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The Big Nap (Mommy-track)

by Ayelet Waldman

Published: 2002-07-02

Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages

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When her son's Chasidic babysitter vanishes, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum travels from her havoc-filled home in Los Angeles to a Chasidic enclave in Brooklyn. In search of answers. In pursuit of justice. And in desperate need of a big, long nap. "Waldman is a...

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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

by Rose George

Published: 2008-10-14

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Big Numbers

by Jack Getze

Published: 2007-03-01

Paperback: 204 pages

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Who is killing Austin Carr? About to be murdered--snatched off a private fishing yacht by a six-hundred-pound giant bluefin tuna--a down-on-his-luck stockbroker recalls the collection of events, miscalculations, and character flaws that led to his current dire predicament: Living in a truck-mounted camper...

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The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime

by Jasper Fforde

Published: 2006-07-25

Paperback: 383 pages

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Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In The Big Over Easy, Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Meet Inspector Jack ...

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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

by Mark Kurlansky

Published: 2007-01-09

Paperback: 336 pages

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“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”–The New York Times “A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster.”–Rocky Mountain NewsAward-winning author Mark...

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Big Red Tequila

by Rick Riordan

Published: 1997-06-02

Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series  Everything in Texas is bigger...even murder. Meet Tres Navarre...tequila drinker, Tai Chi master, unlicensed P.I., with a penchant for Texas-size trouble. Jackson "Tres" Navarre and his enchil...

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BIG RED TEQUILA [UNABRIDGED]

by Rick Riordan

Published: 2001

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Everything in Texas is bigger...even murder. Jackson "Tres" Navarre and his enchilada-eating cat, Robert Johnson, pull into San Antonio and find nothing waiting but trouble. Ten years ago Navarre left town and the memory of his father's murder behind him. Now he's back, looking for answers. Yet the...

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The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes

by Bryan Burrough

Published: 2009-01-27

Hardcover: 480 pages

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In The Big Rich, bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough chronicles the rise and fall of one of the great economic and political powerhouses of the twentieth century?Texas oil. By weaving together the epic sagas of the industry's four greatest fortunes, Burr...

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by Bryan Burrough

Published: 2009

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Best-selling author Bryan Burrough reveals how four Texas oil tycoons transformed America. Rising from humble beginnings through hard work and shrewd dealings, they shifted the balance of power in American politics. While hobnobbing with movie stars and presidents, the Big Rich also created the legend...

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The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

by Earl Swift

Published: 2011-06-09

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From author Earl Swift comes the surprising history of the U.S. interstate system, a fascinating route through the dreams, discoveries, and protests that shaped these mighty roads. A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibilit...