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At What Cost?: A Whistleblower's Story

by PAUL GRAUBER

Published: 2010-01-12

Hardcover: 108 pages

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In late 2004, an inspector in the aeronautical industry made a life-changing decision to inform his employer about defective fuel line brackets being shipped for installation on commercial jets. As he left his superior's office, he was grabbed from behind, punched in the head, and forced t...

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At Your Own Risk: An American Chronicle of Crisis and Capitivity in the Middle East

by Tom Sutherland, Jean Sutherland

Published: 1996-02-20

Hardcover: 448 pages

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Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp

by Gwen Roland

Published: 2006-04-15

Hardcover: 176 pages

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In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people?Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin?decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart of Louisiana's million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp. Armed with a box of crayons and a...

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The Athena Project

by Brad Thor

Published: 2010-11-23

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The world's most elite counterterrorism unit has just taken its game to an entirely new level. And not a moment too soon . . .From behind the rows of razor wire, a new breed of counterterrorism operator has emerged.�Just as skilled, just as fearsome, and just as deadly as their colleagues,...

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Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (P.S.)

by Simon Winchester

Published: 2011-11-01

Paperback: 495 pages

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Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues profoundly to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Simon Winchester makes the Atlantic come vividly alive. Spanning the ocean's story from its...

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Atlas of Impossible Longing

by Anuradha Roy

Published: 2008-06-05

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The story is of three generations of an Indian family, brilliantly told, in which a sensitive and intelligent foundling boy orphan who is casteless and without religion and Bakul, the motherless granddaughter of the house, grow up together. The boy, Mukunda, spends his time as a servant in the house...

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An Atlas of Impossible Longing: A Novel

by Anuradha Roy

Published: 2011-04-05

Paperback: 336 pages

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“This is why we read fiction at all” raves the Washington Post: Family life meets historical romance in this critically acclaimed, “gorgeous, sweeping novel” (Ms Magazine) about two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else, marking the signal American debut of an ...

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Atlas of Remote Islands

by Judith Schalansky

Published: 2010-10-05

Hardcover: 144 pages

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A rare and beautifully illustrated journey to fifty faraway worlds. There are still places on earth that are unknown. Visually stunning and uniquely designed, this wondrous book captures fifty islands that are far away in every sense-from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from...

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Atlas of Unknowns (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Tania James

Published: 2010-04-20

Paperback: 336 pages

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An utterly irresistible first novel: The story of two sisters, the yearning to disappear into another country, and the powerful desire to return to the known world. Linno is a gifted artist, despite a childhood accident that has left her badly maimed, and Anju is one of Kerala’s most promising students....

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Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

Published: 1999-08-01

Paperback: 1192 pages

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At last, Ayn Rand's masterpiece is available to her millions of loyal readers in trade paperback. With this acclaimed work and its immortal query, "Who is John Galt?", Ayn Rand found the perfect artistic form to express her vision of existence. Atlas Shrugged made Rand not only one of th...