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The Donegal Woman

by John Throne

Published: 2006-01-07

Paperback: 431 pages

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Less than 100 years ago a form of slavery still persisted in parts of rural Ireland - the hiring fair system. Children as young as seven or eight were sold for fixed periods by their impoverished parents to farmers who worked them to the bone,treating them often as little more than cattle. Often worse....

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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma

by Alex Kotlowitz

Published: 1999-01-19

Paperback: 322 pages

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Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here was more than a bestseller; it was a national event. His beautifully narrated, heartbreaking nonfiction account of two black boys struggling to grow up in a Chicago public housing complex spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, w...

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World War Z: The Art of the Film

by Titan Books

Published: 2013-06-18

Paperback: 160 pages

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World War Z is the eagerly awaited film starring Brad Pitt. The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to annihilate humanity itself.World War...

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World War Z

by Max Brooks

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Nicholas Nickleby (Wordsworth Classics)

by Charles Dickens

Published: 1998-01-05

Paperback: 800 pages

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Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B. Cook Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and firmly established Dickens as a 'literary gentleman'. It has a full supporting cast of delectable characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford...

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Invisible Monsters: A Novel

by Chuck Palahniuk

Published: 1999-09-17

Paperback: 304 pages

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Love, betrayal, petty larceny, and high fashion fuel this deliciously comic novel from the author of Fight Club. She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goe...

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Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

by Noam Chomsky

Published: 2013-01-08

Paperback: 224 pages

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A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkersIn this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the A...

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The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Published: 1987-04-02

Paperback: 410 pages

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Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authorita...

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Empire of the Sun

by J. G. Ballard

Published: 2005-03-07

Paperback: 279 pages

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The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg’s film, tells of a young boy’s struggle to survive World War II in China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him.Shanghai, 1...

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Sense & Sensibility

by Joanna Trollope

Published: 2013-10-29

Hardcover: 368 pages

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From Joanna Trollope, one of the most insightful chroniclers of family life writing fiction today, comes a contemporary retelling of Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen’s classic novel of love, money, and two very different sisters.John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would tak...