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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

by Mark Kurlansky

Published: 2007-01-09

Paperback: 336 pages

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“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”–The New York Times “A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster.”–Rocky Mountain NewsAward-winning author Mark...

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Big Red Tequila

by Rick Riordan

Published: 1997-06-02

Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series  Everything in Texas is bigger...even murder. Meet Tres Navarre...tequila drinker, Tai Chi master, unlicensed P.I., with a penchant for Texas-size trouble. Jackson "Tres" Navarre and his enchil...

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BIG RED TEQUILA [UNABRIDGED]

by Rick Riordan

Published: 2001

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Everything in Texas is bigger...even murder. Jackson "Tres" Navarre and his enchilada-eating cat, Robert Johnson, pull into San Antonio and find nothing waiting but trouble. Ten years ago Navarre left town and the memory of his father's murder behind him. Now he's back, looking for answers. Yet the...

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The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes [Unabridged] PlayAway Audio by Bryan Burrough (Author), James Jenner (Narrator)

by Bryan Burrough

Published: 2009

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Best-selling author Bryan Burrough reveals how four Texas oil tycoons transformed America. Rising from humble beginnings through hard work and shrewd dealings, they shifted the balance of power in American politics. While hobnobbing with movie stars and presidents, the Big Rich also created the legend...

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The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes

by Bryan Burrough

Published: 2009-01-27

Hardcover: 480 pages

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In The Big Rich, bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough chronicles the rise and fall of one of the great economic and political powerhouses of the twentieth century?Texas oil. By weaving together the epic sagas of the industry's four greatest fortunes, Burr...

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The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

by Earl Swift

Published: 2011-06-09

Hardcover: 384 pages

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From author Earl Swift comes the surprising history of the U.S. interstate system, a fascinating route through the dreams, discoveries, and protests that shaped these mighty roads. A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibilit...

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Big Russ and Me: Father and Son--Lessons of Life

by Tim Russert

Published: 2004-05-10

Hardcover: 336 pages

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"The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t remember something that Big Russ taught me." Over the last two decades, Tim Russert has become one of the most trusted and admired figures in American television journalism. Throughout his career he h...

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Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life

by Tim Russert

Published: 2005-05-11

Paperback: 352 pages

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Tim Russert's #1 New York Times bestseller -- now in paperback. Now in paperback -- the #1 best-selling Father's Day book of 2004, with over half a million copies sold in hardcover. Tim Russert, one of America's most watched and trusted news anchors? connected with readers across the na...

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis

Published: 2010-03-15

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account?character-rich and darkly humorous?of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had ...

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The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

Published: 1988-07-12

Paperback: 231 pages

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The iconic first novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times). A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds...