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Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America

by Beryl Satter

Published: 2010-03-02

Paperback: 528 pages

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?Gripping . . . This painstaking portrayal of the human costs of financial racism is the most important book yet written on the black freedom struggle in the urban North.??David Garrow, The Washington PostThe ?promised land? for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became ...

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The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery

by D.T. Max

Published: 2007-09-11

Paperback: 336 pages

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For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a...

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Family Ties

by Danielle Steel

Published: 2011-07-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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Annie Ferguson was one of Manhattan's brightest young architects. But overnight she became mother to her sister's three orphaned children. It wasn't the life she'd planned, but one that rewarded her tenfold for every sacrifice she'd had to make. Now, at forty-two, with a satisfying career and a fulfilling...

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Family Tree

by Barbara Delinsky

Published: 2007-10-30

Paperback: 400 pages

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For as long as she can remember, Dana Clarke has longed for the stability of home and family. Now she has married a man she adores, whose heritage can be traced back to the Mayflower, and she is about to give birth to their first child. But what should be the happiest day of her life becom...

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The Family Tree: A Novel

by Carole Cadwalladr

Published: 2005-11-29

Paperback: 400 pages

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When Rebecca Monroe—married to Alistair, a scientist who doesn’t believe in fate, but rather genetic disposition—discovers that she is pregnant, she begins to question what makes us who we are and whether her own precarious family history will play a role in her future.For Rebecca, t...

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Family Values (Sin City, Book 5: Second Edition)

by Frank Miller

Published: 2005-03-16

Paperback: 128 pages

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Familyhood

by Paul Reiser

Published: 2011-05-10

Hardcover: 256 pages

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For the longest time, based on no evidence other than our own insecurity and sense of incompetence, my wife and I were convinced that we were the flat-out, no-question-about-it, least-skilled parents in the country. Furthermore, we were convinced that every other set of parents we knew was...

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Famous Problems and Other Monographs: Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry/from Determinant to Tensor/Introduction to Combinatory Analysis/Three Lectures on Fermat's Last Theorem

by F. Klein

Published: 1962-06

Hardcover: 321 pages

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Four volumes in one: Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry, by Klein. A fascinating, simple, easily understandable account of the famous problems of Geometry---The Duplication of the Cube, Trisection of the Angle, Squaring of the Circle---and the proofs that these cannot be solved by ...

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Fancy Pants

by Cathy Marie Hake

Published: 2007-09-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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When Britisher Lady Sydney Hathwell's father dies, the American who planned to wed her suddenly reneges. Stranded in America and penniless, Sydney contacts a relative in Texas who, mistaking her male-sounding name, invites his "nephew" to join him on his ranch. "Big Tim" Creighton, however, is appalled...

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Fancy Pants

by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Published: 2005-03-01

Paperback: 512 pages

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THEY'RE CAVIAR AND BEER. KEROSENE ON FIRE. AND THEY'RE FALLING HEAD-OVER-HEELS IN LOVE....She was the most beautiful British bauble in Europe's jet-set playgrounds. Now she's broke, furious, and limping down a backwoods road in an ugly pink Southern Belle gown....He was tall, lean, and all...