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People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization (Cornell Paperbacks)

by Michael G. Kammen

Published: 1990-09

Paperback: 368 pages

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People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character (Walgreen Foundation Lectures)

by David M. Potter

Published: 1958-10-15

Paperback: 248 pages

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America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a people of plenty—a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundance. In this important book, David M. Potter breaks new ground both in the study of this ...

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The People of Sparks (Books of Ember)

by Jeanne DuPrau

Published: 2005-04-12

Paperback: 352 pages

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The People of Sparks picks up where The City of Ember leaves off. Lina and Doon have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above, and it isn?t long before they are followed by the other inhabitants of Ember. The Emberites soon come across a town where they are welcome...

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People of the Book: A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks

Published: 2008-01-01

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The "complex and moving"(The New Yorker) novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks follows a rare manuscript through centuries of exile and warInspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and ...

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People of the Thunder (North America's Forgotten Past)

by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Published: 2009-11-03

Paperback: 496 pages

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By 1300 AD, the Sky Hand people had crushed and enslaved the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's mighty walls. Great armies are on the march, an...

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People of the Whale: A Novel

by Linda Hogan

Published: 2008-08-11

Hardcover: 304 pages

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People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

by Richard Lloyd Parry

Published: 2012-05-22

Paperback: 454 pages

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Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.  Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, cove...

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The People's Act of Love: A Novel

by James Meek

Published: 2006-12-04

Paperback: 391 pages

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In a remote Siberian village, amid a lawless, unforgiving landscape, lives Anna Petrovna, a beautiful, willfully self-reliant widowed mother. A mystical, separatist Christian sect, a stranded regiment of restless Czech soldiers, and an eerie local shaman live nearby, all struggling against...

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People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)

by Howard Zinn

Published: 2005-08-01

Paperback: 729 pages

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Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, a...

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A People's History of the United States, Abridged Teaching Edition, Updated Edition

by Howard Zinn

Published: 2003-08

Paperback: 640 pages

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The New Press's Abridged Teaching Edition of A People's History of the United States has made Howard Zinn's original text available specifically for classroom use. With exercises and teaching materials to accompany each chapter, this edition spans American Beginnings, Reconstruction, the C...