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North Sea Requiem: A Novel

by A. D. Scott

Published: 2013-09-03

Paperback: 336 pages

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FROM THE AUTHOR WHO “BRILLIANTLY EVOKES THE LIFE OF A SMALL SCOTTISH TOWN” (RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH ) COMES A NOVEL THAT UNCOVERS THE DEEP AND LASTING DIVISIONS OF A COMMUNITY AND ITS PEOPLE. When a small-town Scottish woman discovers a severed leg in the boot of one of the local hock...

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A Double Death on the Black Isle: A Novel

by A. D. Scott

Published: 2011-09-27

Paperback: 384 pages

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Two Women, Two Murders . . . A stunning and suspenseful story of families, betrayal, and a community divided.Nothing is ever quite at peace on Scotland’s Black Isle—the Traveling people are forever at odds with the locals, the fishermen have nothing in common with the farmers, and the ...

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A Small Death in the Great Glen: A Novel

by A. D. Scott

Published: 2010-08-03

Paperback: 416 pages

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Both probing character study and a driving novel of suspense, here is a novel that will linger in your mind like mist over the Scottish glens . . .In the Highlands of 1950s Scotland, a boy is found dead in a canal lock. Two young girls tell such a fanciful story of his disappearance that n...

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Beneath the Abbey Wall: A Novel

by A. D. Scott

Published: 2012-11-13

Paperback: 352 pages

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AS A DECADE OF CHANGE COMES TO A CLOSE, MURDER HITS CLOSE TO HOME IN A SMALL SCOTTISH TOWN. . . . On a dark, damp Sunday evening, a man taking a shortcut home sees a hand reaching out in supplication from a bundle of sacks. In an instant he knows something terrifying has happened. In the H...

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The Wolf of Wall Street (Movie Tie-in Edition)

by Jordan Belfort

Published: 2013-11-26

Paperback: 528 pages

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Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBy day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the ...

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A Dog's Journey: A Novel

by W. Bruce Cameron

Published: 2013-05-07

Paperback: 336 pages

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The direct sequel to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce CameronBuddy is a good dog. After searching for his purpose through several eventful lives, Buddy is sure that he has found and fulfilled it. Yet as he watches curious baby Clarity get into danger...

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Moral Sense

by James Q Wilson

Published: 1993-08-09

Hardcover: 313 pages

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Are human beings naturally endowed with a conscience? Or is morality artificially acquired through social pressure and instruction? Most people assume that modern science proves the latter. Further, most of our current social policies are based upon this "scientific" view of the sources of morality....

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

by Jane Jacobs

Published: 1992-12-01

Paperback: 458 pages

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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all en...

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The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues Of Community In America

by Alan Ehrenhalt

Published: 1996-08-23

Paperback: 320 pages

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Millions of Americans yearn for a lost sense of community, for the days when neighbors looked out for one another and families were stable and secure. The 1950s are regarded as the golden age of community, but 1960s rebellion and 1980s nostalgia have blurred our view of what life was reall...

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The FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress

by Virginia Postrel

Published: 1999-12-08

Paperback: 288 pages

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Today we have greater wealth, health, opportunity, and choice than at any time in history. Yet a chorus of intellectuals and politicians laments our current condition -- as slaves to technology, coarsened by popular culture, and insecure in the face of economic change. The future, they tel...