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Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America

by Tanner Colby

Published: 2013-07-30

Paperback: 320 pages

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An irreverent, yet powerful exploration of race relations by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Chris Farley ShowFrank, funny, and incisive, Some of My Best Friends Are Black offers a profoundly honest portrait of race in America. In a book that is part reportage, part history, p...

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Other Pieces

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The Comedians (Penguin Classics)

by Graham Greene

Published: 2005-01-25

Paperback: 320 pages

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Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt “Papa Doc” and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the confidence man—these are the “comedians” of Greene’s title. Hiding behind ...

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What the Lady Wants: A Novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age

by Renée Rosen

Published: 2014-11-04

Paperback: 448 pages

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In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, visionary retail tycoon Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers with his famous motto: “Give the lady what she wants.” His legendary charm also won the heart of socialite Delia Spencer and led to an infamous love affair.   The night ...

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What the Best College Teachers Do

by Ken Bain

Published: 2004-04-30

Hardcover: 207 pages

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What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. The short ...

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DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education

by Anya Kamenetz

Published: 2010-04-01

Paperback: 196 pages

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The price of college tuition has increased more than any other major good or service for the last twenty years. Nine out of ten American high school seniors aspire to go to college, yet the United States has fallen from world leader to only the tenth most educated nation. Almost half of co...

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The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle

by Joanne Huist Smith

Published: 2014-10-28

Hardcover: 224 pages

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For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love.After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist S...

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Sometimes the Wolf: A Novel

by Urban Waite

Published: 2014-10-21

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Set in the Pacific Northwest, a spellbinding story of family, violence, and unintended consequences that showcases the searing prose, soulful characters, and vivid sense of place of an acclaimed writer in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy, Dennis Lehane, and Elmore Leonard.Sheriff Patrick D...

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The Dog Sox

by Russell Hill

Published: 2011-04-01

Paperback: 176 pages

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Fiction. Ray Adams buys his girlfriend, beautiful Ava Belle, a baseball team for her birthday. She loves dogs and baseball. Ray's gift is a broken-down semi-pro team in California's Central Valley, with a 70-year-old Jewish manager who's been in baseball for 50 years and breaks into Yiddish homilies...

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Pardonable Lies: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (Maisie Dobbs Novels)

by Jacqueline Winspear

Published: 2006-06-27

Paperback: 359 pages

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In the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful WWI memories to resolve the mystery of a pilot's death.A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psy...