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City of Thieves (Japanese Edition)

by David Benioff

Published: 2010-08

Hardcover: 355 pages

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City of Thieves: A Novel

by David Benioff

Published: 2008-05-15

Hardcover: 258 pages

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From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour and When the Nines Roll Over and co-creator of the HBO series Game of Thrones, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival â?? and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime. During the Nazisâ?? brutal siege of Leningrad,...

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City of Tranquil Light: A Novel

by Bo Caldwell

Published: 2011-10-25

Paperback: 320 pages

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"What ardent, dazzling souls emerge from these American missionaries in China . . . A beautiful, searing book that leaves an indelible presence in the mind." ?Patricia Hampl, author of The Florist's Daughter Will Kiehn is seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest when, ...

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City of Veils: A Novel

by Zoë Ferraris

Published: 2011-08-07

Paperback: 416 pages

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Finding Nouf's Katya Hijazi and Nayir Sharqi return for another thrilling, fast-paced mystery that provides a rare and intimate look into women's lives in the Middle East.Women in Saudi Arabia are expected to lead quiet lives circumscribed by Islamic law and tradition. But Katya, one of th...

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City of Women

by David R. Gillham

Published: 2012-08-07

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Whom do you trust, whom do you love, and who can be saved?  It is 1943—the height of the Second World War—and Berlin has essentially become a city of women. Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model German soldier’s wife: She goes to work every day, does as much ...

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A Civil Action

by Jonathan Harr

Published: 2011-08-10

Kindle Edition: 514 pages

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This true story of an epic courtroom showdown, where two of the nation's largest corporations were accused of causing the deaths of children from water contamination, was a #1 national bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.   Described as “a page-turner filled...

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Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

Published: 2011-12-06

Paperback: 32 pages

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Sparked by Thoreau s outrage at American slavery and the American-Mexican war, Civil Disobedience is a call for every citizen to value his conscience above his government. Within this 19th century essay, Thoreau explains government of any sort including democracy does not possess more wisdom or justice...

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The Civil War Trilogy: Gods and Generals / The Killer Angels / The Last Full Measure

by Michael Shaara, Jeff Shaara

Published: 1999-04-27

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSbyMICHAEL SHAARA and JEFF SHAARA THE CIVIL WAR TRILOGYGODS AND GENERALSTHE KILLER ANGELSTHE LAST FULL MEASURE?Brilliant does not even begin to describe the Shaara gift.??The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionAuthor Jeff M. Shaara rounds out the Civil War Trilogy sta...

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Civil War Wives

by Carol Berkin

Published: 2009-08-22

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  In these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day.  Thei...

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Civilization: The West and the Rest

by Niall Ferguson

Published: 2011-11-01

Hardcover: 432 pages

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From one of our most renowned historians, Civilization is the definitive history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance-and the "killer applications" that made this improbable ascent possible. The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most impor...