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9781519553188 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 2, 2015, cover price $14.99

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Product Description: It's not easy being the Godfather. All those secrets and all that guilt add up to a terrible burden--a weight that's killing Vincente Delgatto. When the old man travels to Key West for a visit with his illegitimate son--Joey Goldman, the unlikely hero of FLORIDA STRAITS--Joey floats the idea of a conscience-easing memoir, to be written in collaboration with a local reporter...read more

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9781508661238 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 3, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: It's not easy being the Godfather.
9780595006380 | Backinprint.Com, September 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: When Joey Goldman's illegitimate father, a nefarious godfather from New York, heads to Key West, Joey has the bright idea of letting a Kew West reporter help write his memoirs, a book that no onethe Mafia, the FBI, or the real heir to Delgatto's family businesswants to see published.

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Product Description: In the lyrical yet tough-minded tradition of Thoreau, this prescient and impassioned volume, written by a former Ethics columnist for Esquire magazine, examines the myths and follies of a culture that celebrates greed and defines success solely in terms of wealth...read more

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9780812916560 | Timeless Books, May 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Starting with the premise that America is as rich as it is going to get, the author argues that it is time to redefine success in other than material terms

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9781508581000 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 28, 2015, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: In the lyrical yet tough-minded tradition of Thoreau, this prescient and impassioned volume, written by a former Ethics columnist for Esquire magazine, examines the myths and follies of a culture that celebrates greed and defines success solely in terms of wealth.
9780679733287 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 1, 1991), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: In the lyrical yet tough-minded tradition of Thoreau, this prescient and impassioned volume, written by a former Ethics columnist for Esquire magazine, examines the myths and follies of a culture that celebrates greed and defines success solely in terms of wealth.

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Product Description: “Unlike most books on business…this baby sings.” That was the judgment of The New York Daily News in regard to this remarkable volume that entertains on every page while providing rare insights into the methods and secret workings of the Harvard Business School...read more

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9781508550594 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 25, 2015, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: “Unlike most books on business…this baby sings.
9780595219506 | Backinprint.Com, March 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 1949 was a pivotal moment of economic dominance; the MBA was still exotic, arcane, and swaggeringly potent.
9780451625571 | Reprint edition (Mentor Books, May 1, 1987), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: Chronicles and celebrates the unusual success story of Harvard Business School's class of 1949, which includes more corporate presidents, policymakers, CEO's, and millionaires than any other comparable group

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Product Description: Meet Pete Amsterdam, the world's most reluctant sleuth. Naked in his hot tub, Pete is idly reviewing his morning tennis game when trouble arrives in the form of the inevitable blonde. This being Key West, the blonde is not quite what she seems, and it's useless to explain to her that he's not a real detective--that, in fact, he got his P...read more

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9780375502538 | Villard Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Peter Amsterdam, 'the world's most reluctant sleuth,' recalls how he was drawn into the detective business by a beautiful blond woman with a very troubled past.

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9781508476023 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 17, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Meet Pete Amsterdam, the world's most reluctant sleuth.
9780345432193 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, May 1, 2001), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Peter Amsterdam, 'the world's most reluctant sleuth,' recalls how he was drawn into the detective business by a beautiful blond woman with a very troubled past.

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9780788743627, titled "Naked Detective" | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, March 1, 2001), cover price $43.00 | About this edition: Meet Pete Amsterdam, the world's most reluctant sleuth.

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Product Description: Now and then, a novel turns out to be prophetic—and no one is more surprised than the author. When I wrote MONEY TALKS back in 2007, neither I nor anyone else imagined that the White House would soon be occupied by a man who bears such a striking and in fact uncanny resemblance to my villain, Robert Maxx...read more

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9781508417507 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 17, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Now and then, a novel turns out to be prophetic—and no one is more surprised than the author.

