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Publisher:
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
"In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood to working at revered restaurants and food publications, alternately bolstered and overshadowed by two of the most powerful men in the business. But there’s more to the story than the two bold-faced names on her resume: Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain. Behind the scenes, Laurie’s life is frequently chaotic, an often pleasurable buffet...
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Publisher:
Aster Glenn Gray
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
An m/m short story. In high school, Gabriel and Dmitri were friends (and maybe more than friends), until Dmitri's family abruptly disappeared. Years later, they reconnect, but they can't figure out how to move from friendship to romance until Gabriel's pet winged dog lends a paw.
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Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. The Butler family has had their share of trials, as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest, but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. Althea, the eldest sister and substitute matriarch, is a force to be reckoned...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Language:
English
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger reveals how to bring a marriage back from the brink of disaster. Jumping off her million-copy bestseller The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura Schlessinger exposes the sensitive and loving truths necessary to produce and sustain a wonderfully satisfying marriage. First and foremost, men and women need to understand and appreciate the uniqueness of masculinity and femininity. Both husband and wife have power in...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Language:
English
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In her most provocative book yet, Dr. Laura urgently reminds women that to take proper care of their husbands is to ensure themselves the happiness and satisfaction they yearn for in marriage. Women want to be in love, get married, and live happily ever after. Yet disrespect for men and disregard for the value, feelings, and needs of husbands has fast become the standard for male-female relations in America. Those two attitudes clash in unfortunate...
Author:
Publisher:
Pocket Books
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
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Description:
When Iris Scanlon, Half-Moon Hollow's only daytime vampire concierge, finds her newest client, Cal, poisoned on his kitchen floor, her carefully ordered life comes crashing down around her as she is forced to hide this demanding vampire at her place until he finds out who wants him permanently dead.
Author:
Series:
Feminine Pursuits volume 2
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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In this historical f/f romance you'll find: - a grumpy widowed engraver working far too hard to keep her print-shop going until her son is old enough to take over - a middle-aged lady beekeeper who goes striding about in trousers and loves bucolic poetry - a Queen on trial in Parliament and the press - luxuriant English gardens with extremely naughty statues - satirical ballads about tight pants - ... and more than you probably ever wanted to know...
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Pub. Date:
2015
Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
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Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her "sketchlings" of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among its residents.
Author:
Publisher:
Lauren Smith
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Who could resist a wager from London's most popular detective, Sherlock Holmes? Certainly not his scientist neighbor, Elise Hamblin. The challenge: Study the primal nature of men; but not just any man for her study will do. Sherlock has chosen the Earl of March, a man with a scandalous and dangerous reputation. Prospero Harrington has returned from exile to claim the title of Earl of March and his late father's mounting debts. Desperate to secure...
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Publisher:
Quaternity Books
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
These are the poems of a Christian pilgrim, a mercurial, twenty-first century believer-priest, who characterizes himself, from the outset, as a highly problematic nomad. Poem after poem suggests that, in our postmodern era, one's identity, if ungrounded in the eternal Word, may yield at best either a vanishing semblance of macroscopic reality or its probabilistic trace. That, of course, is the predicament confronted by any compulsive wanderer-a crisis...
Author:
Publisher:
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Description:
A scientific look at zombies-the ultimate guide to how the other half lives (or not) How fast and far would a zombie infection spread? What would a nutritionist say about an all-brain diet? Why are the undead so pissed off? Here are the answers to all of your essential zombie questions (you know you've asked them), with a lively, science-based exploration of every aspect of the undead. - First book to examine the possible science of our undead brethren,...
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Publisher:
Ig Publishing
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
Winnie Parker, mother to an angst-ridden teenage daughter and ex-wife to a successful game show host who left her for a twenty-something contestant, begins a normal day in her hum-drum existence by dropping her car off at the repair shop. After accepting what she believes is a ride to pick up her rental car, Winnie realizes too late that she's been kidnapped. What follows is a riveting psychological game of cat and mouse set in the kidnapper's tropically...
Author:
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
Page Four asks: Which Palm Springs party girl has been caught canoodling with an out-of-town "Adam"? Eve Caruso keeps her finger on the pulse of Palm Springs and reports every spicy celebrity tidbit to her loyal readers. She knows everyone in this town-except that mysterious hunk who just strolled into the exclusive spa where she's conferring with hot new starlet Jemima Cargill. Nash Cargill-nicknamed "The Preacher" by all his rowdy friends-is here...
Author:
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
When Agatha Griffin finds a colony of bees in her warehouse, it's the not-so-perfect ending to a not-so-perfect week. Busy trying to keep her printing business afloat amidst rising taxes and the suppression of radical printers like her son, the last thing the widow wants is to be the victim of a thousand bees. But when a beautiful beekeeper arrives to take care of the pests, Agatha may be in danger of being stung by something far more dangerous…...
Author:
Publisher:
HarperAudio
Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
English
Description:
In her most provocative book yet, Dr. Laura urgently reminds women that to take proper care of their husbands is to ensure themselves the happiness and satisfaction they yearn for in marriage. Women want to be in love, get married, and live happily ever after. Yet disrespect for men and disregard for the value, feelings, and needs of husbands has fast become the standard for male-female relations in America. Those two attitudes clash in unfortunate...
Author:
Publisher:
HarperAudio
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
Description:
The long-awaited follow-up to her groundbreaking bestseller, now Dr. Laura focuses on how men and women need to understand and appreciate the uniqueness of masculinity and femininity; what the best ways to relate, caretake, and nurture each other are; and how to bring a marriage back from the brink of disaster. Jumping off her million-copy bestseller The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura asserts that in order to produce and sustain a...