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The Soprano State: New Jersey's Culture of Corruption

by Bob Ingle, Sandy McClure

Published: 2010-10-26

Paperback: 352 pages

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The New York Times BestsellerUpdated with the Latest ScandalsIt’s not a jokeNew Jersey leads the country in corruptionThe Soprano State details the you-couldn't-make-this-up true story of the corruption that has pervaded New Jersey politics, government, and business for the past thirty y...

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La casa de te/ The Teahouse Fire (Spanish Edition)

by Ellis Avery

Published: 2007-02-28

Hardcover: 522 pages

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The Quiet Man (Ireland into Film)

by Luke Gibbons

Published: 2002-09

Paperback: 98 pages

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John Ford’s "The Quiet Man" (1952) is the most popular cinematic representation of Ireland, and one of Hollywood's classic romantic comedies. For some viewers and critics the film is a powerful evocation of romantic Ireland and the search for home; for others, it is a showcase for the worst stereotypes...

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Gulf Music: Poems

by Robert Pinsky

Published: 2007-10-16

Hardcover: 96 pages

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Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus.Sephardic ju-ju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces.Henry formed a group named Professor Longhair and hisShuffling Hungarians. After so much renunciationAnd invention, is this the image of the promised end?All music haunted b...

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The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996

by Robert Pinsky

Published: 1997-04-07

Paperback: 320 pages

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The Figured Wheel fully collects the first four books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems, by Robert Pinsky, the former U.S. Poet Laureate.Critic Hugh Kenner, writing about Pinsky's first volume, described this poet's work as "nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole d...

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Jersey Rain: Poems

by Robert Pinsky

Published: 2001-04-16

Paperback: 64 pages

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Cathartic, refreshing new work by the American favoriteTiptoe on the globe. Gazingnowhere in particular, the slenderThunderer surrounded by thunder,Fire zigzag in his grasp, labeled "SpiritOf Communication"---unhistorical,Pure, the merciless messenger.--from "A Phonebook Cover Hermes of th...

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Hand Me Down World

by Lloyd Jones

Published: 2011-05-01

Paperback: 0 pages

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From the author of the beloved, bestselling Mister Pip: a novel about a mother's search for her stolen child. A novel you can't stop thinking about.A woman washes up on a beach in Sicily. She has come from Tunisia to find her son, taken from her when he was just days old and stolen away to...

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The Girl, the Gold Tooth and Everything

by Francine LaSala

Published: 2012-10-07

Kindle Edition: 254 pages

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Mina Clark is losing her mind—or maybe it’s already gone. She isn’t quite sure. Feeling displaced in her over-priced McMansion-dotted suburban world, she is grappling not only with deep debt, a mostly absent husband, and her playground-terrorizer 3-year old Emma, but also with a sign...

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Ghosts of Manhattan: A Novel

by Douglas Brunt

Published: 2013-05-14

Paperback: 304 pages

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A wryly comic debut novel offering a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding his soulIT’S 2005. Nick Farmer is a thirty-five-year-old bond ...

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America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great

by Ben Carson M.D.

Published: 2013-01-22

Paperback: 224 pages

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What is America becoming? Or, more importantly, what can she be if we reclaim a vision for the things that made her great in the first place? In America the Beautiful, Dr. Ben Carson helps us learn from our past in order to chart a better course for our future. From his personal ascent fro...