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16 Books to Watch for in June 2011
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16 Books to Watch for in June 2011

Tolstoy and the Purple Chair

By Nina Sankovitch

Publisher: Harper
Pages: 256
Tags: Nonfiction Memoir Self-Improvement
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— Karen Holt

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