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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

by A. J. Jacobs

Published: 2005-10-04

Paperback: 400 pages

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33,000 PAGES44 MILLION WORDS10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY1 OBSESSED MANPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.To fill t...

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Knowing God

by J. I. Packer

Published: 1993-06-24

Paperback: 286 pages

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One of the top 50 books that have shaped evangelicals (Christianity Today, 2006) Platinum Book Award, Evangelical Christian Publishing Association For over 40 years, J. I. Packer's classic has been an important tool to help Christians around the world discover the wonder, the glory and the...

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The Known World CD

by Edward P. Jones

Published: 2004-06-01

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In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making cer...

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The Known World

by Edward P. Jones

Published: 2003

Hardcover: 388 pages

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Henry Townsend, a black bootmaker and former slave in antebellum Virginia, becomes a proprietor of his own plantation--as well as his own slaves. This modern masterpiece explores what happens when he dies and "the known world" unravels. 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Fiction.

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Knoxville Bound: A Collection of Literary Works Inspired by Knoxville, Tennessee

Published: 2004

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Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity

by Mo Willems

Published: 2007-09-04

Hardcover: 48 pages

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Trixie can't wait to bring her one-of-a-kind Knuffle Bunny to school and show him off to everyone. But when she gets there, she sees something awful: Sonja has the same bunny. Suddenly, Knuffle Bunny doesn't seem so one-of-a-kind anymore. Chaos ensues until the bunnies are taken away by...

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Kockroach

by Tyler Knox

Published: 2008-02-26

Paperback: 384 pages

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It is the mid-1950s, and Kockroach, perfectly content with his life infesting a fleabag hotel off Times Square, awakens to discover that somehow he's been transformed into, of all things, a human. A tragic turn of events, yes, but cockroaches are awesome coping machines, so Kockroach cope...

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Kockroach: A Novel

by Tyler Knox

Published: 2007-01-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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In Kockroach, a wholly original work of literary noir, Tyler Knox brilliantly turns Kafka's The Metamorphosis on its head It is the mid-1950s, and in a fleabag hotel off Times Square, Kockroach, perfectly content with life as an insect, awakens to discover that somehow he's become, of a...

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The Kommandant's Girl

by Pam Jenoff

Published: 2007-02-20

Paperback: 400 pages

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Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft

by Thor Heyerdahl

Published: 2010-03-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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?One of the great adventures of our time.??Life ?Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? ?Reply at once.? That is how six brave and inquisitive men came to seek a dangerous path to test a scientific th...