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The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can Do About It

by Angelo M. Codevilla

Published: 2010-09-12

Paperback: 147 pages

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In this profound and incisive work, Angelo M. Codevilla introduces readers to the Ruling Class, the group of bipartisan political elites who run America. This Ruling Class, educated at prestigious universities and convinced of its own superiority, has everything to gain by raising taxes and expanding...

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The Rum Diary : A Novel

by Hunter S. Thompson

Published: 1999-11-01

Paperback: 224 pages

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Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary—a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book—is Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean.Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson,...

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* * * * Interesting,
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Rumo: And His Miraculous Adventures

by Walter Moers

Published: 2007-08-28

Paperback: 684 pages

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Set in the land of Zamonia, this exuberant, highly original fantasy from Walter Moers features an unlikely hero. Rumo is a little Wolperting - a domesticated creature somewhere between a deer and a dog - who will one day become the greatest hero in the history of Zamonia. Armed wit...

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Rumor Has It: In a town this small, a secret is hard to keep

by Jill Mansell

Published: 2010-05-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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Would you be tempted? Newly single, Tilly Cole impulsively accepts a job offer in a small town as a "Girl Friday." Fun job, country house, fresh start, why not? But soon she finds herself in a hotbed of gossip, intrigue, and rampant rivalry for the town's most desirable bachelor-Jack Lucas...

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Rumors: A Luxe Novel (The Luxe)

by Anna Godbersen

Published: 2009-02-01

Paperback: 448 pages

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True love. False friends. Scandalous gossip. Welcome back to Manhattan, 1899. As rumors fly about the untimely demise of New York's brightest star, Elizabeth Holland, all eyes are on those closest to the dearly departed: her sister, Diana, the family's only hope for redemption; Henry ...

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Rumpole and the Reign of Terror

by John Mortimer

Published: 2007-10-30

Paperback: 192 pages

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John Mortimer's bestselling barrister is back, in his most timely case yet Just in case Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders gave fans the impression that the Great Defender was resting on his laurels, his new case sends him at full sail into our panicky new world. Rumpole is asked to d...

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Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish

by Tom Shachtman

Published: 2007-05-29

Paperback: 304 pages

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Rumspringa is Tom Shachtman’s celebrated look at a littleknown Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa—the period of “running around” that begins for their youth at age sixteen. During this time, Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, ...

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Run

by Ann Patchett

Published: 2007-09-25

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an argument in a blinding New England snowstorm i...

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Run

by Blake Crouch

Published: 2011-03-19

Paperback: 288 pages

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For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Thomas Harris...picture this: a landscape of American genocide...5 D A Y S A G O...A rash of bizarre murders swept the country…Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected. A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike....

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Run Afoul (Wiki Coffin Mysteries)

by Joan Druett

Published: 2006-10-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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U.S. Exploring Expedition linguist Wiki Coffin sails with the famous convoy of ships toward Brazil, with no idea of the amazing events the fates and the winds have set in store for him.As the great flagship Vincennes, under the dubious command of eccentric captain Charles Wilkes, leads the...