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The File: A Personal History

by Timothy Garton Ash

Published: 1998-09-29

Paperback: 272 pages

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"Eloquent, aware and scrupulous . . . a rich and instructive examination of the Cold War past." --The New York TimesIn 1978 a romantic young Englishman took up residence in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later Timothy Garton As...

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That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away

by Lori Shenher

Published: 2015-10-13

Hardcover: 320 pages

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From her first assignment in 1998 to explore an increase in the number of missing women to the harrowing 2002 interrogation of convicted serial killer Robert Pickton, Lori Shenher tells a story of massive police failure—failure of the police to use the information about Pickton available...

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Giving Godhead

by Dylan Krieger

Published: 2017-02-08

Paperback: 82 pages

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Poetry. "If a girl, a virus, a horned animal, milkweed, an exchange of cash for dirty looks, the near-rhyme of greed to death, the names of all brutes, and a shroud in which was wrapped the erect ascendant all met in an ovum and, lodged deep in the earth's core, fused into a supernova. If, from that...

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The Slave Catcher's Woman

by James N. Littlefield

Published: 2014-09-29

Paperback: 206 pages

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Georgian bounty hunter Coswell Tims lives with his wife Cynthia and a kennel of well-trained and trusty bloodhounds. Returning home one day, he finds his home ransacked, his dogs killed, his loyal house servant brutally beaten and his woman, the true love of his life, is kidnapped. Coswell must now employ...

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The Slow Waltz of Turtles: A Novel

by Katherine Pancol

Published: 2016-11-01

Paperback: 432 pages

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In this mega-bestseller from France and the follow-up to The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles, a woman contends with divorce, family trouble, and even murder in her journey to discover who she really is.Fortysomething mother of two Joséphine Cortès is at a crossroads. She has just moved to a po...

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The Ninth Hour: A Novel

by Alice McDermott

Published: 2017-09-19

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionNew York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2017The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2017The Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Novels of 2017Time Magazine's Top 10 Novels of 2017NPR's Best Books of 2017Kirkus Reviews' ...

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Eternal Life: A Novel

by Dara Horn

Published: 2018-01-23

Hardcover: 256 pages

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 What would it really mean to live forever?Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can’t die. Her recent troubles?widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son?are only the latest in a litany spanning dozens of countries, scores of marria...

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Without Warning: A J.B. Collins Novel

by Joel C. Rosenberg

Published: 2017-03-14

Hardcover: 480 pages

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As he prepares to deliver the State of the Union address, the president of the United States is convinced the Islamic State is on the run, about to be crushed by American forces once and for all. But New York Times foreign correspondent J. B. Collins tells the president he’s dead wrong. ...

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The School For Dangerous Girls

by Eliot Schrefer

Published: 2010-05-01

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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Girl, Interrupted . . . as written by V. C. Andrews.Angela's parents think she's on the road to ruin because she's dating a "bad boy." After her behavior gets too much for them, they ship her off to Hidden Oak. Isolated and isolating, Hidden Oak promises to rehabilitate "dangerous girls....

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Jimmy Bluefeather

by Kim Heacox

Published: 2016-09-06

Paperback: 264 pages

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"Part quest, part rebirth, Heacox's debut novel spins a story of Alaska's Tlingit people and the land, an old man dying, and a young man learning to live." Kirkus Reviews (Starred). Winner: National Outdoor Book Award Old Keb Wisting is somewhere around ninety-five years old (he lost count...