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The Backbone of the World: A Portrait of the Vanishing West Along the Continental Divide

by Frank Clifford

Published: 2003-05-13

Paperback: 288 pages

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In recent years, Los Angeles Times writer and editor Frank Clifford has journeyed along the Continental Divide, the hemispheric watershed that spans North America from the alkali badlands of southernmost New Mexico to the roof of the Rockies in Montana and into Canada. The result is The B...

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Dead Water (Benjamin January, Book 8)

by Barbara Hambly

Published: 2005-04-26

Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages

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Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it's into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it's more than just a jo...

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The Rule of Four: A Novel

by Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason

Published: 2012-08-21

Paperback: 400 pages

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“One part The Da Vinci Code, one part The Name of the Rose and one part A Separate Peace . . . a smart, swift, multitextured tale that both entertains and informs.”—San Francisco Chronicle   NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two fri...

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Travels with Charley in Search of America

by John Steinbeck

Published: 1980-01-31

Paperback: 288 pages

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An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writers   To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the countr...

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Prayers for the Assassin: A Novel

by Robert Ferrigno

Published: 2006-10-31

Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages

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What would happen to America if the extremists won? SEATTLE, 2040. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. At the edges of the ...

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Orfeo: A Novel

by Richard Powers

Published: 2014-01-20

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller The National Book Award–winning author of The Echo Maker delivers his most emotionally charged novel to date, inspired by the myth of Orpheus. "If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century…he'd probably be the Herman Melville of Moby-Dick. Hi...

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Line by Line

by Barbara Hacha

Published: 2011-03-10

Paperback: 372 pages

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The 1930s: As the Great Depression deepens and her family disintegrates, Maddy Skobel flees her central Ohio town—by freight train—determined to make her own way. Learning to survive as a hobo while facing hardship, danger, and violence, Maddy must discover her own resourcefulness and strengths....

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How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition

by David Bornstein

Published: 2007-09-17

Paperback: 368 pages

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How to Change the World provides vivid profiles of social entrepreneurs. The book is an In Search of Excellence for social initiatives, intertwining personal stories, anecdotes, and analysis. Readers will discover how one person can make an astonishing difference in the world. The cas...

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Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile

by Taras Grescoe

Published: 2012-04-24

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution"I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America is ofte...

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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

by Jeff Speck

Published: 2013-11-12

Paperback: 320 pages

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“Timely and important, a delightful, insightful, irreverent work . . . Should be required reading.” —The Christian Science MonitorA Best Book of the Year according to Planetizen and the American Society of Landscape Architects Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what ...