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Old Songs in a New Cafe: Selected Essays

by Robert James Waller · 1994

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From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays—all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County—a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be.

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1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 192 pages
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