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Oil

by Upton Sinclair

Published: 2008-04-01

Hardcover: 544 pages

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Oil on the Brain: Petroleum's Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank

by Lisa Margonelli

Published: 2008-02-12

Paperback: 352 pages

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Oil on the Brain is a smart, surprisingly funny account of the oil industry?the people, economies, and pipelines that bring us petroleum, brilliantly illuminating a world we encounter every day.Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second, without giving it much of a thought. Wh...

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Oil!

by Upton Sinclair

Published: 2008-02-01

Hardcover: 544 pages

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This novel originates from the 'Teapot Dome' oil scandal of President Warren Harding as oil barons bribe politicians. It is about greed and the oil boom of Southern California in the 1920's. It is wrapped up in evangelic crusades by shifty preachers and leftist labor activists. "Oil" is a provoking...

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Okay for Now

by Gary D. Schmidt

Published: 2013-02-05

Paperback: 368 pages

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National Book Award Finalist "[A] stealthily powerful, unexpectedly affirming story of discovering and rescuing one’s best self."—Booklist, starred reviewIn this companion novel to The Wednesday Wars, Doug struggles to be more than the "skinny thug" that some people think him to be....

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Old Before My Time: Hayley Okines' life with progeria

by Hayley Okines, Kerry Okines

Published: 2012-03-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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The extraordinary life of Britain's 100-year-old teenager Hayley Okines is like no other 13-year-old schoolgirl. Born with the rare genetic condition progeria, she ages eight times faster than the average person. In medical terms her body is like that of a 100-year-old woman. Yet she faces her condition...

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Old Bones (Book Four in the Gideon Oliver series)

by Aaron Elkins

Published: 2010-08-26

Paperback: 212 pages

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"The Skeleton Detective" is called to a French isle soon after an aristocrat drowns. But he soon finds that the case is eerily connected to another murder--way back during the Nazi Occupation of World War II France.In the flood tides off Mont St. Michel, revered Resistance-hero Guillaume ...

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The Old Buzzard Had It Coming: An Alafair Tucker Mystery

by Donis Casey

Published: 2006-09-01

Paperback: 216 pages

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One winter evening in 1912, in the woods outside of Boynton, Oklahoma, abusive and drunken Harley Day surprises his son John Lee and the neighbor girl Phoebe Tucker in a lovers' tryst. An hour later, when John Lee walks his beloved home, Phoebe's mother, Alafair Tucker, suspects that somet...

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The Old Curiosity Shop (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2003-07-15

Paperback: 416 pages

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The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics)

by Charles Dickens

Published: 2001-07-01

Paperback: 608 pages

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The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a daz...

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Old Filth

by Jane Gardam

Published: 2006-06-01

Kindle Edition: 289 pages

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Book One in Jane Gardam's Old Filth TrilogySir Edward Feathers has had a brilliant career, from his early days as a lawyer in Southeast Asia, where he earned the nickname Old Filth (FILTH being an acronym for Failed In London Try Hong Kong) to his final working days as a respected judge at...