Chang and Engs bold life in a new country and marriage
Darin Strauss crafts a novelistic portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker, famed 19th century conjoined twins. From Siam to North Carolina, their triumphs, trials, and two intertwined marriages explore identity, fame, and being two people in one life.
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Adelaide
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Newsday Phono
New Audio Book Releases Strong for Potatoes and Black Friday
Two audio books reviewed. Strong for Potatoes by Cynthia Thayer, read by Amanda Karr, features Blue Willoughby weaving baskets and growing into independence with Passamaquoddy ancestry. Black Friday, a Time Warner Audio Books thriller, follows a bomb plot and a Vietnam veteran group with a flawed larger conspiracy.
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Best selling books list from Publishers Weekly
Nations top books across categories including hardcover fiction. Notable titles include The Indwelling by Tim Lahlage and Jerry Jenkins at number one, Cradle and All by James Patterson, Easy Prey by John Sandford, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and Before I Say Goodbye by Mary Higgins Clark. Nonfiction favorites feature Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson, Tuesdays with Morrie, and Flags of Our Fathers. Mass market and trade paperback highlights include Hannibal by Thomas Harris and The Hours by Michael Cunningham.
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Tom Robbins
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Philip Roth
Elizabeth Peters
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Phillip C. McGraw
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Lance Armstrong
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Hannibal
Thomas Harris
Patricia Gaffney
Nora Roberts
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Clive Cussler
Paul Kemprecos
Cuba
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Lake News
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J.A. Jance
Linda Howard
Sue Miller
Melissa Bank
Billie Letts
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Sharon L. Lechter
Gary Zukav
J. Canfield
M.V. Hansen
K Kirberger
Janet Fitch
Joshua Piven
David Borgenicht
Michael Cunningham
Barbara Kingsolver
Don Miguel Ruiz
Jhumpa Lahiri
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