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The Assistant: A Novel

by Bernard Malamud

Published: 2003-07-07

Paperback: 264 pages

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Introduction by Jonathan RosenBernard Malamud’s second novel, originally published in 1957, is the story of Morris Bober, a grocer in postwar Brooklyn, who “wants better” for himself and his family. First two robbers appear and hold him up; then things take a turn for the better when...

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Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation

by Clarence B. Jones, Stuart Connelly

Published: 2012-03-13

Paperback: 224 pages

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“I have a dream.” When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly established himself as one of the greatest ora...

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Killer Ambition (A Rachel Knight Novel)

by Marcia Clark

Published: 2013-06-18

Hardcover: 464 pages

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When the daughter of a billionaire Hollywood director is found murdered after what appears to be a kidnapping gone wrong, Los Angeles Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight and Detective Bailey Keller find themselves at the epicenter of a combustible and high-profile court case. Then a pr...

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The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians

Published: 2009-02-10

Paperback: 496 pages

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The first collection ever of the writings and insights of the original creators of the atomic bomb, along with pieces by the most important historians and interpreters of the subject, is now in paperback. Born out of a small research program begun in 1939, the Manhattan Project eventually ...

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We Are Water: A Novel

by Wally Lamb

Published: 2013-10-22

Hardcover: 576 pages

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We Are Water is a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, from Wally Lamb, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed and I Know This Much Is True.After 27 years of marriage and three childr...

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Bones of an Inland Sea

by Mary Akers

Published: 2013-10-01

Paperback: 212 pages

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Evocative and brimming with redemption, Mary Akers' newest collection BONES OF AN INLAND SEA takes the reader on a journey of exploration and transformation that begins with a 19th century shipwreck, passes through Bikini Atoll's atomic testing, sinks into the heart of a devastating tsunami, and slides...

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A Month At The Shore

by Antoinette Stockenberg

Published: 2003-08-18

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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Acclaimed USA Today bestselling author Antoinette Stockenberg consistently engages readers with her breathtaking stories of small-town romance tinged with danger. Now she returns with a tale of one woman's struggle to put the past to rest-even as it haunts her every waking moment...A Month...

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Harvest of Rubies: (Book 1)

by Tessa Afshar

Published: 2012-04-20

Paperback: 384 pages

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The prophet Nehemiah's cousin can speak numerous languages, keep complex accounts, write on rolls of parchment and tablets of clay, and solve great mysteries. There is only one problem: she is a woman.In her early childhood years, Sarah experienced the death of her mother and her father...

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Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Marcel Proust

Published: 2004-11-30

Paperback: 468 pages

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Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings P...

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In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way, Vol. 1

by Marcel Proust

Published: 2003-06-23

Paperback: 656 pages

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In Swann's Way, the themes of Proust's masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrato'.s love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an accoun...