond. Pat Conroy is well known to his readers as a lover of good food, but what may surprise …

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Patience With God: The Story of Zacchaeus Continuing In Us
Patience With God

Published by Doubleday Religion April 14th 2009 For all the debate about belief and nonbelief in today’s world—and how everyone becomes pigeonholed by one or the other— Tomáš Halík teaches that God requires us to persevere with our doubts, carry them in our hearts, and allow them to lead us …

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Patsy’s Italian Family Cookbook

Publisher St. Martin Press – March 24, 2015 Patsy’s Restaurant, so famous for its classic Neapolitan Italian food that Frank Sinatra used to fly his favorite dishes from its kitchen to his gigs, has had three chefs since it was founded in 1944: Patsy, his son Joe, and his grandson …

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The Philosophers’ Quarrel

Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding Publisher Yale University Press, February 2009 The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on both sides of the Channel. As the relationship between Jean-Jacques …

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The Power of Purpose: Living Well By Doing Good

Publisher Harmony/Random House, publication March 2006 THE POWER OF PURPOSE begins with a simple but remarkable statement: “The more you focus on helping others, the more you will succeed in reaching your own goals.” Peter S. Temes builds on this fundamental insight to share a simple plan for living with …

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Prisoner of Trebekistan

Publisher Crown/Random House, September 2006 Welcome to a world where obscure information is crucial to survival, vast sums of cash are at stake, and mere milliseconds can change not just a game, but the course of your life. Prisoner of Trebekistan is Bob Harris’s hilarious, insightful account of one man’s …

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The Pulpwood Queens

The Pulpwood Queens Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing, Guide To Life Publisher Grand Central, January 2008 When licensed cosmetologist turned publisher’s rep Kathy Patrick lost her job due to industry cutbacks, she wasn’t deterred. One year later, she opened Beauty and the Book, the world’s only combination beauty salon/bookstore. Soon after, …

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My Reading Life

Publisher Doubleday, November 2, 2010 Pat Conroy, the beloved American storyteller, is a voracious reader. Starting as a childhood passion that bloomed into a life-long companion, reading has been Conroy’s portal to the world, both to the furthest corners of the globe and to the deepest chambers of the human …

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The Ripple Effect

THE RIPPLE EFFECT: How Better Sex Can Lead To A Better Life by Gail Saltz, M.D. Publisher Rodale Books, April 2009 We’ve all seen the sort of woman who can walk into a room and pow! Everyone feels a pull toward her, a great gravitational tug. She’s confident. She’s dynamic. …

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The Same Sweet Girls Guide To Life

Publisher Maiden Lane Press, May 1, 2014 Written with a blend of humor and practical wisdom, The Same Sweet Girl’s Guide to Life by Cassandra King offers inspiration and solid advice to new graduates that can sustain them through life’s inevitable ups and downs. In this small book you will …

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Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids…

The One Brain Book You Need to Help Your Child Grow Brighter, Healthier, and Happier Publisher Free Press/Simon and Schuster, June 2011 Every week new discoveries about the brain make the news, often promising parents the latest “right” way to nurture their kids’ developing brains and behavior. And every day …

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The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World

Windows on the World, the Twin Towers and the Restoration of New York Publisher Abrams Books, 2019 On the streets of Manhattan, you see it around you; the people who move briskly with purpose and the ones who can barely take a step; it is a city of exploding manholes, …

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Stalking the Divine

Publisher Hyperion, August 2003 In STALKING THE DIVINE, a Cleveland woman attends Christmas Mass at an old city church seeking holiday cheer and comfort in the trappings of a faith she abandoned more than 30 years ago. Instead, she finds a tiny threadbare congregation and a nearly forgotten group of …

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Summer: A User’s Guide
Summer

Publisher Artisan/Workman Publishing, May 2007 Summer: A User’s Guide offers evocative musings to stir warm, magical memories of summers past, and reawaken the essential spirit of the season. Whether you have a few weeks off, or just the weekend, Suzanne Brown’s one-stop summer reference will make it the most memorable …

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Tell Me A Story: My Life With Pat Conroy

Publisher William Morrow, October 29, 2019 Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figure of modern Southern literature. Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced “Sunday wife” of a …

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Ten Degrees of Reckoning

Publisher Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, February 2009 In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to live their dream: to sail around the world. But one night, a freighter off the coast of New Zealand altered its course by a mere ten degrees. And changed everything. After …

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