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A mystery set in tropical Key West, Florida, features a hapless bed-and-breakfast owner whose girlfriend disappears in tandem with the murder of a Russian playboy

Hardcover:

9780786863013 | Hyperion Books, March 1, 1998, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: A mystery set in tropical Key West, Florida, features a hapless bed-and-breakfast owner whose girlfriend disappears in tandem with the murder of a Russian playboy

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9781508435464 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 16, 2015, cover price $14.99
9780786889457 | Hyperion, June 1, 1999, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Key West seduces people--then asks them to leave in the morning.
9780345433060 | Ballantine Books, May 1, 1999, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A mystery set in tropical Key West, Florida, features a hapless bed-and-breakfast owner whose girlfriend disappears in tandem with the murder of a Russian playboy

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559274852 | Abridged edition (Macmillan Audio, March 1, 1998), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A hapless Key West, Florida, bed-and-breakfast owner's girlfriend disappears in tandem with the murder of a Russian playboy.

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Product Description: "The Key West locale was so real I felt my hair frizz.”—The Los Angeles Times For friendly, easygoing furniture salesman Al Tuschman, frizzy hair is the least of his problems. Before he'd left New Jersey for a week's vacation in Key West, he hadn't an enemy in the world...read more

Hardcover:

9780676586596 | Villard Books, April 27, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Before mild-mannered furniture salesman Al Tuschman left New Jersey for a week in Key West, he hadn't an enemy in the world.

Paperback:

9781508475651 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 16, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: "The Key West locale was so real I felt my hair frizz.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780736646901 | Unabridged edition (Books on Tape, April 1, 2000), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A case of mistaken identity threatens to ruin the Florida vacations of a furniture salesman from New Jersey and a mobster from New York.

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Product Description: Which is more powerful: romance or revenge? Mafia princess Angelina Amaro has only ever loved one man--and even that lone affair was never consummated. Why not? Because her would-be lover, Sal Martucci, fled into the Witness Protection Program after ratting out Big Paul, Angelina's father...read more

Hardcover:

9781574900842 | Large print edition (Thomas t Beeler, August 1, 1997), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Ex-mobster Sal Martucci abandons the Federal Witness Protection Program and heads to Key West, where his comfortable life as a bartender and small-time racketeer comes to an end when a mafioso's daughter discovers his identity

Paperback:

9781508432029 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 15, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Which is more powerful: romance or revenge?

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9781559274159 | Macmillan Audio, March 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Ex-mobster Sal Martucci abandons the Federal Witness Protection Program and heads to Key West, where his comfortable life as a bartender and small-time racketeer comes to an end when a mafioso's daughter discovers his identity.

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Product Description: "In this business, nothing is as good as dead..." The business in question is the high-end art world, and everyone in this darkly comedic mystery wants a piece of it. When painter Augie Silver is lost at sea in a sailing accident, his many friends among Key West's artists, writers, and hangers-on mourn--until, that is, they realize that Augie's death has sent the prices for his pictures skyrocketing...read more

Hardcover:

9780671864934 | Simon & Schuster, February 1, 1994, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Presumed dead after a boating accident, Key West artist Augie Silver suddenly returns, angering the owners of original Augie Silver paintings who were prepared to profit from his demise

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9781508409151 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 14, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: "In this business, nothing is as good as dead.
9780440217978 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, April 1, 1995), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Presumed dead after a boating accident, Key West artist Augie Silver suddenly returns, angering the owners of original Augie Silver paintings who were prepared to profit from his demise

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Product Description: "As enjoyable as a day at the beach." That's how USA TODAY summed up this hilarious and big-hearted romp in the Florida sunshine. When Murray Zemelman, a.k.a. The Bra King, pops another Prozac and heads to the Keys, he has nothing much in mind beyond a quixotic hope of winning back his first wife, Franny, whom he dumped years before...read more

Hardcover:

9780786861095 | Hyperion Books, March 1, 1996, cover price $21.45 | About this edition: A pill-popping lingerie businessman, Murray Zemelman leaves his 'boring' life in New Jersey to go to Key West, where he and his Native American friend find themselves fighting to save their money, lives, and new business--Key West's first legal gambling parlor--from a local mafioso

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9781508418566 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 14, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: "As enjoyable as a day at the beach.
9780595006397 | Backinprint.Com, August 1, 2000, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Key West may very well get its first legal gambling parlor if Murray Zemelman, a.
9780786889099 | Grand Central Pub, March 1, 1997, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Pill-popping lingerie businessman Murray Zemelman leaves his 'boring' life in New Jersey to go to Key West, where he and his Native American friend find themselves fighting to save their money, lives, and new business--Key West's first legal gambling parlor--from a local mafioso

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9781559273725 | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, March 1, 1996), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Murray Zemelman leaves his life in New Jersey to go to Key West, where he and his Native American friend find themselves fighting to save their money, lives, and new business--Key West's first legal gambling parlor--from a local mafioso.

