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In the Pond

by Ha Jin

Published: 2002-01-03

Paperback: 192 pages

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Fiction. Asian Studies. Winner of the Hemingway/PEN Award for first fiction for his story collection OCEAN OF WORDS, and of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction for UNDER THE RED FLAG, Ha Jin is a writer of stark power, simple beauty and poignant irony. IN THE POND is a close, unsentimental...

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* * * * Informative,
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In the Presence of My Enemies

by Gracia Burnham

Published: 2010-01-01

Paperback: 334 pages

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In the Presence of My Enemies, the gripping true story of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham’s year as hostages in the Philippine jungle, was a New York Times best seller and has sold nearly 350,000 copies. Now releasing in trade softcover for the first time, this updated ed...

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In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect

by Ronald Kessler

Published: 2010-08-03

Paperback: 304 pages

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Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secr...

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In the Province of Saints : A Novel

by Thomas O'Malley

Published: 2005-08-24

Hardcover: 320 pages

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DESCRIPTION: An unforgettable first novel about a young boy growing up in rural Ireland, in the shadow of a dark secret. The Irish countryside of the late 1970s is a place still haunted by folklore and legend, by ghosts who rise from the fields on misty nights, and by old secrets and even older hatreds....

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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

by Gabor Mate M.D.

Published: 2010-01-05

Paperback: 520 pages

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Based on Gabor Maté's two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with the severely addicted on Vancouver's skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts radically reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Maté presents addiction...

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* * * * Informative,
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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir (P.S.)

by Neil White

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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"A remarkable story of a young man's loss of everything he deemed important, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society's most dreaded outcasts." —John Grisham "Hilarious, astonishing, and deeply moving." —John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good ...

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In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir

by Neil White

Published: 2009-06-01

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Daddy is going to camp. That's what I told my children. A child psychologist suggested it. ?Words like prison and jail conjure up dangerous images for children,? she explained. But it wasn?t camp . . . Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved?n...

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In the Sea There are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari

by Fabio Geda

Published: 2011-08-09

Hardcover: 224 pages

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"Inspiring" --O Magazine " This gripping, strangely sweet tale....captures the young man’s open-hearted tone just right.....Reading of Akbari’s efforts to find a better life — alone and at an age when children in our country can’t even drive yet — will leave you shaken, but h...

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In the Shadow of Gotham

by Stefanie Pintoff

Published: 2009-04-28

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Dobson, New York, 1905.Detective Simon Ziele lost his fiancée in the General Slocum ferry disaster—a thousand perished on that summer day in 1904 when an onboard fire burned the boat down in the waters of the East River. Still reeling from the tragedy, Ziele transferred to a police dep...

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In the Shadow of Gotham ($9.99 Ed.)

by Stefanie Pintoff

Published: 2011-06-07

Paperback: 400 pages

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Stefanie Pintoff's acclaimed and award-winning debut is the taut historical tale of Detective Simon Ziele, a man who lost his fiancée in the 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster and thereafter flees New York City for Dobson, New York, to escape the memories of her death. But month...