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The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America

by Mike McIntyre

Published: 2014-03-02

Paperback: 260 pages

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A Wall Street Journal bestseller."Could you survive a cross-country trip relying only on the kindness of strangers? Well, Mike McIntyre did. He put our country to the test, and what he found out sure surprised me."--Oprah Winfrey Stuck in a job he no longer found fulfilling, journalist Mik...

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Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler

Published: 2003

Paperback: 264 pages

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The visionary authorâ??s masterpiece pulls usâ??along with her Black female heroâ??through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her ...

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Kindred Spirits

by Sarah Strohmeyer

Published: 2012-07-03

Paperback: 326 pages

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After one fateful PTA meeting, four young mothers—Lynne, Mary Kay, Beth, and Carol—discovered they had more in common than they ever thought possible. Meeting once a month, the women would share laughs and secrets, toasting to their blossoming friendship with the clink of their sacred ...

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King & Raven

by Cary James

Published: 1997-05

Mass Market Paperback: 533 pages

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Forced to watch as Arthur's knights rape and murder his beloved sister, young Raven vows never to be helpless again, and when he demands retribution for the crime, he is taken on as part of the court in a fantastical story of romance, adventure, and revenge. Reprint. K.

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King Dork

by Frank Portman

Published: 2006-04-11

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Tom Henderson (a.k.a. King Dork, Chi-mo, Hender-fag, and Sheepie) is a typical American high school loser until he discovers the book, The Catcher in the Rye, that will change the world as he knows it. When Tom discovers his deceased father’s copy of the Salinger classic, he finds hi...

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King Lear (Dover Thrift Editions)

by William Shakespeare

Published: 1994-06-16

Paperback: 144 pages

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Powerful tragedy of an aging king, betrayed by his daughters, robbed of his kingdom, descending into madness. Perhaps the bleakest of Shakespeare's tragic dramas, it explores themes of filial ingratitude, injustice, wretchedness and the meaninglessness of life with unsurpassed power and de...

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King Lear (The Pelican Shakespeare)

by William Shakespeare

Published: 2000-02-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century. Each volume features: Authoritative, reliable texts High quality in...

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King Leary

by Paul Quarrington

Published: 2007-11-28

Paperback: 240 pages

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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

by Adam Hochschild

Published: 1999-10

Paperback: 366 pages

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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately sla...

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The King of America

by Samantha Gillison

Published: 2004

Hardcover: 240 pages

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The King of America traces the short, brilliant life of Stephen Hesse, firstborn son of one of America’s wealthiest, most powerful men—yet Stephen’s distinguished paternal lineage and the great privilege it has conferred on him are at odds with the working-class background of his mot...