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  Girls in Trucks

  by Katie Crouch

  Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.) But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she... (more)
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  Audition: A Memoir

  by Barbara Walters

  Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.” And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing heads of state, world leaders, movie stars, criminals, murderers,... (more)
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  Pearls

  by Celia Brayfield

  Catherine Bourton is a woman so beautiful she makes men vulnerable, and renders the sharpest of city dealers innumerate. Monty, Catherine's sister, oozes sexuality with a voice and a talent that brings rock audiences to their knees. But the raw, earthy control of her songs hides a softness and a need for love and intimacy. Princess Ayesha is an international beauty, night-club queen, and entrepreneur. She is... (more)