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Kockroach: A Novel

by Tyler Knox

Published: 2007-01-01

Hardcover: 368 pages

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In Kockroach, a wholly original work of literary noir, Tyler Knox brilliantly turns Kafka's The Metamorphosis on its head It is the mid-1950s, and in a fleabag hotel off Times Square, Kockroach, perfectly content with life as an insect, awakens to discover that somehow he's become, of a...

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The Kommandant's Girl

by Pam Jenoff

Published: 2007-02-20

Paperback: 400 pages

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Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft

by Thor Heyerdahl

Published: 2010-03-01

Paperback: 304 pages

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?One of the great adventures of our time.??Life ?Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? ?Reply at once.? That is how six brave and inquisitive men came to seek a dangerous path to test a scientific th...

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The Koran: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

by Michael Cook

Published: 2000-06-15

Paperback: 164 pages

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The Koran has constituted a remarkably resilient core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Cook provides a lucid and direct account of the significance of the Koran both in the modern world and i...

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* * * * Fun,
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Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion

by Michael Levy

Published: 2011-07-05

Paperback: 256 pages

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An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in fluxIn September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city...

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* * * * Interesting,
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.)

by Simon Winchester

Published: 2005-07-05

Paperback: 416 pages

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Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt ...

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Kreutzer Sonata

by Leo Tolstoy

Published: 2012-04-24

Paperback: 24 pages

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This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde...

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Krik? Krak!

by Edwidge Danticat

Published: 1996-04-02

Paperback: 224 pages

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When Haitians tell a story, they say "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer "Krak!" In Krik? Krak! In her second novel, Edwidge Danticat establishes herself as the latest heir to that narrative tradition with nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian lif...

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Kristin Hannah CD Collection 2: Summer Island, True Colors

by Kristin Hannah

Published: 2010-09-29

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Summer Island: Thirty-four year old Ruby Bridge is a not-too-successful comedienne who uses her mother, a nationally-syndicated "moral and spiritual counselor" as the main fodder for her cynical, rather bitter humor. Her mother Nora, long divorced from Ruby's father, is a woman whose past is just about...

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* * * Optimistic,
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Kristin Hannah CD Collection: Comfort and Joy, Magic Hour, Firefly Lane

by Kristin Hannah

Published: 2009-07-29

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Comfort and Joy:Joy Candellaro used to love Christmas more than any other time of the year. Now, as the holiday approaches, she finds herself at loose ends. So without telling anyone, she buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the rural Northwest. Yet Joy's best-laid plans go terribly ...