Ellen Horan
ISBN:9780061773976
Who killed Dr. Harvey Burdell?
Though there are no witnesses and no clues, fingers point to Emma Cunningham, the refined, pale-skinned widow who managed Burdell's house and his servants. Rumored to be a black-hearted gold digger with designs on the doctor's name and fortune...
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John Curran
ISBN:9780061988370
When Agatha Christie died in 1976, at age eighty-five, she had become the world's most popular author. At the end of 2004, following the death of Christie's daughter...
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Michael C White
ISBN:9780061691225
A breathtaking tale of love, loyalty, and intrigue set in the early days of World War II from the acclaimed author of "Soul Catcher"
World War II seems lost for the beleaguered Soviets as they struggle to hold back the rising German tide at Sevastopol...
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Kristin Swenson
ISBN:9780061728266
Why does the film Magnolia end in a downpour of frogs?
Is the serpent in the Garden of Eden the devil or just a snake?
How do people use the Bible to argue different sides of today's most controversial issues...
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Peter Hessler
ISBN:9780061804106
One of "The Economist"'s Best Books of the Year
From the bestselling author of "Oracle Bones" and "River Town" comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution in China.
Peter Hessler...
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Dani Shapiro
ISBN:9780061628351
Settling into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was this all life was--a hodgepodge of errands...
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John Heilemann
ISBN:9780061733642
In 2008, the presidential election became blockbuster entertainment. Everyone was watching as the race for the White House unfolded like something from the realm of fiction...
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Marina Endicott
ISBN:9780061825903
Shortlisted for Canada's prestigious Giller Prize, this "profoundly humane novel" ("Vancouver Sun"), wrings suspense and humor out of the everyday choices we make...
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Andrew Shaffer
ISBN:9780061969812
Few people have failed at love as spectacularly as the great philosophers. Although we admire their wisdom, history is littered with the romantic failures of the most sensible men and women of every age...
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Oren Rudavsky
ISBN:9780060760854
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Allen Ginsberg
ISBN:9780062015174
Now a Major Motion Picture
First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece--an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the century....
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John Brockman
ISBN:9780062020444
How is the internet changing the way you think? That is one of the dominant questions of our time, one which affects almost every aspect of our life and future. And it's exactly what John Brockman...
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Mari Naomi
ISBN:9780062009234
From her father and mother's interracial marriage to her own "you show me yours, I'll show you mine" moments on the playground--from drug experimentation to sexual/identity questions--MariNaomi lays her inner life bare...
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Emily White
ISBN:9780061765100
Despite having a demanding job, good friends, and a supportive family, Emily White spent many of her evenings and weekends alone at home...
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Paula Byrne
ISBN:9780060881313
Evelyn Waugh was already famous when "Brideshead Revisited" was published in 1945. Written at the height of the war, the novel was, he admitted...
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Jon Glaser
ISBN:9780061749629
A humorous collection of fictional documents from rock music history claim to tell the "true stories" of such famous rock acts as Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones...
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William Boyd
ISBN:9780061876752
One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table...
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James McGrath Morris
ISBN:9780060798703
In nineteenth-century industrial America, while Carnegie provided the steel, Rockefeller the oil, Morgan the money, and Vanderbilt the railroads...
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Ella Leffland
ISBN:9780062015280
"One of those deceptively guileless novels, like A Member of the Wedding and To Kill a Mockingbird, that sees more than it lets on." --New York Times Book Review
"A book of acute insight and delicious humor. . . . Absorbing and poignant and full of difficult truth." --Rosellen Brown...
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Valerie Laken
ISBN:9780060840945
From Valerie Laken, the Pushcart Prize-winning author of "Dream House," comes a powerful collection of short stories charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations...
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Craig Welch
ISBN:9780061537141
A unique blend of natural history and crime drama, "Shell Games "by Craig Welch is a riveting tale of rogues, scoundrels, and the hunt for nature's bounty in the tradition of "The Orchid Thief...
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Sadie Jones
ISBN:9780061929892
Passionate and brilliantly rendered, "Small Wars" questions how honor can exist amid cruelty and asks what becomes of intimacy in the grinding gears of empire.
A major in the British Army...
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Lionel Shriver
ISBN:9780061458590
Shep Knacker has long saved for "the Afterlife," an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wife...
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Dipika Rai
ISBN:9780062000354
The eldest of seven children, born low-caste and female in rural India, Mamta is abused and rejected by a father who can see no reason to "water someone else's garden" until a husband is found for her. Seeking escape in matrimony...
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Michael Talbot
ISBN:9780062014108
Nearly everyone is familiar with holograms--three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Two of the world's most eminent thinkers believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram...
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David Laskin
ISBN:9780061233340
From the author of "The Children's Blizzard" comes an epic story of the sacrifice and service of an immigrant generation.
When the United States entered World War I in 1917...
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Jacqueline Winspear
ISBN:9780061727689
August 1914. As Michael Clifton is mapping land he has just purchased in California's beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, war is declared in Europe--and duty-bound to his father's native country...
