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The Ghosts of Hopewell: Setting the Record Straight in the Lindberg Case

by Jim Fisher

Published: 2006-09-12

Paperback: 240 pages

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In this illustrated examination of the Lindbergh kidnapping case, Jim Fisher seeks to set the record straight regarding Bruno Hauptmann's guilt in "the crime of the century."In February 1935, following a sensational, six-week trial, a jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found German carpenter ...

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Ghosts of Manhattan

by Douglas Brunt

Published: 2012-10-02

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A wryly comic, first-person debut novel offering a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding his soul. It's 2005. Nick Farmer is a thirty-five-y...

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Ghosts of Rosewood Asylum

by Stephen Prosapio

Published: 2011-05-10

Paperback: 294 pages

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Zach Kalusky, host of Sci-D TV's Xavier Paranormal Investigators, is ecstatic when he's given the opportunity to explore the most haunted site in Chicago for a Halloween Special: Rosewood Asylum, a place long made off-limits by the local government, plagued by decades of mysterious fires and unexplained...

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Ghosts on the Red Line

by Peter David Shapiro

Published: 2011-09-14

Paperback: 296 pages

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Passengers report seeing ghosts in Boston's Red Line subway trains. Management consultant Harry West is hired by the MBTA, operator of the Red Line, to investigate. His project turns personal when his ex-wife Alexandra Ben-Tov meets their beloved daughter on the Red Line who looks like the teenager...

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Ghostwalk

by Rebecca Stott

Published: 2008-06-03

Paperback: 368 pages

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In 2002, a Cambridge historian is found dead, floating down the river Cam, a glass prism in her hand, after researching a book about a series of suspicious circumstances surrounding Newton's appointment as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1667. That year, two Fellows died by fall...

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Ghostwritten

by David Mitchell

Published: 2001-10-09

Paperback: 426 pages

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David Mitchell's electrifying debut novel takes readers on a mesmerizing trek across a world of human experience through a series of ingeniously linked narratives. Oblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters-a terrorist in Okinawa, a record-shop clerk in T...

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Giant (Perennial Classics)

by Edna Ferber

Published: 2013-07-30

Kindle Edition: 418 pages

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This sweeping tale captures the essence of Texas on a staggering scale as it chronicles the life and times of cattleman Jordan "Bick" Benedict, his naive young society wife, Leslie, and three generations of land-rich sons. A sensational story of power, love, cattle barons, and oil tycoons,...

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Giant George: Life with the World's Biggest Dog

by Dave Nasser

Published: 2012-04-10

Hardcover: 272 pages

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With his big blue eyes and soulful expression, George was the irresistible runt of the litter. But Dave and Christie Nasser's "baby" ended up being almost five feet tall, seven feet long, and 245 pounds. Eager to play, and boisterous to the point of causing chaos, this big Great Dane was s...

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The Giant, O'Brien: A Novel

by Hilary Mantel

Published: 2007-06-12

Paperback: 192 pages

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New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearLos Angeles Times Best Book of the Year London, 1782: center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. In the midst of it all is the Giant, O'Brien, a freak of nature, a man of song and story who trusts in ...

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Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics)

by Ole Edvart Rolvaag

Published: 1999-08-04

Paperback: 560 pages

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"The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America." — The NationOle Edvart Rølvaag's classic Norweigian-American immigration novel. Giants in the Earth follows a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the ...