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Blue Smoke
by Nora Roberts
2006 Romance Winner
The blaze that night at her family's pizzeria changed young Reena Hale's life in more ways than one. Neighbors and relatives would pull together to help the Hales get through the crisis and rebuild. The Baltimore authorities would arrest the arsonist responsible. But as Reena gazed into the
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Promise Me (Myron Bolitar)
by Harlan Coben
2006 Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Nominee
Sports agent Myron Bolitar returns after a six-year hiatus to star in his eighth thriller.. Myron hears his girlfriend's teenage daughter, Erin, and her friend, Aimee, talking about getting in a car with a drunken driver; hoping to avoid a tragedy, he tells them that he'll pick them up
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The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most...
by Charles Fishman
2006 Business Nominee
Award-winning journalist Charles Fishman reveals that what we know about Wal-Mart isn't even half of the real story-the company is now so powerful that it has become a kind of economic ecosystem that affects our everyday lives, even if we don't shop at Wal-Mart. In contrast to recent
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The Truth (with jokes)
by Al Franken
2006 Humor Nominee
Al Franken's landmark bestseller, Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them'a Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, was praised as a 'bitterly funny assault' (The New York Times) that rang 'with the moral clarity of an angel's trumpet' (Associated Press). Now, this master of political humor
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Blue Dahlia (In The Garden Trilogy #1)
by Nora Roberts
2005 Romance Nominee
A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night' Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along
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Northern Lights
by Nora Roberts
2005 Romance Nominee
Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'd watched his partner die on the street ' and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as Chief of Police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town. Aside from sorting out a run-in between a couple of motor
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Peter and the Starcatchers
by Dave Barry
2005 Children's Chapter Book Nominee
In an evocative and fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island an orphan boy named Peter and his mysterious new friend, Molly, overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil. Bestselling authors Dave
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Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
2005 Business Nominee
John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries around the globe to accept enormous loans that they could not pay back. His true story exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities.
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Disney War
by James B. Stewart
2005 Business Nominee
DisneyWar is the breathtaking, dramatic inside story of what drove America's best-known entertainment company to civil war. With access to both Michael Eisner and Roy Disney, company executives and board members, as well as letters and documents never before seen, James B. Stewart gets to
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Broken For You
by Stephanie Kallos
2005 Debut Author of the Year Nominee
Exuberant, heartbreaking, and alive with a potpourri of eccentric and irresistible characters, this novel explores the saving graces of surrogate families and shows how far the tiniest repair jobs can go in righting the world's wrongs.
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