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It's Not Love, It's Just Paris

by Patricia Engel

Published: 2013-08-06

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Patricia Engel’s collection of stories, Vida, quickly established her as one of our country’s best young writers, winning praise from Junot Díaz, Uzodinma Iweala, Francisco Goldman, and others. Her first novel is a vibrant and wistful narrative about an American girl abroad in Paris, ...

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Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn

by Kris Radish

Published: 2004-12-28

Paperback: 328 pages

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From the bestselling author of The Elegant Gathering of White Snows comes a poignant, outrageous, refreshingly liberating story about one woman whose life takes an unexpected turn....Meg Fratano has just witnessed the unthinkable: her husband of twenty—seven years making love to another ...

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Five Quarters of the Orange: A Novel (P.S.)

by Joanne Harris

Published: 2009-10-13

Kindle Edition: 322 pages

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When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. But the past and present are inextricably entwined, particularly in a...

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I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers

by Tim Madigan

Published: 2012-03-10

Paperback: 190 pages

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It began as another newspaper assignment, a celebrity profile of the children’s television icon. But in Fred Rogers, Texas journalist Tim Madigan found more than a fascinating subject. From their first meeting in 1995, at Rogers’ invitation, the two became unlikely friends, a deep and abiding relationship...

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Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, 1892-1895 (Penguin Classics)

by Anton Chekhov

Published: 2002-08-27

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Impressionistic and bold, the nine stories in this collection frame the middle period of Chekhov's career. Exploring both complicated and intense emotions, Chekhov presents a world without simple answers or universal truths. "Ward No. 6" is a savage indictment of the medical profession. "T...

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Ward No. 6 and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

by Anton Chekhov

Published: 2003-07-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of th...

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The Unseen Promise (Tarkeenia Sagas)

by Ellen Mae Franklin

Published: 2013-11-07

Kindle Edition: 444 pages

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Set on the world Tarkeenia, this story marks the struggle between god and man, magic and indefinable evil. Monsters walk the shadows and the tip of balance between dark and light, good and evil. Even on a good day, living is tenuous. Strangers become friends, uneasy alliances are tainted by betrayal...

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The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda

by Ali H. Soufan

Published: 2011-09-12

Hardcover: 608 pages

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A book that will change the way we think about al-Qaeda, intelligence, and the events that forever changed America.On September 11, 2001, FBI Special Agent Ali H. Soufan was handed a secret file. Had he received it months earlier—when it was requested—the attacks on New York and Washin...

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The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Published: 2013-10-29

Hardcover: 672 pages

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This extraordinary collection gathers the never-before-seen correspondence of a true American original—the acclaimed historian and lion of the liberal establishment, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.   An advisor to presidents, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and tireless champion of progressive ...

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Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country--and Why They Can't Make Peace

by Patrick Tyler

Published: 2012-09-18

Hardcover: 576 pages

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“Once in the military system, Israelis never fully exit,” writes the prizewinning journalist Patrick Tyler in the prologue to Fortress Israel. “They carry the military identity for life, not just through service in the reserves until age forty-nine . . . but through lifelong expectat...