Leaving a low-level Mafia job for a life on Key West, Joey Goldman is caught up in the world of the mob again when his half-brother, Gino, shows up on his doorstep

Hardcover:

9780671749330 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Leaving a low-level Mafia job for a life on Key West, Joey Goldman is caught up in the world of the mob again when his half-brother, Gino, shows up on his doorstep

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9781508405054 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 12, 2015, cover price $14.99

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Nutritional problems faced in the developed countries have changed radically since the first edition of this classic book appeared over 30 years ago. The editors, helped by an multidisciplinary team of contributors, have written a textbook for today's clinicians and nutritionists and the everyday problems they face...contains a vast amount of information on human nutrition...very readable and concise...it will definitely have a prominent place on our bookshelves." Journal of Human Nutrition"

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9781507815595 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 1, 2015, cover price $14.99
9780443041211, titled "Human Nutrition and Dietetics" | 9th edition (Churchill Livingstone, December 1, 1993), cover price $77.00 | also contains Human Nutrition and Dietetics | About this edition: Nutritional problems faced in the developed countries have changed radically since the first edition of this classic book appeared over 30 years ago.

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Product Description: Wanted: NY apartment in exchange for a great Key West house with swimming pool. In February. Who wouldn’t take a swap like that? Then again, if a deal seems too good to be true, it probably is, as Meg and Peter Kaplan soon discover...read more

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9781507815403 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 1, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Wanted: NY apartment in exchange for a great Key West house with swimming pool.
9781503273689 | Createspace Independent Pub, December 5, 2014, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Wanted: NY apartment in exchange for a great Key West house with swimming pool.

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Product Description: Three love stories. Two worlds. Six characters trying bravely, if not always wisely, to make their romantic destinies come out right—if not in this lifetime, well, maybe in the next. Set partly in Santa Barbara, CA and its nearby wine country, and partly in a mysterious yet strangely believable version of the Afterlife, this big-hearted and redemptive novel employs a light touch in treating serious themes of family damage, second chances, and forgiveness...read more

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9781505970975 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 21, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Three love stories.

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Product Description: Take three speedboats, a disgruntled ghostwriter, and a hit TV show starring a gorgeous but impossible diva and created by a driven genius who may be losing his marbles. Add a fearless and gleefully profane stuntwoman, an ancient Mafioso with a chihuahua, and a revenge-crazed blonde in gladiator sandals...read more

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9781491241455 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 22, 2013, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Take three speedboats, a disgruntled ghostwriter, and a hit TV show starring a gorgeous but impossible diva and created by a driven genius who may be losing his marbles.

A frank and whimsical analysis of obesity by a political activist and Washington lobbyist describes how his seemingly disparate goals of becoming thin and happy converged, in a personal account that offers a man's perspective on the challenges of being overweight while also sharing his wife's thoughts about how men's weight issues affect their partners. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9781594862779 | Rodale Pr, March 7, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A self-proclaimed overweight businessman documents his pursuit of losing weight and finding personal happiness, explaining how he achieved peace of mind by treating his weight as a medical issue, rather than a moral failing.

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9781594866425 | Reprint edition (Rodale Pr, March 20, 2007), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A frank and whimsical analysis of obesity by a political activist and Washington lobbyist describes how his seemingly disparate goals of becoming thin and happy converged, in a personal account that offers a man's perspective on the challenges of being overweight while also sharing his wife's thoughts about how men's weight issues affect their partners.

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The late founder of Liberty Media chronicles his life as a baby boomer, from his protests against the Vietnam War and his jam sessions with Sha Na Na through his work as a political consultant and businessman to his battle with cancer. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781579546885 | Rodale Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the life of the founder of Liberty Media, from his protests against the Vietnam War and his jam sessions with Sha Na Na through his work as a political consultant and businessman and his battle against cancer.

