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No-Man's Lands: One Man's Odyssey Through The Odyssey

by Scott Huler

Published: 2010-01-05

Paperback: 304 pages

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When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce's Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book's inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus.No-Man's Lands is Huler's...

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No-one Thinks of Greenland

by John Griesemer

Published: 2002

Paperback: 368 pages

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* * * * Fun,
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Today Show Book Club #8)

by Alexander McCall Smith

Published: 2003-12-16

Kindle Edition: 272 pages

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THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 1Fans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma  Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace ...

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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: A No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel (1)

by Alexander Mccall Smith

Published: 2003-12-16

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This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to ?help people with problems in their lives.? Immediately upon setti...

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The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Movie Tie-in Edition)

by Alexander Mccall Smith

Published: 2009-03-31

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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Meet Mma Ramotswe, the endearing, engaging, simply irresistible proprietress of The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, the first and only detective agency in Botswana. With persistent observation, gentle intuition, and a keen desire to help people with the problems of their lives, she solve...

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Noah's Compass

by Anne Tyler

Published: 2010-01-05

Hardcover: 288 pages

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From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, n...

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Noah's Compass: A Novel

by Anne Tyler

Published: 2011-01-25

Paperback: 304 pages

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Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn?t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new and...

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Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History

by William Ryan, Walter Pitman

Published: 2000-01-25

Paperback: 320 pages

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Over the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Now two distinguished geophysicists have discovered a catastrophic event that changed history, a gigantic flood 7,600 years ago in what is t...

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Noble House

by James Clavell

Published: 2009-05-19

Paperback: 1152 pages

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The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial double-dealing and natural catastrophes?fire, flood, landslide. Yet they are days filled as well with all the mystery and romance of Hon...

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A Noble Radiance

by Donna Leon

Published: 2003-08-26

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more than a decade with a series of mysteries featuring clever Commissario Guido Brunetti. Always ready to bend the rules to uncover the threads of a crime, Brunetti manages to maintain his integrity while maneuvering through a city rife ...