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Terry Castle
ISBN:9780061670923
From Terry Castle, the brilliant cultural commentator whom Susan Sontag called "the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today...
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Laura Kasischke
ISBN:9780062004789
"Kasischke's writing does what good poetry does--it shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it . . . The language catapults us into another plane of existence...
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Timothy Ferris
ISBN:9780060781514
In his most powerful book to date, award-winning author Timothy Ferris makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. Ferris shows how science was integral to the American Revolution but misinterpreted in the French Revolution; reflects on the history of liberalism...
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Robert Sullivan
ISBN:9780061710322
A "New York Times" Editors' Choice
Most readers think they know Henry David Thoreau: the solitary curmudgeon with the shack out in the woods. In this delightfully engaging book...
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Blake Butler
ISBN:9780061997426
"Butler is an original force who is fearless with form. . . . an] inventive and deeply promising young author." --"Time Out New York"
" Butler's] sentences. . . twist and evolve...
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Marilyn Johnson
ISBN:9780061431616
Buried in info? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper, disks, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians--they can help
Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot to consider that...
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez
ISBN:9780061706561
wench 'wench n. from Middle English "wenchel," 1 a: a girl, maid, young woman; a female child.
Situated in Ohio, a free territory before the Civil War...
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Steven Pinker
ISBN:9780062011909
How does language work? How do we learn to speak? Why do languages change? Why do they have so many quirks? What does language reveal about the mind?
Steven Pinker explores the mysteries of language in this original and hugely entertaining book...
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Dan Deweese
ISBN:9780061992322
Deweese delivers a witty, heartfelt, and keenly observed debut novel about marriage, fatherhood, and bank robbery....
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Roxana Saberi
ISBN:9780061965296
On the morning of January 31, 2009, Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist working in Iran, was forced from her home by four men and secretly detained in Iran?s notorious Evin Prison. The intelligence agents who captured her accused her of espionage -- a charge she denied. For several days...
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Edna St Vincent Millay
ISBN:9780062015273
Edna St. Vincent Millay, who, in the mid-forties, wrote, ?this age endowed with power/To wake the moon with footsteps? has long been acclaimed for the innovative nature of her thought as expressed in her work -- poetry...
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Jessica Anya Blau
ISBN:9780061984020
It is Thanksgiving, 1993, and Anna, Portia, and Emery?s mother, Louise, has just suffered a massive heart attack. The three children have returned to Santa Barbara...
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Kuan Yew Lee
ISBN:9780060957513
FROM THIRD WORLD TO FIRST is the memoir of Lee Kuan Yew, the man who planted the island state firmly on the map of the world. In little over 30 years since he took over from a colonial government...
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Lisa Miller
ISBN:9780060554767
Eighty percent of Americans say they believe in heaven, but very few of them are able to articulate anything specific about their belief, leaving only questions. Is heaven a real place? Is it a city or a garden or both? Can you keep your body there? If so...
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Angela Balcita
ISBN:9780061537318
At the age of eighteen, Angela Balcita had reached a point in her life when her health could not keep up with her optimistic personality. After suffering kidney failure...
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Laura Brodie
ISBN:9780061706509
After years of watching her eldest daughter, Julia, struggle in a highly regimented public school system, Laura Brodie determined to teach her ten-year-old at home for a year...
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Fariba Nawa
ISBN:9780061934704
When she was just nine years old, Fariba Nawa and her family fled Afghanistan, escaping the Soviet invasion, the last proxy of the Cold War. She settled in the United States and did not return to her homeland until 2000...
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Nikki Giovanni
ISBN:9780060099534
A collection of fifty all-new poems, QUILTING THE BLACK-EYED PEA is quintessential Nikki Giovanni. Edgy, unapologetic, and intimate, Nikki charts new territory in this collection. She turns her pen to nature and the environment...
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Louise Erdrich
ISBN:9780061536106
"Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could." When Irene America discovers that her husband...
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Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
ISBN:9780061993459
The four Gospels that begin the Bible?s New Testament tell the life of Jesus. But each Gospel relates a slightly different version of events. Some stories appear only in one Gospel...
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Justin Taylor
ISBN:9780061881824
As stated by the author, ?The Gospel of Anarchy? is "set in the South in the summer of 1999, and concerns a group of self-styled anarchists who form a religion based on the abandoned diary of a hobo who used to live in a tent in their backyard." With wit...
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Eric Blehm
ISBN:9780061661235
On a moonless night just weeks after September 11, 2001, U.S. Special Forces team DA 574 infiltrates the mountains of southern Afghanistan with a seemingly impossible mission: to foment a tribal revolt and force the Taliban to surrender. Armed solely with the equipment they can carry on their backs...
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Steven Solomon
ISBN:9780060548315
Far more than oil, the control of water wealth throughout history has been pivotal to the rise and decline of great powers, the achievements of civilization...
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