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In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History
Published: 2004-03-01
Paperback: 288 pages
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Vivid, hilarious, and compelling, this eagerly awaited book takes its place among the travel classics. It is a thrilling tale of adventure, a comic masterpiece, and an evocative portrait of a medieval land marooned in the modern world. Eight and a half centuries ago, under Genghis Khan, th...
In the Event of My Untimely Demise
Published: 2009-05-01
Paperback: 240 pages
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In the form of letters written to his son, Brian Sack gets right to the heart of what ultimately matters most. While some insights might seem obvious (high school is probably going to suck), others are refreshingly unconventional, and all are presented with a wit that is self-deprecating,...
In the Face of Evil: Based on the life of Dina Frydman Balbien
Published: 2010-12-02
Paperback: 376 pages
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Ten-year-old Dina Frydman lives a comfortable middle class life with her family in Radom, Poland in the summer of 1939, just weeks before the Nazi invasion. The love of family and friends offer no protection against the menace of the Nazi regime that begins to siphon off the worldly and spiritual goods...
In the Face of Fear: Buddhist Wisdom for Challenging Times
Published: 2009-09-22
Paperback: 240 pages
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Most of us have never experienced such deep anxiety and uncertainty in the world as we are in these current times; this anthology of Buddhist teachings offers an antidote. While we can?t control the home foreclosures, job losses, dwindling savings, and the other myriad challenges facing ou...
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
Published: 2002-06-01
Paperback: 368 pages
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Known as "the Leopard," the president of Zaire for thirty-two years, Mobutu Sese Seko, showed all the cunning of his namesake -- seducing Western powers, buying up the opposition, and dominating his people with a devastating combination of brutality and charm. While the population was paup...
In The Forest Of Harm
Published: 2001-10-02
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
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There are no rules but one: Survive.Mary “Killer” Crow is going home to North Carolina. There the tough young Cherokee prosecutor and her two closest friends will hike a beautiful but demanding wilderness trail.They will be followed into the mountains by a man obsessed with rev...
In the Forest: A Novel
Published: 2003-04-17
Paperback: 272 pages
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In the Forest returns to the countryside of western Ireland, the vivid backdrop of Edna O'Brien's best-selling Wild Decembers. Here O'Brien unravels a classic confrontation of evil and innocence centering on the young, troubled Michael O'Kane, christened by his neighbors "the Kindershrek,"...
In the Garden of Beasts
Published: 2011
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Published: 2011
Paperback: 448 pages
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Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a...
In the Garden of Iden (The Company)
Published: 2005-12-27
Paperback: 336 pages
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This is the first novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life (for profit of course). It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immort...
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