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Beggars in Spain: The Original Hugo & Nebula Winning Novella

by Nancy Kress

Published: 2011-10-15

Paperback: 100 pages

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PLEASE NOTE: This is the original novella which won the Hugo and Nebula awards. Leisha Camden is a genetically engineered 'Sleepless.' Her ability to stay awake all the time has not only made her more productive, but the genetic modifications have also given the 'Sleepless' a higher IQ and may even make...

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The Beggar's Opera

by Peggy Blair

Published: 2013-02-26

Paperback: 352 pages

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IN BEAUTIFUL, CRUMBLING OLD Havana, detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will save his troubled marriage. He doesn?t yet know that it's dead in the water, much like the little Cuban boy last seen begging the couple for a few pesos on the world famous Malecón. For Inspector Ricardo ...

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Begging for Change: The Dollars and Sense of Making Nonprofits Responsive, Efficient, and Rewarding for All

by Robert Egger

Published: 2004-02

Hardcover: 240 pages

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You are a good person. You are one of the 84 million Americans who volunteer with a charity. You are part of a national donor pool that contributes nearly $200 billion to good causes every year. But you wonder: Why don't your efforts seem to make a difference?Fifteen years ago, Robert Egg...

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The Beginner's Goodbye

by Anne Tyler

Published: 2012-04-03

Kindle Edition: 208 pages

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Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel about loss and recovery, pierced throughout with her humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles.   Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron grew up fending off a sister ...

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Beginner's Greek: A Novel

by James Collins

Published: 2008-01-09

Hardcover: 448 pages

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When Peter Russell finally meets the woman of his dreams he falls as madly in love as you can on a flight from New York to LA. Her name is Holly. She's achingly pretty with strawberry-blonde hair, and reads Thomas Mann for pleasure. She gives Peter her phone number on a page of The Magic ...

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A Beginner's Guide to Acting English

by Shappi Khorsandi

Published: 2009-07-01

Paperback: 312 pages

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In the tradition of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love and Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, comes a story of a young narrator in the midst of her eccentric family. But rather than landed gentry or bohemian travelers, it's a mad extended Iran clan who flee Tehran to 1980s Brit...

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Beginner's Luck: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Laura Pedersen

Published: 2003-01-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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The Beginning of After

by Jennifer Castle

Published: 2011-09-06

Hardcover: 432 pages

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"Anyone who's had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It's all about Before and After. What I'm talking about here is the ka-pow, shake-you-to-your-core-and-turn-your-bones-to-plastic kind of crappy."A 2012 YALSA "Best Fiction for Young Adults" SelectionA 2012 Chicago Publ...

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The Beginning of Sorrows (The Omega Trilogy, Book 1)

by Gilbert Morris, Lynn Morris, Alan Morris

Published: 1999-09-20

Paperback: 444 pages

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Popular, dedicated nature worshiper, Aristide Luca Therion, becomes President of the waning United States of America when President Biship Beckwith dies in a fiery plane crash. Therion implements Project Final Unity, an electrical blackout covertly contrived by the German Union allies and ...

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A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End: The Right Way to Write Writing

by Avi

Published: 2008-04-01

Hardcover: 176 pages

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Avon the snail and Edward the ant are back for another funny--and philosophical--adventure. This time, Avon has decided he wants to be a writer, only to discover that writing is way more difficult than he ever imagined. He finally gets the word Something written down, but there's a problem...