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On Democracy (Yale Nota Bene)

by Robert A. Dahl

Published: 2000-08-11

Paperback: 224 pages

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The last half of the 20th century has been an era of democratic triumph. The main anti-democratic regimes - communist, fascist, Nazi - have disappeared, and new democracies are emerging vigorously or tentatively throughout the world. In this book, one of the most prominent political theori...

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On Dublin Street

by Samantha Young

Published: 2012-10-12

Kindle Edition: 336 pages

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Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare…   Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her s...

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On Folly Beach

by Karen White

Published: 2010-05-04

Paperback: 390 pages

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Folly Beach, South Carolina, has survived despite hurricanes and war. But it's the personal battles of Folly Beach's residents that have left the most scars, and why a young widow has been beckoned there to heal her own... To most people, Folly Beach is simply the last barrier island be...

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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

by Lisa See

Published: 1996-08-27

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Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries,...

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On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery

by Robert M M. Poole

Published: 2010-10-26

Paperback: 368 pages

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Created at the end of the Civil War, Arlington National Cemetery has become a part of the landscape as fixed in the national imagination as the White House or the Capitol building. The mansion at Arlington's heart, and the rolling hills on which it sits, had been the family plantation of R...

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (James Bond Novels)

by Ian Fleming

Published: 2003-09-02

Paperback: 272 pages

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On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker (Lisa Drew Books)

by A'Lelia Bundles

Published: 2002-01-02

Paperback: 416 pages

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On Her Own Ground is the first full-scale, definitive biography of Madam C. J. Walker -- the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist -- by her great-great-granddaughter, A'Lelia Bundles. The daughter of slaves, Madam C. J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at fourte...

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On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood (P.S.)

by Irmgard A. Hunt

Published: 2011-10-11

Kindle Edition: 306 pages

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Growing up in the beautiful mountains of Berchtesgaden -- just steps from Adolf Hitler's alpine retreat -- Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood. In her powerful, illuminating, and sometimes frightening memoir, Hunt recounts a youth lived under an evil but persuasive leader....

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On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

by Dave Grossman

Published: 1996-11-01

Paperback: 366 pages

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On Kingdom Mountain: A Novel

by Howard Frank Mosher

Published: 2008-07-15

Paperback: 288 pages

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