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Tropic of Capricorn

by Henry Miller

Published: 2007-12-01

Kindle Edition: 352 pages

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Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn’s ethnic neighborhoods and Miller’s outrageous sexual ex...

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J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (Movie Tie-in): The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Published: 2012-09-25

Mass Market Paperback: 1728 pages

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THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THE EPIC MOTION PICTURES J.R.R. TOLKIEN THE LORD OF THE RINGS THE HOBBIT THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING THE TWO TOWERS THE RETURN OF THE KING © New Line Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and the names of the characters, items, e...

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After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead

by Alan S. Blinder

Published: 2013-01-24

Hardcover: 496 pages

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One of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers offers a masterful narrative of the crisis and its lessons Many fine books on the financial crisis were first drafts of history?books written to fill the need for immediate understanding. Alan S. Blinder, esteemed Prince...

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Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

by Peter Baker

Published: 2013-10-22

Hardcover: 816 pages

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In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency.Theirs was the most capt...

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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

by Christopher Clark

Published: 2013-03-19

Hardcover: 736 pages

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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the com...

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The Gods of Guilt (Lincoln Lawyer)

by Michael Connelly

Published: 2013-12-02

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Defense attorney Mickey Haller returns with a haunting case in the gripping new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have...

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Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting

Published: 2013-11-11

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A collection of poignant essays about the transformative power of knitting by twenty-seven extraordinary writers.“The impressive collection of writers here have contributed essays that celebrate knitting and knitters. They share their knitting triumphs and disasters as well as their life...

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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Vintage)

by Lawrence Wright

Published: 2013-11-05

Paperback: 560 pages

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The Basis For The New HBO Documentary. A National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.   Scientology presents itself as a scientific approach to spiritual enlightenment, but its practices have long been shrouded in mystery. Now Lawrence Wright—armed with his inve...

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MOBY DICK (illustrated, complete, and unabridged 160th Anniversary Edition)

by Herman Melville

Published: 2016-11-01

Hardcover: 768 pages

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Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginative literary creation.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clo...

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Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Published: 2003-02-25

Paperback: 1072 pages

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Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, these exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray—he tilts at windmills, i...