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In the Shadow of the Law
Published: 2005-06-15
Hardcover: 384 pages
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Morgan Siler is one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful K Street law firms, its roster of clients stocked with multi-billion-dollar corporations. Through the obsessive efforts of its founder's son, Peter Morgan, his father's old-fashioned business has been transformed into a veritable goli...
In The Shadow of The Trees
Published: 2003-07-22
Paperback: 264 pages
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A superb novel of the CCC camps. This particular camp is in NW Pennsylvania, but it is fairly typical of all CCC camps. The hero battles fires, snakes, poverty, dust, flood, everything. There is boxing, girl chasing, hard work and hard play by victims of the great depression.
In the Skin of a Lion
Published: 1997-01-14
Paperback: 256 pages
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Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life...
In the Time of the Butterflies
Published: 1995-08-01
Paperback: 325 pages
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They were the four Mirabal sisters—symbols of defiant hope in a country shadowed by dictatorship and despair. They sacrificed their safe and comfortable lives in the name of freedom. Their codename in the revolution was Las Mariposas, "The Butterflies," and in this extraordinary novel, Patria, Minerva,...
In the Time of the Girls (American Readers Series)
Published: 2010-10-01
Paperback: 144 pages
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Using a spare, image-laden prose style, Germanacos’ focuses on discrete, telling moments to create fast-paced stories that pack a powerful punch. This is not your standard short story collection – it is an innovative work of literary prose as brilliant, concise, and potent as a bolt of lightning....
In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country
Published: 1997-02-17
Paperback: 272 pages
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Poet Kim Barnes grew up in northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a modest but comfortable home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches of family and friendship, and the great...
In the Woods
Published: 2008-05-27
Paperback: 464 pages
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The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of The Witch Elm and “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years” (The Washington Post). “Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence a...
In Their Blood: A Novel
Published: 2009-09-08
Hardcover: 368 pages
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Born into a life of privilege, Jeremy Stroeb loves freedom, loathes responsibility and drops out of college to start backpacking across Europe. But this free-spirited drifter crashes back to brutal reality when his parents, Rachel and Daniel Stroeb, are murdered in their home on Miami Bea...
In This Hospitable Land
Published: 2011-04-26
Paperback: 606 pages
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Product Description: When the Germans invade Belgium in 1940, chemistry professor André Severin fears the worst. His colleagues believe their social and political positions will protect them during the occupation, but André knows better. He has watched Hitler's rise to power and knows th...
In This Way I Was Saved
Published: 2009
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