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The Cradle: A Novel

by Patrick Somerville

Published: 2009-03-09

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Early one summer morning, Matthew Bishop kisses his still-sleeping wife Marissa, gets dressed and eases his truck through Milwaukee, bound for the highway. His wife, pregnant with their first child, has asked him to find the antique cradle taken years before by her mother Caroline when sh...

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The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World

by Allen W. Dulles

Published: 2006-04-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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If the experts could point to any single book as a starting point for understanding the subject of intelligence from the late twentieth century to today, that single book would be Allen W. Dulles's The Craft of Intelligence. This classic of spycraft is based on Allen Dulles's incomparable ...

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* * * * Optimistic,
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Cranberry Queen

by Kathleen De Marco

Published: 2002-04-17

Paperback: 272 pages

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Diana Moore, a thirty-something professional in New York City, is brooding over rumors about her ex-lovers beautiful new girlfriend, when the unimaginable happens: a terrible car accident in which her entire family is killed. Seeking refuge from her well-meaning friends, Diana heads out of the city and...

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The Cranes Dance

by Meg Howrey

Published: 2012-05-15

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''I threw my neck out in the middle of Swan Lake last night.'' So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company. Kate is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world, a world she can't help satirizing even as she balances injury and self-d...

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* * * Interesting,
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Cranford

by Elizabeth Gaskell

Published: 2009-01-01

Paperback: 108 pages

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The most well-known and well-liked of Gaskell's works, this softly humorous picture of an English country village was first serialized in a magazine edited by Charles Dickens in 1851. Based on the village of Gaskell's childhood, "Cranford" is narrated by a young woman visiting the town who describes...

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Cranford (Penguin Classics)

by Elizabeth Gaskell

Published: 2008-04-01

Paperback: 213 pages

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A gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Rich with humor and filled with vi...

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* * * * * Scary

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Crank

by Ellen Hopkins

Published: 2004-10-05

Paperback: 544 pages

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Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina -- she's fearless. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: cra...

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Crank: Crank + Glass (Crank Series)

by Ellen Hopkins

Published: 2009-10-27

Paperback: 1264 pages

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The heart-wrenching bestselling Crank trilogy shows that addiction is never just one person's problem. Crank Kristina is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. Then she meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ride turns into a struggle for he...

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* * * * Informative,
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Crash Into Me: A Survivor's Search for Justice

by Liz Seccuro

Published: 2011-01-04

Hardcover: 256 pages

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In September 2005, Liz Seccuro's world turned upside down when she received an apology letter from the man who had raped her twenty-two years earlier. The rape, which occurred when she was a seventeen-year-old freshman at the University of Virginia, was reported to the campus police, but t...

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The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets

by George Soros

Published: 2009-03-30

Paperback: 288 pages

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In the midst of one of the most serious financial upheavals since the Great Depression, George Soros, the legendary financier and philanthropist, writes about the origins of the crisis and proposes a set of policies that should be adopted to confront it. Soros, whose breadth of experience ...