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Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One

by Thomas Sowell

Published: 2003-11-13

Hardcover: 256 pages

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The application of economics to major contemporary real world problems--housing, medical care, discrimination, the economic development of nations--is the theme of this new book that tackles these and other issues head on in plain language, as distinguished from the usual jargon of economi...

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Appointment

by Herta. Muller

Published: 2010

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Appointment in Samarra

by John O'Hara

Published: 1982-07-12

Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages

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A twentieth-century classic, Appointment in Samarra is the first and most widely read book by the writer Fran Leibowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald.”In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville social circuit is electrified with parties and dances, where the...

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The Appointment: A Novel

by Herta Müller

Published: 2010-11-23

Paperback: 240 pages

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From the winner of the IMPAC Award and the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, a fierce and devastating novel about a young woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life"I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins a day in the life of a young factory worker d...

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The Apprentice- Tess Gerritsen

by Tess Gerritsen

Published: 2003-07-29

Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages

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The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns—and so does that chilling novel’s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and all-too-deadly.THE APPRENTICEIt is a boilin...

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The Apprentice: My Life In The Kitchen

by Jacques Pepin

Published: 2003-04-10

Hardcover: 336 pages

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In this captivating memoir, the man whom Julia Child has called "the best chef in America" tells the story of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an exacting Old World kitchen to an Emmy Awardwinning superstar who taught millions of Americans how to cook and shaped the nation's tastes in the bargain....

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April & Oliver: A Novel

by Tess Callahan

Published: 2009-06-03

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Best friends since childhood, the sexual tension between April and Oliver has always been palpable. Years after being completely inseparable, they become strangers, but the wildly different paths of their lives cross once again with the sudden death of April's brother. Oliver, the responsi...

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April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.)

by Jay Winik

Published: 2006-08-01

Paperback: 512 pages

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One month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee's harrowing retreat, and then, Appomattox. It saw Lincoln's assassination just five days later and a near-successful plot to decapitate the Union government, followed by...

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April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America

by Michael Eric Dyson

Published: 2008-03-31

Hardcover: 304 pages

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On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King--the prophet for racial and economic justice in America--ended his final speech with the words, "I may not get there with you, ...

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An April Elegy: [1917]

by Arthur Davison Ficke

Published: 2009-06-25

Paperback: 178 pages

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Originally published in 1917. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original...