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Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy)

by Naguib Mahfouz

Published: 1990-12-01

Paperback: 512 pages

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Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 1

by Naguib Mahfouz

Published: 2011-11-29

Paperback: 544 pages

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Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.The novels of the Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Ja...

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Pale Demon (The Hollows, Book 9)

by Kim Harrison

Published: 2011-03-01

Hardcover: 448 pages

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Condemned and shunned for black magic, Rachel Morgan has three days to get to the annual witches? conference and clear her name, or be trapped in the demonic ever-after . . . forever after. But a witch, an elf, a living vampire, and a pixy in one car going across the country? Talk about ...

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Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Vladimir Nabokov

Published: 2000-08-31

Paperback: 256 pages

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to being uprooted and politically exiled twice in his life, never found fuller expression than in Pale Fire published in 1962 aft...

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The Pale King

by David Foster Wallace

Published: 2011-04-15

Hardcover: 560 pages

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The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinar...

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The Pale of Settlement: Stories (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)

by Margot Singer

Published: 2007-10-01

Hardcover: 232 pages

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Pale Rose of England

by Sandra Worth

Published: 2011-02-01

Paperback: 450 pages

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From the award-winning author of The King's Daughter comes a story of love and defiance during the War of the Roses. It is 1497. The news of the survival of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, has set royal houses ablaze with intrigue and rocked the fledgling Tudor dynasty. With the suppor...

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Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

by Jimmy Carter

Published: 2007-09-18

Paperback: 288 pages

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PRESIDENT CARTER'S COURAGEOUS ASSESSMENT OF WHAT MUST BE DONE TO BRING PERMANENT PEACE TO ISRAEL WITH DIGNITY AND JUSTICE TO PALESTINEThe crowning achievement of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, and he has continued his public a...

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Palimpsest: A Memoir

by Gore Vidal

Published: 1996-09-01

Paperback: 448 pages

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This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal's compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author's celebrated life, from his birth in 1925 to today, and features a cast of memorable characters--including...

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Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)

by Samuel Richardson

Published: 2008-08-01

Paperback: 592 pages

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One of the most spectacular successes of the flourishing literary marketplace of eighteenth-century London, Pamela also marked a defining moment in the emergence of the modern novel. In the words of one contemporary, it divided the world "into two different Parties, Pamelists and Anti-pam...