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The Italian Girl

by Iris Murdoch

Published: 2010-07-20

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A poignant portrait of a family’s struggle for redemptionThe funeral of Edward’s mother brings him home for the first time in years. Though his return rekindles his affection for his childhood home, it also triggers a resurgence of the family tensions that caused him to leave in the fi...

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Book of Hours

by T. Davis Bunn

Published: 2000

Hardcover: 285 pages

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Very good hardcover copy. Note written on inside cover. Dust jacket is a bit worn, cover in excellent condition and spine is in solid condition. Ships out quickly.

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Stolen Innocence (Detective Jake Hunter Book 2)

by Joe B Parr

Published: 2014-03-21

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Stolen Innocence is the second of the Jake Hunter series of mystery suspense novels. Finding the body of a beautiful young teenage girl launches Fort Worth Police Detective Jake Hunter and his partner, Billy Sanders, into an investigation that pulls them into a world of human trafficking...

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The Running Man

by Stephen King

Published: 1999-08-01

Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages

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In the year 2025, the best men don’t run for President, they run for their lives….Ben Richards is out of work and out of luck. His eighteen-month-old daughter is sick, and neither Ben nor his wife can afford to take her to a doctor. For a man with no cash and no hope from the poor side...

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High-Rise: A Novel

by J. G. Ballard

Published: 2012-04-16

Paperback: 208 pages

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"Harsh and ingenious! High Rise is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers unsettlingly in the mind." ?Martin Amis, New Statesman When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding at...

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Beyond the Bear: How I Learned To Live And Love Again After Being Blinded By A Bear

by Dan Bigley, Debra McKinney

Published: 2013-04-02

Hardcover: 224 pages

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A 25-year-old backcountry wanderer, a man happiest exploring wild places with his dog, Dan Bigley woke up one midsummer morning to a day full of promise. Before it was over, after a stellar day of salmon fishing along Alaska’s Kenai and Russian rivers, a grizzly came tearing around a cor...

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Grow Your Value: Living and Working to Your Full Potential

by Mika Brzezinski

Published: 2015-05-12

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A woman who wants to be successful must make sacrifices, but how can she determine which ones she’ll be happy with five, ten, twenty years from now?Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe co-host and New York Times best-selling author of Knowing Your Value, has built a career on inspiring women to ...

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Daughter of Damascus: A Memoir (Modern Middle East Literature in Translation)

by Siham Tergeman

Published: 1993-01-01

Paperback: 200 pages

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Daughter of Damascus presents a personal account of a Syrian woman's youth in the Suq Saruja ("old city") quarter of Damascus in the 1940s. Siham Tergeman wrote this book to preserve the details of a "genuine Arab past" for Syrian young people. In it, she relates the customs pertaining to ...

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Mr. Splitfoot

by Samantha Hunt

Published: 2016-01-05

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A contemporary gothic from an author in the company of Kelly Link and Aimee Bender, Mr. Splitfoot tracks two women in two times as they march toward a mysterious reckoning. Ruth and Nat are orphans, packed into a house full of abandoned children run by a religious fanatic. To entertain ...

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Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language (MIT Press)

by Richard M. Roberts, Roger J. Kreuz

Published: 2015-08-07

Hardcover: 248 pages

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Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they find the methods used to teach children don't seem to work for them....