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Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy
by Peter Canellos
Published 2009 by Simon & Schuster

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Jacket Notes:
The complete biography of one of the most powerful men in American politics--Ted Kennedy--and his personal redemption from the disappointing member of a grand dynasty to a sage in the Senate and the patriarch of a broken family. No figure in American public life has had such great expectations thrust upon him, or has responded so poorly.... More...

Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy

The Grand Finale
by Janet Evanovich
Published 2009 by Harperluxe

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From the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author comes a revised, repackaged novel sure to please her many fans. She writes "high speed comic mayhem" ("Detroit Free Press"); she's "a blast of fresh air" ("Washington Post"); "side-splitting funny" ("Publishers Weekly") and "a winner" ("Glamour").... More...

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Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl
by Stacey O'Brien
Published 2008 by Free Press

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Written with the same heartwarming sentiment that made the memoir "Marley & Me" a runaway bestseller, biologist and owl expert O'Brien chronicles her rescue of an adorable, abandoned baby barn owl--and their astonishing and unprecedented 19-year life together.... More...

Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

Execution Dock
by Anne Perry
Published 2009 by Ballantine Books

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From the bestselling author of "Buckingham Palace Gardens" and "Dark Assassin" comes a deftly plotted Victorian crime novel featuring the long-awaited return of police superintendent William Monk. Readers of Anne Perry's bestselling William Monk novels feel as if they've experienced the many shades of Victorian London, from Belgravia to Limehouse, from drawing room to brothel.... More...

Execution Dock