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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story

by Diane Ackerman

Published: 2008-09-17

Kindle Edition: 369 pages

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The New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.After their zoo was bombed, Polish zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed to save over three hundred ...

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Zorba the Greek (Faber Fiction Classics)

by Nikos Kazantzakis

Published: 2001-03

Paperback: 335 pages

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Zorro

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2005

Paperback: 400 pages

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Zorro: A Novel (P.S.)

by Isabel Allende

Published: 2006-04-25

Paperback: 416 pages

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A child of two worlds—the son of an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner and a Shoshone warrior woman—young Diego de la Vega cannot silently bear the brutal injustices visited upon the helpless in late-eighteenth-century California. And so a great hero is born—skilled i...

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Zuleika Dobson

by Max Beerbohm

Published: 2003-02

Paperback: 220 pages

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'Zuleika Dobson is a highly accomplished and superbly written book whose spirit is farcical,' said E. M. Forster. 'It is a great work--the most consistent achievement of fantasy in our time . . . so funny and charming, so iridescent yet so profound.'Originally published in 1911, Max Beerbo...

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[Re]frame: Little Inspirations for a Larger Purpose

by Sarah Evans

Published: 2012-09-06

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Sometimes you need a shot in the arm, and sometimes you need a kick in the pants. [RE]FRAME is a little bit of both, providing daily inspiration and advice for those times when you're tackling a project that seems bigger than you are. Sarah Evans writes in an easy, informal, and very tweet...

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[The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them][Dick

by Amy Dickinson

Published: 2010-04-27

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Dear Amy, First my husband told me he didn?t love me. Then he said he didn?t think he had ever really loved me. Then he left me with a baby to raise by myself. Amy, I don?t want to be a single mother. I told myself I?d never be divorced. And now here I am?exactly where I didn?t want to be! My daughter...

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"H" is for Homicide (Kinsey Millhone Mysteries)

by Sue Grafton

Published: 2010-04-01

Kindle Edition: 388 pages

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His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he'd been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside Califo...

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"I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and the Inside Story of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the Last Ride of Jimmy Hoffa

by Charles Brandt

Published: 2005-05-24

Paperback: 309 pages

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"I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt...

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"I Loved My Mother on Saturdays" and other tales from the shtetl and beyond

by Roslyn Bresnick-Perry

Published: 2009-04-01

Paperback: 196 pages

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Stories of a Jewish life from a Galitzianer shtetl to a Florida condiminium, told by an award-winning storyteller. "Her writing has a lively, spoken word rhythm, as if she is the raconteur in your living room telling tales out of school. This is the oral tradition in its truest sense: stories shaped...