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Trent's Last Case

by E C Bentley

Published: 2008-01-12

Paperback: 240 pages

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When a scheming American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country house, two immediate matters confound amateur detective Philip Trent: why is the dead man not wearing his false teeth and why is his young widow seemingly relieved at his death? The newly widowed Mabel Manderson -...

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Tres Ratones Ciegos / Three Blind Mice (Spanish Edition) (Spanish Edition)

by Agatha Christie

Published: 2009-11-09

Paperback: 254 pages

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A blinding snowstorm and a homicidal maniac traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. The plot later takes on a claustrophobic feeling that leads into an unexpected end. Out of this deceptively simple set up, Agatha Christie fashioned one of her most ingenious puzzlers that lat...

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Tres tristes tigres: Novela (Esenciales) (Spanish Edition)

by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Published: 2008-12-01

Paperback: 511 pages

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Cabrera Infante aborda, de manera �nica y brillante, varios de sus amores, de sus obsesiones, de sus temas: La Habana, el ingl�s, la literatura, la jerga de la cuidad, las habaneras, el cine, la m�sica y la "nostalgia de la noche" Ciertas novelas de horror y de intriga llevan la indic...

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Trespass: A Novel

by Valerie Martin

Published: 2007-09-18

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Chloe Dale’s life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on sabbatical, is working at home on his book about the Crusades; and Chloe is busy creating illustrations for a special edition of Emily Bront�̵...

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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land

by Amy Irvine

Published: 2009-03-31

Paperback: 384 pages

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"Trespass might as well be Desert Solitaire's literary heir . . . It's hard to imagine a personal history more transporting that this one."?Judith Lewis, Los Angels Times Book Review  Trespass is the story of one woman's struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness act...

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Triage: A Novel

by Scott Anderson

Published: 1999-11-23

Paperback: 240 pages

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In this critically acclaimed debut novel, the aftermath of war in all its power is revealed in the lives of survivors and their loved ones. Mark, a young war photographer, returns to New York after being injured in a brush fire. Shell-shocked, torn apart by grief and guilt, he finds that ...

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Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition

by Richard Parry

Published: 2002-01-29

Paperback: 336 pages

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?An extraordinary real-life adventure of men battling the elements and themselves, told with ice-cold precision.??Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In the dark years following the Civil War, America's foremost Arctic explorer, Charles Francis Hall, became a figure of national pride when he em...

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The Trial of Socrates

by I. F. Stone

Published: 1989

Paperback: 304 pages

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In unraveling the long-hidden issues in the most famous free speech case of all time, Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek civilization and gives us an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to our society today.

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The Trial

by Franz Kafka

Published: 1999-05-25

Paperback: 304 pages

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Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an ...

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The Trial

by Larry D. Thompson

Published: 2011-03-29

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A small town attorney is forced to battle a giant drug company in an attempt to save his daughter's life.  She had volunteered for a clinical trial of a drug that both the company and the FDA knew was dangerous.  When his daughter's liver starts to fail, and he realizes a liver transplan...