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Day of the Locust

by Nathanael West

Published: 1981-06

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The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)

by Nathanael West

Published: 1983-09-06

Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages

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The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, its overarching themes deal with the alienation and desperation of a broad group of odd individuals who exist at the fringes of the Hollywood movie industry.In...

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The Day the Falls Stood Still

by Cathy Marie Buchanan

Published: 2009-08-25

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Steeped in the intriguing history of Niagara Falls, this epic love story is as rich, spellbinding, and majestic as the falls themselves. 1915. The dawn of the hydroelectric power era in Niagara Falls. Seventeen-year-old Bess Heath has led a sheltered existence as the youngest daughter o...

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Day the Falls Stood Still, The--B&N Recommends Edition

by Cathy Marie Buchanan

Published: 2010-07-06

Paperback: 320 pages

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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

by Jim DeFede

Published: 2003-08-14

Paperback: 244 pages

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The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from AwayWhen 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town...

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The Day We Lost the H-Bomb: Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History

by Barbara Moran

Published: 2009-04-28

Hardcover: 336 pages

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In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War's biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy ...

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The Day We Met

by Barbara Bretton

Published: 1999-11-01

Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages

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A Day with a Perfect Stranger

by David Gregory

Published: 2006-07-18

Hardcover: 112 pages

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What if a fascinating stranger knew you better than you know yourself?When her husband comes home with a farfetched story about eating dinner with someone he believes to be Jesus, Mattie Cominsky thinks this may signal the end of her shaky marriage. Convinced that Nick is, at best, turning...

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Daybreak

by Belva Plain

Published: 1995-03-01

Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages

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The doctor's office is cool, white, sterile. But the doctor's words are searing: blood tests prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Margaret and Arthur Crawfield's beloved, dying son is not their child. Now they must face Peter's death and and the shock of having a son they have never met...

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Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power

by Fred Kaplan

Published: 2008-01-29

Hardcover: 256 pages

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America's power is in decline, its foreign policy adrift, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past eight years is well-known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. In Daydream Believers, celebrated Slate column...