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Wait for Me!: Memoirs

by Deborah Mitford

Published: 2011-09-13

Paperback: 345 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEDeborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy. Wait for Me! chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood roaming the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea wi...

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The Ten Thousand Things

by Maria Dermout, Hans Koning

Published: 2002-08

Paperback: 296 pages

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In Wild, Cheryl Strayed writes of The Ten Thousand Things: "Each of Dermoût’s sentences came at me like a soft knowing dagger, depicting a far-off land that felt to me like the blood of all the places I used to love.” And it's true, The Ten Thousand Things is at once novel of shimmeri...

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The Girl with All the Gifts

by M.R. Carey

Published: 2014-06-10

Hardcover: 416 pages

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NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING.Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchai...

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The Long Home

by William Gay

Published: 2003-01-20

Paperback: 272 pages

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Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter, lost his father years ago to an evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine. Amber Rose is a beautiful young woman forced to live with that evil, who recognizes Nathan as her only chance of escape. William Tell Oliver,...

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The Stamp of Glory: A Novel of the Abolitionist Movement

by Tim Stafford

Published: 2000-01-24

Paperback: 380 pages

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Amid continuing debate over just how "Christian" are the Christian roots of the United States, The Stamp of Glory is the first book in a multigenerational family saga where the main characters interact with actual historical Christians who helped changed America for the better. The story ...

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Saints and Villains

by Denise Giardina

Published: 1999-02-09

Paperback: 487 pages

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In the charnel house that was Europe in the Second World War, there were few instances of shining moral courage, let along secular sainthood. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and Nazi resister was the exception. This emblematic figure risked his life--and finally lost it--through his participation...

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The Luneburg Variation

by Paolo Maurensig, Jon Rothschild

Published: 1997-11

Hardcover: 139 pages

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The the body of an impeccable businessman from Vienna is discovered in an elaborate garden where topiary shrubs delineate a hidden chessboard behind the hedges. Apparently the death is a suicide without plausible motivation, but as the plot of this passionately colored, coolly controlled thriller unfolds,...

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On China

by Henry Kissinger

Published: 2012-04-24

Paperback: 624 pages

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"Fascinating, shrewd . . . The book deftly traces the rhythms and patterns of Chinese history." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIn this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose...

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Taking Liberties: Why Religious Freedom Doesn't Give You the Right to Tell Other People What to Do

by Robert Boston

Published: 2014-03-04

Paperback: 198 pages

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A concise and lucid explanation of what religious freedom is and isn't.Increasingly, conservative religious groups are using religious liberty as a sword to lash out at others. In this forcefully argued defense of the separation of church and state, Robert Boston makes it clear that the re...

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When I Was a Young Man: A Memoir by Bob Kerrey

by J. Robert Kerrey

Published: 2002-06-06

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Bob Kerrey grew up outside Lincoln, Nebraska, in the 1950s, and in his trademark style-serious, sometimes wry-he tells of his journey from that heartland to the dangers of Vietnam, to the hospitals where he recovered from his grievous injuries, and finally to the Nixon White House where he...