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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages

by Phyllis Rose

Published: 1984-10-12

Paperback: 318 pages

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In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.

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Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger's

by Tim Page

Published: 2009-09-08

Hardcover: 208 pages

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An affecting memoir of life as a boy who didn?t know he had Asperger's syndrome until he became a man. In 1997, Tim Page won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his work as the chief classical music critic of The Washington Post, work that the Pulitzer board called ?lucid and illuminating...

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Paranormalcy

by Kiersten White

Published: 2011-07-26

Paperback: 368 pages

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Evie’s always thought of herself as a normal teenager, even though she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, she’s falling for a shape-shifter, and she’s the only one who can see through glamours.But now Evie’s dreams are filled with haunting voices and cryptic...

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Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there

by Richard Wiseman

Published: 2011-08-17

Paperback: 198 pages

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Professor Richard Wiseman is clear about one thing: paranormal phenomena don't exist. But in the same way that the science of space travel transforms our everyday lives, so research into telepathy, fortune-telling and out-of-body experiences produces remarkable insights into our brains, behaviour and...

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ParaNorman: A Novel

by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, LAIKA

Published: 2012-06-05

Hardcover: 256 pages

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In a quaint New England town with a history of witches and pilgrims, misunderstood eleven-year-old Norman Babcock can see and talk to ghosts. No one believes him, of course-everyone just thinks he's weird (including his parents). But when a folktale of a witch who cursed her accusers turns...

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Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

by Carl Zimmer

Published: 2001-11-09

Paperback: 320 pages

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IN THIS REISSUED PAPERBACK EDITION WITH A NEW EPILOGUE, CARL ZIMMER REVEALS THE POWER, DANGER, AND BEAUTY OF PARASITES.For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and the darkest shadows of science. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer takes readers on a fantastic voyage in...

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A Parchment of Leaves (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Silas House

Published: 2003-08-26

Paperback: 289 pages

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It is the early 1900s in rural Kentucky, and young Saul Sullivan is heading up to Redbud Camp to look for work. He is wary but unafraid of the Cherokee girl there whose beauty is said to cause the death of all men who see her. But the minute Saul lays eyes on Vine, he knows she is meant to...

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Published: 2004-01

Hardcover: 0 pages

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Parents Behaving Badly

by Scott Gummer

Published: 2011-04-12

Hardcover: 224 pages

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An uproarious, surprising, and poignant satire of American suburbia and youth sports gone wild.

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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

by Margaret MacMillan, Richard Holbrooke

Published: 2002-10-29

Hardcover: 608 pages

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In this landmark work of narrative history, MacMillan brings extraordinary personalities to life. The great-granddaughter of Lloyd George, she makes use of his personal papers and gives a scintillating view of those dramatic and fateful days when much of the modern world was sketched out, when countries--Iraq,...