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The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong.

by Laurence J. Dr. Peter

Published: 1972

Mass Market Paperback: 170 pages

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Peter the Great

by Robert K. Massie

Published: 1986-01-12

Mass Market Paperback: 960 pages

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"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAgainst the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ag...

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Peterson First Guide to Clouds and Weather

by Jay Pasachoff, Vincent J. Schaefer

Published: 1998-02-20

Paperback: 128 pages

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This Peterson First guide contains easy-to-understand answers to questions about the weather, such as why the sky is blue, what makes it rain, and what causes rainbows. The book also features 116 color photographs that show how to identify clouds, with explanations of what each cloud type ...

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Petey

by Ben Mikaelsen

Published: 2010-07-28

Hardcover: 280 pages

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In 1922 Petey, who has cerebral palsy, is misdiagnosed and institutionalized. Sixty years later, still in the institution, he befriends a boy and shares with him the joys of life.

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Petey (new cover)

by Ben Mikaelsen

Published: 2010-06-22

Paperback: 256 pages

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In 1922, at the age of two,�Petey's distraught parents commit him to the state's insane asylum, unaware that their son is actually suffering from severe cerebral palsy. Bound by his wheelchair and struggling to communicate with the people around him, Petey�finds a way to remain kind and ge...

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Petroplague

by Amy Rogers

Published: 2011-10-26

Paperback: 336 pages

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What if bacteria turned all the gasoline in Los Angeles into vinegar? Carmageddon doesn't begin to describe it; Petroplague does.UCLA graduate student Christina Gonzalez wanted to use biotechnology to free America from its dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Instead, an act of eco-terroris...

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Petropolis

by Anya Ulinich

Published: 2007-02-15

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she�s a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States, and leaves Sasha to navigate adolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her overbearing mother. Sasha falls in love with an art sc...

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Petty Magic: Being the Memoirs and Confessions of Miss Evelyn Harbinger, Temptress and Troublemaker

by Camille DeAngelis

Published: 2010-10-05

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Evelyn Harbinger sees nothing wrong with a one-night stand. At 149 years old, Eve may look like she bakes oatmeal cookies in the afternoon and dozes in her rocking chair in the evening, but once the gray hair and wrinkles are traded for jet-black tresses and porcelain skin, she can still t...

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Pewter Angels (Tales from the Throne)

by Henry K. Ripplinger

Published: 2010-04-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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The summer of 1956 starts out like any other summer for 15-year-old Henry Pederson: hot, long and boring. That all changes when Jenny Sarsky and her family move into the house three doors down. From the moment their eyes meet, an earthly attraction unites their hearts while the spiritual e...

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Peyton Place

by Grace Metalious

Published: 1999-03-04

Paperback: 384 pages

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When Grace Metalious's debut novel about the dark underside of a small, respectable New England town was published in 1956, it quickly soared to the top of the bestseller lists. A landmark in twentieth-century American popular culture, Peyton Place spawned a successful feature film and a l...