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The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Graham Greene

Published: 2004-08-31

Paperback: 180 pages

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Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel o...

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Soldiers of God: With the Mujahidin in Afghanistan

by Robert D. Kaplan

Published: 1990-01-30

Hardcover: 258 pages

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The Secret Garden (Illustrated by Charles Robinson)

by Francis Hodgson Burnett

Published: 2016-01-04

Paperback: 174 pages

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One of the most beloved children’s stories of all time “The Secret Garden” is arguably Francis Hodgson Burnett’s most famous novel. First serialized in the fall of 1910 and in book form in 1911, “The Secret Garden” is the story of Mary Lennox, a sick young girl living in India with her parents....

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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (P.S.)

by Lucette Lagnado

Published: 2008-07-01

Paperback: 368 pages

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Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes deals and trades at Shepherd's Hotel and at the dark bar of the Nile Hilton. After the fall of King Farouk and the rise of the Nasser dictatorshi...

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The Inhabited World

by David Long

Published: 2007-07-02

Paperback: 288 pages

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Part psychological drama, part mystery, part modern ghost story, The Inhabited World is a deeply affecting novel of love, loss, and longing. Evan Molloy has been dead for nearly ten years when the mysterious, fragile Maureen moves into the bungalow near Puget Sound where he once lived. Cau...

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NORA: The Real Life of Molly Bloom

by Brenda Maddox

Published: 1988-06-16

Hardcover: 472 pages

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In 1904, having known each other for only three months, a young woman named Nora Barnacle and a not yet famous writer named James Joyce left Ireland together for Europe -- unwed. So began a deep and complex partnership, and eventually a marriage, which endured for thirty-seven years. This ...

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Mountain City

by Gregory Martin

Published: 2001-06-04

Paperback: 204 pages

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By the end of Gregory Martin's unsentimental but affecting memoir, only thirty-one people live in remote Mountain City, Nevada, and none of them are children. The town's abandoned mines are testimony to the cycle of promise, exploitation, abandonment, and attrition that has been the repeat...

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Mendel's Dwarf

by Simon Mawer

Published: 1999-07-01

Paperback: 336 pages

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Like his great, great uncle, the early geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert is struggling to unlock the secrets of heredity. But Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he is afflicted with achondroplasia—he's a dwarf. He's also a man desperate ...

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World of Bees: A Book of Puzzles

by Dannelle F Gay

Published: 2017-08-11

Paperback: 54 pages

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This is a book of puzzles for the fan of the simple creature: the bee. Pictures, words, poems and quotes all dedicated to this tinhy little miracle worker.

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The Assault

by Harry Mulisch

Published: 1986-03-12

Paperback: 192 pages

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It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides home on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by burning down the home of an innocent family; only twelve-year-old Anton survives.Based ...