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A Thousand Cuts: A Novel

by Simon Lelic

Published: 2010-03-04

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A stunning debut novel that unravels the hidden story behind a school shooting It should be an open-and-shut case. Samuel Szajkowski, a recently hired history teacher, walked into a school assembly with a gun and murdered three students and a colleague before turning the weapon on himse...

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Thousand Days in Venice

by Marlena De Blasi

Published: 2003-03-20

Paperback: 256 pages

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When Fernando spots her in a Venice cafe and knows immediately that she is The One, Marlena de Blasi is caught off guard. A divorced American woman travelling through Italy, she thought she was satisfied with her life. Yet within a few months, she quits her job as a chef, sells her house, kisses her...

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* * * * * Romantic,
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A Thousand Days in Venice (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Marlena De Blasi

Published: 2003-06-03

Paperback: 304 pages

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He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorced American chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks she is incapable of intimacy, that her h...

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* * * * Dark,
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown

by Julia Scheeres

Published: 2011-10-11

Hardcover: 320 pages

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?I love socialism, and I?m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I?d take a thousand with me.?  ?Jim Jones, September 6, 1975 In 1954, a pastor named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church. He was a charismatic preacher with idealistic...

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Thousand Pieces of Gold (Asian Voices)

by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Published: 1989-05-01

Paperback: 308 pages

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This masterful biographical novel?which has sold more than 100,000 copies?tells the true life story of Lalu Nathoy, a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn tells the gripping tale of how Lalu struggled out...

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Thousand Pieces of Gold (Bluestreak)

by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Published: 2004-08-25

Paperback: 352 pages

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Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper,...

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A Thousand Splendid Suns (Chinese Edition)

by Khaled Hosseini

Published: 2008-03

Paperback: 383 pages

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Traditional Chinese edition of A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini (the Kite Runner) has occupied a spot on the New York Times bestselling fiction list for over 40 weeks.

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* * * * * Informative,
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A Thousand Splendid Suns Illustrated Edition

by Khaled Hosseini

Published: 2009-10-29

Hardcover: 384 pages

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This deluxe illustrated edition of A Thousand Splendid Suns is filled with striking and memorable photographs that bring Khaled Hosseini's compelling story to life. Since its publication in 2007, A Thousand Splendid Suns has shipped more than three million copies. The bestselling adult nov...

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* * * * * Beautiful,
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Thousand Splendid Suns Postcard Packs

by Khaled Hosseini

Published: 2007-05-22

Paperback: 0 pages

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* * * * Informative,
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A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

Published: 2008-10-01

Paperback: 412 pages

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Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and...