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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

Published: 1999-10-19

Paperback: 332 pages

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National Bestseller A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and le...

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Into This World

by Sybil Baker

Published: 2012-05-22

Paperback: 204 pages

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"This fast-paced story of a family secret will keep readers turning pages."—Krys Lee, author of Drifting HouseAllison flies to Seoul to discover the truth about her adopted sister. A tangled history of love and deception reunites two sisters whose fates were shaped by a long-lost love an...

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An Intriguing Life: A Memoir of War, Washington, and Marriage to an American Spymaster

by Cynthia Helms

Published: 2012-12-16

Hardcover: 224 pages

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From wartime England to Nixon's America and beyond, Cynthia Helms was witness to some of the seminal events of our time?Vietnam, Watergate, and especially the demoralization of the CIA in the 1970s for political purposes. Opening with her feminist ?epiphany? in 1968 (the annus horribilus a...

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Intrusions

by Ursula Hegi

Published: 1997-03-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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Intuition

by Allegra Goodman

Published: 2006-02-28

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Hailed as “a writer of uncommon clarity” by the New Yorker, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction, including such beloved bestsellers as The Family Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls. Now she returns with a bracing new novel,...

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The Intuitionist: A Novel

by Colson Whitehead

Published: 2000-01-04

Paperback: 255 pages

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This debut novel by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadIt is a time of calamity in a m...

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An Invasion of (corporate) Locust

by Darlene R. Miles

Published: 2008-01-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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The Invention of Air

by Steven Johnson

Published: 2008-12-26

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts?in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion?the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America's Founding Fathers. The Invention of Air is a book of world-changing ideas wrapped around a com...

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The Invention of Everything Else

by Samantha Hunt

Published: 2008-02-07

Hardcover: 272 pages

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A wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker where Tesla lives out his last days From the moment she first catches sight of the Hotel New Yorkers most famous resident on New Years Day 1943, Louisa -- obsessed...

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Brian Selznick

Published: 2007-01-30

Hardcover: 533 pages

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Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and...