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An Imperfect Lens : A Novel

by Anne Roiphe

Published: 2006-01-24

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Acclaimed author Anne Roiphe evokes the sights and sounds of 1880s Alexandria, Egypt, a bustling center of trade and travel. From teeming docks to overflowing market stalls, from grand homes to grimy narrow alleyways, cholera microbes rise and bob in streams of water and tiny droplets, cli...

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An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century

by James Orbinski

Published: 2008-04-04

Hardcover: 448 pages

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National Bestseller?As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor's role is as a witness?to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak out against the horrors of political inaction. . . . The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.? ?Jame...

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Imperfect: An Improbable Life

by Jim Abbott, Tim Brown

Published: 2012-04-03

Hardcover: 304 pages

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On an overcast September day in 1993, Jim Abbott took the mound at Yankee Stadium and threw one of the most dramatic no-hitters in major-league history. The game was the crowning achievement in an unlikely success story, unseen in the annals of professional sports. In Imperfect, the one-ti...

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The Imperfectionists: A Novel

by Tom Rachman

Published: 2011-01-04

Paperback: 304 pages

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One of most acclaimed books of the year, Tom Rachman's debut novel follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters and editors of an English-language newspaper in Rome.

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The Imperfectionists: A Novel

by Tom Rachman

Published: 2010-04-06

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman's wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it?and themselves?afloat.Fifty years and many changes have ens...

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Imperial

by William T. Vollmann

Published: 2009-07-30

Hardcover: 1344 pages

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An epic study of an emblematic American region by one of our most celebrated writersIt sprawls across a stinking artificial sea, across the deserts, date groves, and labor camps of southeastern California, right across the Mexican border. For generations of migrant workers, from Okies flee...

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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War, 1st Edition

by James Bradley

Published: 2009

Hardcover: 221 pages

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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Vintage)

by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Published: 2007-09-04

Paperback: 365 pages

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The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and c...

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Imperial Life in the Emerald City

by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Published: 2006-09-19

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The Green Zone, Baghdad, 2003: in this walled-off compound of swimming pools and luxurious amenities, Paul Bremer and his Coalition Provisional Authority set out to fashion a new, democratic Iraq. Staffed by idealistic aides chosen primarily for their views on issues such as abortion and c...

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Imperial Woman (Buck, Pearl S. Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck, 3rd,)

by Pearl S. Buck

Published: 2004-12-01

Paperback: 376 pages

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Imperial Woman is the fictionalized biography of the last Empress in China, Ci-xi, who began as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing Dynasty until her death in 1908.Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriguing rulers during a time of intense...