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Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York
Published: 2012-02-07
Hardcover: 448 pages
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When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the astounding gall to try to shut down the brothels, gambling joints, and after-hours saloons. This is the story of how TR took on Manhattan vice . . . and vice won. In the 1890s, New York City was A...
The Island of Whispers
Published: 2009-06-12
Paperback: 236 pages
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Set on a rocky islet lying in the shadow of the Forth Railway Bridge, this superbly written tale centres on the creatures who inhabit it - a huge colony of rats who have made their home beneath the crumbling ruins of the monastery. 'Home' is hardly the word for the native black creatures however, who...
An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
Published: 2008-04-28
Paperback: 336 pages
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"He has captured in full the life of the island."—Washington Post Book World A classic of Chesapeake Bay literature, Tom Horton's An Island Out of Time chronicles the three years Horton and his family spent on Smith Island, a marshy archipelago in the middle of Maryland's famous estuary....
The Island Walkers
Published: 2005-04-11
Paperback: 448 pages
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A powerful first novel about a family that slips from fortune’s favor and a town broken by the forces of modernityAcross a bend of Ontario’s Attawan River lies the Island, a working-class neighborhood of whitewashed houses and vine-freighted fences, black willows and decaying ...
The Island
Published: 2007-07-01
Paperback: 480 pages
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The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ripped from her husband and two yo...
The Island
Published: 2011-07-07
Paperback: 416 pages
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The Island
Published: 2012-05-01
Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages
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Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride-to-be, she is weathering the storms of excitement and chaos, tears and joy....
Islands in the Stream : A Novel
Published: 2003-07-22
Hardcover: 448 pages
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The Islands of Divine Music by
Published: 2008-10-28
Hardcover: 256 pages
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Isle of Dogs
Published: 2002-06-06
Paperback: 544 pages
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