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A Civil Action

by Jonathan Harr

Published: 2011-08-10

Kindle Edition: 514 pages

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This true story of an epic courtroom showdown, where two of the nation's largest corporations were accused of causing the deaths of children from water contamination, was a #1 national bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.   Described as “a page-turner filled...

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Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

Published: 2011-12-06

Paperback: 32 pages

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Sparked by Thoreau s outrage at American slavery and the American-Mexican war, Civil Disobedience is a call for every citizen to value his conscience above his government. Within this 19th century essay, Thoreau explains government of any sort including democracy does not possess more wisdom or justice...

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The Civil War Trilogy: Gods and Generals / The Killer Angels / The Last Full Measure

by Michael Shaara, Jeff Shaara

Published: 1999-04-27

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSbyMICHAEL SHAARA and JEFF SHAARA THE CIVIL WAR TRILOGYGODS AND GENERALSTHE KILLER ANGELSTHE LAST FULL MEASURE?Brilliant does not even begin to describe the Shaara gift.??The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionAuthor Jeff M. Shaara rounds out the Civil War Trilogy sta...

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Civil War Wives

by Carol Berkin

Published: 2009-08-22

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  In these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day.  Thei...

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Civilization: The West and the Rest

by Niall Ferguson

Published: 2011-11-01

Hardcover: 432 pages

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From one of our most renowned historians, Civilization is the definitive history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance-and the "killer applications" that made this improbable ascent possible. The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most impor...

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The Civilized World: A Novel in Stories

by Susi Wyss

Published: 2011-03-29

Paperback: 226 pages

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A glorious literary debut set in Africa about five unforgettable women--two of them haunted by a shared tragedy--whose lives intersect in unexpected and sometimes explosive waysWhen Adjoa leaves Ghana to find work in the Ivory Coast, she hopes that one day she'll return home to open a beau...

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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty :The First of the Acclaimed Series of Erotic Adventures of Sleeping Beauty

by Anne Rice

Published: 1999

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Three volume set. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, The Punishment of Sleeping Beauty and, The Release of Sleeping Beauty. Erotic books, adult theme, mild bondage, vivid description. Hard to find HARD COVER SET.

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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

by A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice

Published: 1999-05-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure. In the traditional folk tale "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, ...

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Clair de Lune: A Novel (P.S.)

by Jetta Carleton

Published: 2012-03-06

Paperback: 276 pages

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An unexpected treasure: A long-lost novel of innocence threatened, by the author of the beloved classic The Moonflower Vine The time: 1941, at the cusp of America's entry into World War II. The place: southwest Missouri, on the edge of the Ozark Mountains. A young single woman named All...

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Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

by Sara Gran

Published: 2012-05-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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“Delicious and addictive.”—Salon.com“The book is beautifully written in a tight, quirky style that distinguishes Gran as one of the more original writers working today.”—Bruce DeSilva, Associated Press“Reads . . . as if David Lynch directed a Raymond Chandler novel.”—CNN...