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An American Dream: The Life of an African American Soldier and POW Who Spent Twelve Years in Communist China

by Clarence Adams

Published: 2007-06

Paperback: 176 pages

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Throughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning?character traits often equated with the successful pursuit of the American Dream. Unfortunately, for an African American coming of age in the 1930s and 1940s, such attr...

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American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush

by Kevin Phillips

Published: 2004

Hardcover: 397 pages

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A BookPage Notable TitleA former Nixon White House strategist, Phillips details the making of the Bush family dynasty across four generations, documenting how it has exemplified many of the growing trends in American political life and how it has touched all the major "Establishment&q...

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American Eve

by Paula Uruburu

Published: 2009-04-07

Paperback: 400 pages

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The scandalous story of America’s first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity—Evelyn Nesbit.By the time of her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was known to millions as the most photographed woman of her era, an iconic figure who set the standard for female beauty, and...

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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White: The Birth of the

by Paula Uruburu

Published: 2008-05-01

Hardcover: 400 pages

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An American Family

by Peter Lefcourt

Published: 2012-03-25

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The sprawling narrative of five siblings, born in the 1940's, beginning on the day John Kennedy was shot and ending on 9/11. Between these two iconic dates, we follow the fortunes, love affairs, marriages, divorces, successes and failures of the Perls, an immigrant Polish-Jewish family, fr...

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American Fuji

by Sara Backer

Published: 2002-03-05

Paperback: 416 pages

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Gaby Stanton, an American professor living in Japan, has lost her job teaching English at Shizuyama University. (No one will tell her exactly why.) Alex Thorn, an American psychologist, is mourning his son, a Shizuyama exchange student who was killed in an accident. (No one will tell him e...

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American Gangbang

by Sam Benjamin

Published: 2011-10-18

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A thoughtful, hilarious, and compulsively readable memoir by an Ivy League graduate-turned-pornographer who sets out to bring sophistication and equality to sexual cinema?only to find that he can?t change porn, but porn can certainly change him.American Gangbang heralds the arrival of ...

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American Ghost

by Janis Owens

Published: 2012-10-09

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JOLIE HOYT IS A GOOD SOUTHERN GIRL living in Hendrix, a small Florida Panhandle town. The daughter of a Pentecostal preacher who sells insurance on the side, and the best friend of a lively beauty who moves to the big city to pursue a career in interior design, Jolie is all too aware of he...

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American Girls About Town: They're Not Just the Girls Next Door....

by Jennifer Weiner, Lauren Weisberger, Adriana Trigiani

Published: 2005-07-26

Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages

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American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel

by Neil Gaiman

Published: 2011-06-21

Kindle Edition: 674 pages

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< !DOCTYPE html>TestFirst published in 2001, American Gods became an instant classic—an intellectual and artistic benchmark from the multiple-award-winning master of innovative fiction, Neil Gaiman. Now discover the mystery and magic of American Gods in this tenth anniversary edition. Newly updated and ...