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Barb’s favorite books

Absolute Power by David Baldacci Giada's Family Dinners by Giada De Laurentiis Everyday Italian by Giada De Laurentiis Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Shipping News by Annie Proulx The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer Everyday Food by Martha Stewart Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
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by Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Book Club, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Cooking, Fantasy, Fiction, Food, Historical fiction, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Politics, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller, and Women's Fiction


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