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Old Jules

by Mari Sandoz

Published: 2005-04-01

Paperback: 425 pages

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First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz's masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of ?the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of ...

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The Old Man & The Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

Published: 2007-11-06

Paperback: 104 pages

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It is the story of an epic struggle between an old, seasoned fisherman and the greatest catch of his life. For eighty-four days, Santiago, an aged Cuban fisherman, has set out to sea and returned empty-handed. So conspicuously unlucky is he that the parents of his young devoted apprentice and friend,...

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* * * Pointless,
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The Old Man and The Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

Published: 1995-05-05

Paperback: 128 pages

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The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemi...

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The Old Man in the Corner (Fingerprint Classics)

by Baroness Orczy

Published: 2009-03

Paperback: 192 pages

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Reporter Polly Burton accepts the fact that many crimes will always be unsolved. She calls them mysteries. But the old man in the tea shop claims that there are no mysteries. All it takes to solve a crime is a quick mind and an unbiased view of the facts. The old man gives Polly a detailed account of...

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Old Man's War

by John Scalzi

Published: 2007-04-01

Kindle Edition: 332 pages

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John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The uni...

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Old Man's War: John Scalzi, the Last Colony, Zoe's Tale, the Ghost Brigades

Paperback: 32 pages

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Old School

by Tobias Wolff

Published: 2004-08-31

Paperback: 195 pages

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The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on ea...

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Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives

by Thomas Shroder

Published: 2001-07-10

Paperback: 25 pages

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A riveting firsthand account of one man's mission to investigate and document some of the most astonishing untold phenomena of our timeAll across the globe, small children spontaneously speak of previous lives, beg to be taken "home," pine for mothers and husbands and mistresses from anoth...

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The Old Wine Shades (Richard Jury Novels)

by Martha Grimes

Published: 2007-03-06

Paperback: 391 pages

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The Old Wives' Tale

by Arnold Bennett

Published: 2003-06

Hardcover: 588 pages

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The Old Wives' Tale (1908) celebrates the romance of even the most ordinary lives as it tells the story of the two Baines sisters, placid stay-at-home Constance and rebellious Sophia, from their girlhood to their last days. They move from the family drapery shop in provincial Bursley durin...