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Mission Flats: A Novel

by William Landay

Published: 2012-06-12

Paperback: 383 pages

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Before the New York Times bestselling success of Defending Jacob, William Landay wrote this critically acclaimed first novel of crime and suspense—perfect for fans of John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Dennis Lehane.   “Landay writes with eloquent intensity.”—The New York Times Book R...

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Retribution

by Carmen Rodríguez

Published: 2011-11-01

Kindle Edition: 370 pages

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When Vancouver-based artist Tania receives a letter suggesting that her biological father may not be the man she has always known as such, her world turns upside down. As she struggles to understand the implications of this news and delves into her family's complex past, Tania discovers the ultimate...

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Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee

by Hattie Ellis

Published: 2006-04-25

Paperback: 256 pages

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Did you know that Abraham Lincoln and Muhammad Ali both consumed bee pollen to boost energy, or that beekeepers in nineteenth-century Europe viewed their bees as part of the family? Or that after man, the honeybee, Apis mellifera, is the most studied creature on the planet? And that throug...

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A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Parts

by Sebastian Faulks

Published: 2012-12-11

Hardcover: 304 pages

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From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked across centuries.In Second World War Poland, a young prisoner closes his eyes and pictures going to bat on a sunlit English cricket...

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Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness

by Alfredo Corchado

Published: 2013-05-30

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In the last six years, more than eighty thousand people have been killed in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink fro...

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Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed

by Hawa Abdi

Published: 2013-04-02

Hardcover: 272 pages

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The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated for over 20 years in Somalia. Dr. Hawa Abdi, "the Mother Teresa of Somalia" and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, is the founder of a massive camp for internally ...

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Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World

by Shereen El Feki

Published: 2013-03-12

Hardcover: 368 pages

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If you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms. As political change sweeps the streets and squares, the parliaments and presidential palaces of the Arab world, Shereen El Feki has been looking at an upheaval a little closer to home—in the sexual lives of men...

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The Perfect Peach: Recipes and Stories from the Masumoto Family Farm

by David Mas Masumoto, Marcy Masumoto, Nikiko Masumoto

Published: 2013-06-11

Hardcover: 176 pages

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A cookbook showcasing the luscious flavor of peaches in 50 sweet and savory dishes, drawing on the life stories and experiences of America's foremost peach farming family, the Masumotos of California's central valley.Enjoy the luscious versatility of summer’s finest fruit with fifty swee...

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Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel

by John Guy

Published: 2012-07-03

Hardcover: 448 pages

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A revisionist new biography reintroducing readers to one of the most subversive figures in English history—the man who sought to reform a nation, dared to defy his king, and laid down his life to defend his sacred honor   Becket’s life story has been often told but never so incisively...

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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson

by Jeff Guinn

Published: 2013-08-06

Hardcover: 512 pages

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The most authoritative account ever written of how an ordinary juvenile delinquent named Charles Manson became the notorious murderer whose crimes still shock and horrify us today. More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, among them the pr...