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9780060737313 | Reprint edition (Perennial, September 1, 2004), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Chronicles the life of the founder of Liberty Media, from his protests against the Vietnam War and his jam sessions with Sha Na Na through his work as a political consultant and businessman and his battle against cancer.
9780072374704, titled "Insights into Calculus Using TI Calculators: 83 Plus, 86, 89, 92, 92 Plus for Use With Calculus : Premiere" | McGraw-Hill College, July 1, 2000, cover price $39.45 | also contains Insights into Calculus Using TI Calculators: 83 Plus, 86, 89, 92, 92 Plus for Use With Calculus : Premiere

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Product Description: What’s in a license plate? Plenty, if the tag reads BIG AL. In this “wickedly inventive” (Los Angeles Times) and “darkly comic tale” (People), mild mannered Al Tuschman, a salesman from New Jersey, is mistaken for Al Marracotta, a major New York mobster with some very nasty enemies—enemies who hire a pair of bumbling hitmen to turn the paradise of Big Al’s Key West vacation into a living hell...read more

Hardcover:

9780375502521 | Villard Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A case of mistaken identity threatens to ruin the Florida vacations of a furniture salesman from New Jersey and a mobster from New York

Paperback:

9780595469147 | Iuniverse Inc, September 26, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: What’s in a license plate?
9780345432186 | Fawcett Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A case of mistaken identity threatens to ruin the Florida vacations of a furniture salesman from New Jersey and a mobster from New York.

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Desperately in love with Sal Martucci, the man who betrayed her father and is currently in hiding, Angelina Amaro sets out to find her beloved with the help of a virtuous young gay man, but, unbeknownst to her, her father is aware of her plans, and Sal's friends are plotting to use her as a pawn. Reprint. AB.

Hardcover:

9780786862030 | Hyperion Books, March 1, 1997, cover price $21.45 | About this edition: Ex-mobster Sal Martucci abandons the Federal Witness Protection Program and heads to Key West, where his comfortable life as a bartender and small-time racketeer comes to an end when a mafioso's daughter discovers his identity

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9780786889273 | Hyperion, March 1, 1998, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Ex-mobster Sal Martucci abandons the Federal Witness Protection Program and heads to Key West, where his comfortable life as a bartender and small-time racketeer comes to an end when a mafioso's daughter discovers his identity

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The cast of the author's novel Florida Straights returns in a funny, witty thriller featuring an aging Mafia don who visits his illegitimate, half-Jewish son and turns Key West upside down. Reprint. AB. K.

Hardcover:

9780786860685 | Hyperion Books, January 1, 1995, cover price $21.45 | About this edition: Joey Goldman, the illegitimate son of the Godfather, turns to his friend, reporter Arty Magnus, for help when his father decides to retire and needs a ghost writer to help him write his memoirs, but there are many enemies out to stop the project

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9780786889037 | Hyperion, January 1, 1996, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Joey Goldman, the illegitimate son of the Godfather, turns to his friend, reporter Arty Magnus, for help when his father decides to retire and needs a ghost writer to help him write his memoirs, but there are many enemies out to stop the project

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In Key West for the summer, New York wiseguy Joey Goldman teams up with his half-brother, Gino--who is on the lam from the mob--and foolishly agrees to be the fall guy in Gino's latest scheme. Reprint. NYT.

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9780440215110 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, July 1, 1993), cover price $6.50 | also contains Awesome Paper Projects You Can Create | About this edition: In Key West for the summer, New York wiseguy Joey Goldman teams up with his half-brother, Gino--who is on the lam from the mob--and foolishly agrees to be the fall guy in Gino's latest scheme.

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Chronicles and celebrates the unusual success story of Harvard Business School's class of 1949, which includes more corporate presidents, policymakers, CEO's, and millionaires than any other comparable group

Hardcover:

9780060152789 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Chronicles and celebrates the unusual success story of Harvard Business School's class of 1949, which includes more corporate presidents, policymakers, CEO's, and millionaires than any other comparable group

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