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Evolution's Captain : The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World

by Peter Nichols

Published: 2003-10-01

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Evolution's Captain is the story of a visionary but now forgotten English naval officer but for whom the 'Darwinian Revolution' would never have occurred. When Captain Robert FitzRoy, the twenty-six-year-old captain of the H.M.S. Beagle, set out for Tierra del Fuego in the fall of 1831, he...

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Ex and the Single Girl

by Lani Diane Rich

Published: 2005-11-14

Paperback: 257 pages

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Adriana Trigiani meets Jane Green in this irresistible new novel about a family of southern women who have rotten luck with men.Portia Fallon calls it PTEor the Penis Teflon Effect. It's the way all the women in her family deflect men like ping pong balls. No man has ever stuc...

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The Ex Files: A Novel About Four Women and Faith

by Victoria Christopher Murray

Published: 2007-06-19

Paperback: 388 pages

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There are four ways a woman can handle heartbreak. She can fall apart, seek revenge, turn cold, or move on. The Ex Files is the story of these four women:When Kendall Stewart finds her husband and her sister in bed together, she vows to never let anyone get that close again. But when she i...

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Ex Libris

by Anne Fadiman

Published: 1999

Hardcover: 144 pages

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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

by Anne Fadiman

Published: 2000-11-25

Paperback: 162 pages

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Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only w...

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The Ex-Mrs. Hedgefund

by Jill Kargman

Published: 2009-04-16

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In The Right Address, Jill Kargman went behind the doors of New York's most prestigious building. In Wolves in Chic Clothing, the junior jet set took center stage. In Momzillas, it was hyper-competitive Upper East Side mothers. And now, in The Ex- Mrs. Hedgefund, Kargman creates a hilariou...

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The Excalibur Murders: A Merlin Investigation

by J.M.C. Blair

Published: 2008-07-01

Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages

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Merlin makes a great investigator?and it only looks like magic. Merlin is no magician, merely a scholar and advisor to King Arthur. But after the supposedly magical Stone of Bran is stolen?along with the legendary sword Excalibur?and one of Arthur's squires is brutally murdered during the ...

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Excellent Women

by Barbara Pym

Published: 1988-05-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the...

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Excellent Women (Penguin Classics)

by Barbara Pym

Published: 2006-12-26

Kindle Edition: 249 pages

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Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the...

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The Exception

by Christian Jungersen

Published: 2008-07-08

Paperback: 502 pages

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An internationally bestselling thriller, The Exception dissects the nature of evil and the paranoia that drives ordinary people to commit unthinkable acts. Four women work together for a small nonprofit in Copenhagen that disseminates information on genocide. When two of them receive death...