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The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

Published: 2014-10-19

Hardcover: 568 pages

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When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children’s and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as “Rapunzel,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “Cinderella” would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people toda...

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The Book of Killowen (Maguire)

by Erin Hart

Published: 2014-03-11

Paperback: 352 pages

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After a year away from working in the field, archaeologist Cormac Maguire and pathologist Nora Gavin are back in the bogs, investigating a ninth-century body found buried in the trunk of a car. They discover that the ancient corpse is not alone—pinned beneath it is the body of Benedict K...

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The String Diaries

by Stephen Lloyd Jones

Published: 2015-01-06

Paperback: 448 pages

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A family is hunted by a centuries-old monster: a man with a relentless obsession who can take on any identity.The String Diaries opens with Hannah frantically driving through the night--her daughter asleep in the back, her husband bleeding out in the seat beside her. In the trunk of the ca...

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Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling through Hollywood History

by Mark Bailey

Published: 2014-09-30

Hardcover: 336 pages

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True tales of celebrity hijinks are served up with an equal measure of Hollywood history, movie-star mayhem, and a frothy mix of forty cocktail recipes.Humphrey Bogart got himself arrested for protecting his drinking buddies, who happened to be a pair of stuffed pandas. Ava Gardner would w...

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Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War

by Grace M. Cho

Published: 2008-11-11

Paperback: 232 pages

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Since the Korean War—the forgotten war—more than a million Korean women have acted as sex workers for U.S. servicemen. More than 100,000 women married GIs and moved to the United States. Through intellectual vigor and personal recollection, Haunting the Korean Diaspora explores the rep...

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Who Ate Up All the Shinga?: An Autobiographical Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia)

by Wan-suh Park

Published: 2009-07-15

Hardcover: 264 pages

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Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of grea...

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Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories

by Craig Johnson

Published: 2014-10-21

Hardcover: 208 pages

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Twelve Longmire short stories available for the first time in a single volume—featuring an introduction by Lou Diamond Phillips of A&E’s LongmireTen years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award–winning “Old Indian Trick.” This was one of the earliest ...

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Deep River

by Shusaku Endo

Published: 1995

Paperback: 224 pages

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"Endo has successfully dramatized the discovery that the sacred river of humanity flows within ourselves."—National Catholic Reporter In this moving novel, a group of Japanese tourists, each of whom is wrestling with his or her own demons, travels to the River Ganges on a pilgrimage of g...

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The Glass-Blowers

by Daphne du Maurier

Published: 2013-12-17

Kindle Edition: 348 pages

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"The Glass-Blowers consistently entertains." --New York Times The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it's own language - and its own rules. 'If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a clos...

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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

by Simon Winchester

Published: 2006-10-10

Paperback: 512 pages

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Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, explor...