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A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950

by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

Published: 2010-10-20

Paperback: 352 pages

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In the second half of the twentieth century Dominicans became New York City's largest, and poorest, new immigrant group. They toiled in garment factories and small groceries, and as taxi drivers, janitors, hospital workers, and nannies. By 1990, one of every ten Dominicans lived in New Yor...

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* * * Informative,
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Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

by Geoff Colvin

Published: 2010-05-25

Paperback: 240 pages

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Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller Asked to explain why a few people truly excel, most people offer one of two answers. The first is hard work. Yet we all know plenty of hard workers who have been doing the same job for years or decades without becoming great. The other poss...

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The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith

by Joan Schenkar

Published: 2009-12-08

Hardcover: 704 pages

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Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling� as that of her favorite "hero-criminal,"�talented Tom Ripley. In this revolutionary biography, Joan Schenkar paints a riveting portrait, from Highsmith's birth in Texas to Hitchc...

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The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

Published: 2008-06-17

Paperback: 288 pages

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"Tom Ripley is one of the most interesting characters in world literature." ?Anthony Minghella, director of the 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath. Here, in this first Ripley novel, we are introduced to suav...

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TALES FROM DA HOOD - HARD COVER

by NIKKI TURNER

Published: 2006

Hardcover: 282 pages

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Tales from Jabba's Palace (Star Wars.)

Published: 1995-12-01

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Tales from Margaritaville

by Jimmy Buffett

Published: 2002-06-03

Paperback: 264 pages

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Margaritaville may not appear on a map, but it does exist--at least in the brilliantly creative, sometimes slightly skewed imagination of Jimmy Buffett. Tales from Margaritaville is a collection of short stories (some purely fiction, some based in truth) so vividly packed with restless dre...

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Tales From Outer Suburbia

by Shaun Tan

Published: 2009-02-01

Hardcover: 96 pages

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Shaun Tan follows THE ARRIVAL with a collection of off-the-wall tales combined with his genius illustrations in a unique hybrid format that will build on our current success.An exchange student who's really an alien, a secret room that becomes the perfect place for a quick escape, a typi...

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Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses

by Ted Hughes

Published: 1999-03-30

Paperback: 272 pages

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A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as a classic in its own right, as the best rering of Ovid in generations, and as a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. The Meta...

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Tales from the Bed: A Memoir

by Jenifer Estess, Valerie Estess

Published: 2005-11-15

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Jenifer Estess is a beautiful, successful, thirtysomething New Yorker with dreams of starting her own family when she is diagnosed with ALS, a fatal disease. Doctors tell her to max out her credit cards and prepare to die. That is precisely when Jenifer starts to live -- dreaming deeper, w...