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Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel

by Sena Jeter Naslund

Published: 2000-10-01

Paperback: 688 pages

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From the opening line--"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"--you will know that you are in the hands of a masterful storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Melville's Moby-Dick, where Captain Ahab speaks passionately of ...

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Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel (P.S.)

by Sena Jeter Naslund

Published: 2005-08-02

Paperback: 668 pages

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From the opening line—"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"—you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an enthralling and comp...

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Ain't She Sweet? (Avon Romance)

by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Published: 2005-02-01

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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Sugar Beth Carey's come back to Parrish, Mississippi, and she's brought her reputation for wreaking havoc with her. She's broke, desperate, and too proud to show it, even with her old enemies lining up for a chance to get even. Her former girlfriends have their eyebrow pencils sharpened in...

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The Air Between Us: A Novel

by Deborah Johnson

Published: 2009-04-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Revere, Mississippi, with its population of "20,000 and sinking," is not unlike most Southern towns in the 1960s. Blacks live on one side of town and whites on the other. The two rarely mix. Or so everyone believes. But the truth is brought to the forefront when Critter, who is only ten, ...

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The Air We Breathe: A Novel

by Andrea Barrett

Published: 2007-10-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

by Henry Miller

Published: 1970-10-01

Paperback: 292 pages

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His stories and essays celebrate those rare individuals (famous and obscure) whose creative resilience and mere existence oppose the mechanization of minds and souls. In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his na...

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Airframe

by Michael Crichton

Published: 1999-03

Hardcover: 0 pages

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Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . .At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airlin...

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Airframe: A Novel

by Michael Crichton

Published: 2011-03-22

Paperback: 448 pages

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From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes this extraordinary thriller about airline safety, business intrigue, and a deadly cover-up.   #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   “The pacing is fast, the suspense nonstop.”—People   At a moment when the issue of safety and d...

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Airs Above the Ground

by Mary Stewart

Published: 2004-12-01

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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Vanessa March never thought to look for her missing husband in Vienna -- until she saw him in a newsreel shot there at the scene of a deadly fire. But her hunt for answers only leads to more sinister questions in a mysterious world of beautiful horses. And what waits for Vanessa in the sha...

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Ajax in Action

by Dave Crane, Eric Pascarello, Darren James

Published: 2005-10-01

Paperback: 680 pages

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Web users are getting tired of the traditional web experience. They get frustrated losing their scroll position; they get annoyed waiting for refresh; they struggle to reorient themselves on every new page. And the list goes on. With asynchronous JavaScript and XML, known as "Ajax," you ca...