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Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories (P.S.)

by Ben Fountain

Published: 2007-04-01

Paperback: 229 pages

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Brief Gaudy Hour: A Novel of Anne Boleyn

by Margaret Campbell Barnes

Published: 2008-03-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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The enigmatic Anne Boleyn comes to life in this charming, brilliant portrayal by acclaimed British novelist Margaret Campbell Barnes. The infamous love of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn undertook a rocky journey from innocent courtier to powerful Queen of ...

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The Brief History of the Dead

by Kevin Brockmeier

Published: 2007-01-09

Paperback: 272 pages

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From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this after...

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A Brief History of the Middle East: From Abraham to Arafat

by Christopher Catherwood

Published: 2006-10-17

Paperback: 309 pages

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In The Brief History of the Middle East author Christopher Catherwood attempts to show how our entire world is ultimately shaped by events that have unfolded or have their origin in the Middle East. Catherwood insists that, unless we allow ignorance to blind us?which to a certain extent it...

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A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors

by Antony Blond

Published: 2008-02-05

Paperback: 256 pages

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Quick and accessible introduction to a moment in history. Rome has too often been depicted as a pinnacle of culture and civilization. The same could not be said for its emperors. Examining the private lives of the Caesars from Julius to Nero, Blond shows how they really lived in stark co...

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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes

by Stephen W Hawking

Published: 1988

Hardcover: 198 pages

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Stephen Hawking has earned a reputation as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the uni...

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* * * Informative,
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

by Junot Diaz

Published: 2007-09-06

Hardcover: 340 pages

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This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today. Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and reb...

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Briefcase Moms: 10 Proven Practices to Balance Working Mothers' Lives

by Lisa Martin

Published: 2004-03

Paperback: 196 pages

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Balance Your Life Are you a working mother who wants to find a balance between work, family and personal pursuits? Life coach Lisa Martin shows you how you can. In Briefcase Moms she shares ten powerful practices that have helped hundreds of career-oriented mothers achieve the right balan...

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Bright and Distant Shores: A Novel

by Dominic Smith

Published: 2011-09-13

Paperback: 480 pages

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From the award-winning author of The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre and The Beautiful Miscellaneous comes a sweeping historical novel set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Pacific.In the waning years of the nineteenth century there was a hunger...

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A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.'s Scandalous Coming of Age

by Richard Rayner

Published: 2009-06-23

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A captivating chronicle of how the City of Angels lost its soulLos Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, celebrity scandals, and religious fervor. It was also rife with organized crime, with a mayor in the pocket of the syndicates an...