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Janet Reno: Doing the Right Thing

by Paul Anderson

Published: 1994-06-07

Hardcover: 328 pages

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Uses the author's personal experience in covering Reno for over 12 years as a correspondent for The Miami Herald plus in-depth interviews with close friends and family to explore her early years at Harvard Law School as well as her tenure as a prosecutor in Miami. Reno's battles with the W...

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Thou Shalt Not

by Kathleen Stauffer

Published: 2013-03-19

Paperback: 152 pages

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Typically, historical fiction tells a story set in the past with characters tending to be fictional. Although genres vary, the made-up account of ordinary people is interwoven with historical events of the time. Thou Shalt Not is the exception. The characters existed, the setting was real, and many of...

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Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading

by Jason Merkoski

Published: 2013-08-06

Paperback: 256 pages

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A groundbreaking vision on the future of reading, from an early innovator on Amazon's Kindle team. Is digital the death knell for print? Or will it reinvigorate the written word? What will happen to bookstores, book browsing, libraries, even autographs? Will they die out—or evolve int...

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When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals

by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Susan McCarthy

Published: 1996-05-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morni...

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Counterfeit Road (Ben Raveneau)

by Kirk Russell

Published: 2012-05-01

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Twenty-two years to the day, a videotape of an unsolved 1989 murder arrives at the San Francisco Homicide Detail. So starts Counterfeit Road, second of the series and San Francisco homicide inspector Ben Raveneau’s toughest cold case. The victim, Alan Krueger, a former Secret Service age...

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Redback (John Marquez)

by Kirk Russell

Published: 2011-08-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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Fourth novel in the highly-acclaimed John Marquez crime series - Eighteen years ago, Special Agent John Marquez was forced to watch as his informant, Billy Takado, was gunned down, the victim of a set-up by criminal mastermind Emrahain Stoval. In the fallout from the affair, Marquez lost h...

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One Through the Heart (Ben Raveneau)

by Kirk Russell

Published: 2013-03-01

Hardcover: 256 pages

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The explosive new Ben Raveneau thriller. Bones in a backyard bomb shelter reactivate a San Francisco cold case and a painful connection for Raveneau after missing Ann Coryell’s desperate call for help a decade ago. But he sees something much darker in threats made by online followers of ...

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A Killing in China Basin

by Kirk Russell

Published: 2012-05-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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A new crime series set in San Francisco launches with a late night phone call. The body of a young woman lies in a trash-strewn room of a derelict building in China Basin. With that, veteran San Francisco homicide inspector, Ben Raveneau, and his hard-charging new partner, Elizabeth la Ros...

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Georges (Modern Library Classics)

by Alexandre Dumas

Published: 2008-06-10

Paperback: 336 pages

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Long out of print in America, Alexandre Dumas’s most daring narrative is now available in this major new translation by Tina A. Kover. Filled with intrigue, romance, and deadly vengeance, Georges is the story of a wealthy mulatto boy who is driven from his island home by racist landowner...

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A Prayer for the Dying: A Novel

by Stewart O'Nan

Published: 2009-05-26

Paperback: 208 pages

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Set just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying is the story of a small Wisconsin town gripped by a mysterious, deadly epidemic, and one man desperate to save it. Torn between his loyalty to his family, his faith in God, and his terror of this vicious disease, Jacob Hansen struggles t...