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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

by Marilynne Robinson

Published: 2005-11-01

Paperback: 280 pages

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In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired...

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Death of An Expert Witness

by P D James

Published: 2002-05-20

Paperback: 320 pages

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The scientists who work at Hoggatt's laboratory are all experts in violent death, accustomed to the smell of the mortuary. Now the brutal murder of one of their own brings Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from Scotland Yard to the fens of East Anglia, where a murderer is waiting to strike again.

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Death Of An Intern (Laura Wolfe Mystery Series)

by Keith M. Donaldson

Published: 2011-11-10

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Laura Wolfe, a tenacious beat reporter for The Washington Star, tracks a D.C. serial killer who butchers pregnant women and steals their fetuses, dumping the naked bodies with no identification in an obscure part of the city. When Laura is shown the body of victim number two, she recognize...

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The Death of an Irish Sinner: A Peter McGarr Mystery (Peter McGarr Mysteries)

by Bartholomew Gill

Published: 2002-03-01

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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Local benefactress and celebrated biographer Mary-Jo Stanton is a supplicant to death -- left lifeless on her knees in a patch of daffodils, a barbaric religious implement wrapped tightly around her neck. A clergyman has approached Peter McGarr, requesting that the Chief Superintendent quietly investigate...

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Death of An Ordinary Man

by Glen Duncan

Published: 2005-04-04

Paperback: 320 pages

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Nathan's gravestone offers a short and hopeful summary: At rest. But Nathan is not at rest, and knows he won't be until he can find out how and why he died. A spectral spectator throughout the day of the wake, he listens to his wife, son, daughter, father and best friend, getting to know them like he...

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The Death of George Arthur Palmer

by Russ Jones

Published: 2009-03-09

Paperback: 260 pages

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As J. L. Nevins and George Arthur Palmer fish along the banks of Lake Mira Mar, they take turns telling tales of their past lives, but there was one story that George told that would change his friend's life forever. Set in Baltimore, Maryland, George's story takes the reader to the suburbs of Washington,...

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich

by Leo Tolstoy

Published: 2011-07-04

Paperback: 76 pages

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To anyone for whom Leo Tolstoy's masterpieces War and Peace and Anna Karenina have stood as giants too daunting to scale, and equally to the many readers who have devoured those novels and are hungry for more, we offer The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Translation by Robert Nesbit Bain

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Death of Kings: A Novel (Saxon Tales)

by Bernard Cornwell

Published: 2012-01-17

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The fate of a new nation rests in the hands of a reluctant warrior in this thrilling sixth volume in the acclaimed New York Times bestselling Saxon Tales series. As the ninth century wanes, Alfred the Great lies dying, his dream of a unified England in danger and his kingdom on the bri...

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The Death of the Heart

by Elizabeth Bowen

Published: 2000-05-09

Paperback: 418 pages

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The Death of the Heart is perhaps Elizabeth Bowen's best-known book. As she deftly and delicately exposes the cruelty that lurks behind the polished surfaces of conventional society, Bowen reveals herself as a masterful novelist who combines a sense of humor with a devastating gift for div...

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The Death of Vishnu: A Novel

by Manil Suri

Published: 2002-01-01

Paperback: 301 pages

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Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing: Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold: the warring housewives on the first floor, lovesick teenagers on the second, and the widower, alone and quietly grieving on the top floor of the ...