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Capital in the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas Piketty

Published: 2014-04-15

Hardcover: 696 pages

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What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard ...

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To Have and to Kill (Piper Donovan/Wedding Cake Mysteries)

by Mary Jane Clark

Published: 2011-10-25

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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“Clark has perfected the suspense novel.”—BooklistNew York Times bestselling author and mystery writer par excellence, Mary Jane Clark kicks off her delicious new Wedding Cake mystery series with To Have and To Kill. A tasty departure from her thrillers featuring KEY News television ...

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The Hunchback: A Play in Five Acts

by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, Paul Feval

Published: 2011-10-07

Kindle Edition: 176 pages

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Henri de Lagardere, the best swordsman in France, suddenly finds himself duty-bound to protect the baby female heir of a murdered friend--a girl who matures into a beautiful woman who will one day inherit a princely fortune--a girl with whom Henri falls madly in love. But his affection is hopeless: the...

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Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus' Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption

by Ion Mihai Pacepa

Published: 1990-04-15

Paperback: 456 pages

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A former chief of Romania's foreign intelligence service reveals the extraordinary corruption of the Nicolae Ceausescu government of Romania, its brutal machinery of oppression, and its Machiavellian relationship with the West. An in side story of how Communist Party leaders really live....

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Cazul Magheru (Sfintul Parere): Roman (Romanian Edition)

by Mihail Drumes

Published: 1991

Unknown Binding: 190 pages

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Wuthering Heights (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Emily Brontë

Published: 1996-09-24

Paperback: 256 pages

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Considered lurid and shocking by mid-19th-century standards, Wuthering Heights was initially thought to be such a publishing risk that its author, Emily Brontë, was asked to pay some of the publication costs. A somber tale of consuming passions and vengeance played out against the lonely ...

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Surrender The Heart (Surrender to Destiny)

by MaryLu Tyndall

Published: 2010-08-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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For the sake of her ailing mother and destitute sister, Marianne Denton has become engaged to Noah Brenin, a merchantman she despises and who has no intentions of going through with the wedding himself. Unwillingly the volatile couple find themselves deeply entangled in the War of 1812 when Noah s ship...

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Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier

by Robert Emmons

Published: 2007-08-06

Hardcover: 256 pages

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The first major study of gratitude that shows how “wanting what we have” can measurably change people’s lives.   Did you know that there is a crucial component of happiness that is often overlooked? Robert Emmons—editor-in-chief of the Journal of Positive Psychology—examines wha...

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The Blades Carry Me: Inside the Helicopter War in Vietnam

by James V. Weatherill

Published: 2014-03-06

Paperback: 284 pages

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James V. Weatherill served as an Army helicopter pilot in Vietnam from November 1967 to November 1968. His memoir, THE BLADES CARRY ME: INSIDE THE HELICOPTER WAR IN VIETNAM, takes the reader into the CH-47 Chinook helicopter cockpit and the daily life of a 22-year-old pilot. The young man must reconcile...

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Texas-Israeli War: 1999

by Howard Waldrop, Jake Saunders

Published: 1978-10-12

Mass Market Paperback: 209 pages

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