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Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the Nation

by Scott Farris

Published: 2011-12-06

Hardcover: 352 pages

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As the 2012 presidential campaign begins, Almost President profiles a dozen men who have run for the American presidency and lost?but who, even in defeat, have had a greater impact on American history than many of those who have served as president. Scott Farris tells us the stories of leg...

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Almost Single

by Advaita Kala

Published: 2009-02-24

Paperback: 276 pages

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In a city where old is meeting new, daughters are surprising mothers, and love is breaking all the rules, this heartfelt and wickedly funny cross-cultural debut novel introduces a smart, irreverent young woman searching for independence and matrimony in a culture bound by tradition.Between...

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Aloft

by Chang-rae Lee

Published: 2005-03-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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The New York Times–bestselling novel by the critically acclaimed author of Native Speaker and A Gesture Life. At 59, Jerry Battle is coasting through life. His favorite pastime is flying his small plane high above Long Island. Aloft, he can escape from the troubles that pla...

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The Aloha Quilt (An Elm Creek Quilts Novel)

by Jennifer Chiaverini

Published: 2011-01-04

Paperback: 484 pages

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With Elm Creek Quilt Camp closed for the winter, Bonnie heads to Lahaina, Maui, to help her friend Claire launch a quilter's retreat. There, watching breathtaking sunsets over sparkling waters, she plans courses and learns the history of Hawaiian quilting. But life isn't all beautiful vist...

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Alone

by Lisa Gardner

Published: 2005-12-27

Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages

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Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger an...

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Alone in Berlin

by Hans Fallada

Published: 2010-05-01

Paperback: 588 pages

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Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is the gripping tale of an ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule. This Penguin Classics edition contains an afterword by Geoff Wilkes, as well as facsimiles of the original Gestapo file which inspired the novel. Berlin,...

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Alone in the Classroom

by Elizabeth Hay

Published: 2011-04-26

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to the present day....

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Alone: A Novel of Suspense

Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages

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Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man's finger tightens on the trigger and ...

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Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean

by Richard Logan, Tere Duperrault Fassbender

Published: 2011-07-05

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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Alone is the extraordinary account of Terry Jo Duperrault, who, at age eleven, survived four days on a raft in the middle of the ocean after her family was brutally murdered aboard a chartered sailboat.

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Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross Novels)

by James Patterson

Published: 1993-12-01

Mass Market Paperback: 528 pages

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Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series of the past twenty-five years, now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads"Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. ...