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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
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The Glass Castle: a Memoir
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The Zinester's Guide to Portland (2007): A Low/No Budget Guide to Visiting and Living in Portland, Oregon
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The Last Lecture
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Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum Novels)
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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Kim Edwardss stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mothers silent fear: what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver... (read more)
 
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Gardeners throughout the region will be welcoming a thoroughly updated and fresh-looking edition of the bible of Western gardening. With a new, easy-to-read design, more plant photography, larger illustrations, and more than 8,000 plant listings--500 of... (read more)
 
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