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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

by Diane Ravitch

Published: 2011-11-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, The Death and Life of the Great American School System is a radical change of heart from one of America’s best-known education experts. Diane Ravitch—former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a ...

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Death and Taxes

by David Dodge

Published: 2010-07-22

Paperback: 312 pages

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"Death and Taxes" is the first novel written by David Dodge, who would go on to write some of the finest novels in the mystery genre, including the legendary "To Catch a Thief." Often compared to Dashiell Hammett, Dodge's urbane writing style stands the test of time. His novels are fresh, fast-paced...

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Death and the Jubilee (The Lord Francis Powerscourt)

by David Dickinson

Published: 2008-10-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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Lord Francis Powerscourt must save the life of Queen-Empress Victoria.England, 1897. London is preparing for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, the celebration to mark her sixtieth year as Queen and Empress of a quarter of the surface of the globe. The immense importance of the occasion inevitabl...

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Death and the King's Horseman

by Wole Soyinka

Published: 1987-04

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Elesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favorite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British colonial officer, Pilkings, intervenes. "The action of the play is as inevitable ...

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Death and the Penguin (Melville International Crime)

by Andrey Kurkov

Published: 2011-06-07

Paperback: 240 pages

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A masterful tale set in post-Soviet Kiev that's both darkly-funny and ominous...In the widely hailed prequel to Penguin Lost, aspiring writer Viktor Zolotaryov leads a down-and-out life in poverty-and-violence-wracked Kiev?he's out of work and his only friend is a penguin, Misha, that he r...

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Death and the Penguin (Panther)

by Andrey Kurkov

Published: 2002-02-01

Paperback: 230 pages

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Death at La Fenice

by Donna Leon

Published: 2004-08-01

Paperback: 270 pages

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When renowned opera conductor Helmut Wellauer is found dead in his dressing room, the victim of cyanide poisoning, Guido Brunetti, the Vice Commissario of the Venice Police, must sift through several suspects. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

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Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery

by Donna Leon

Published: 2004-07-27

Paperback: 270 pages

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There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti, the suave, urbane vice-commissario of police and a genius at detection. Now all of h...

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Death at the Priory

by James Ruddick

Published: 2002-09-05

Paperback: 192 pages

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In 1875, the beautiful and vivacious widow Florence Ricardo wedded Charles Bravo, a daring barrister. The marriage seemed a happy one, although society gossips whispered that Bravo had married Florence for her fortune. Yet behind this charming public persona, Charles Bravo was a brutal and vindictive...

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Death Be Not Proud (P.S.)

by John J. Gunther

Published: 2007-04-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This d...