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Code Name: Papa: My Extraordinary Life while Hiding in Plain Sight

by John Murray, Sharon Murray, Abby Jones

Published: 2015-09-30

Paperback: 326 pages

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Who’d have thought a bright, but fairly ordinary young man from middle class America who got just above average grades, dated the same girl throughout high school and went to church most Sundays, would grow up to eventually head a very secretive band of brave individuals-both men and wom...

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The Visit

by Friedrich Durrenmatt

Published: 2010-10-05

Paperback: 112 pages

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Friedrich Dürrenmatt is considered one of the most significant playwrights of our time. During the years of the Cold War, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. In this ALTA National Translation Award?winning new translation of what...

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The Physicists

by Friedrich Durrenmatt

Published: 2010-10-05

Paperback: 112 pages

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The Physicists is a provocative and darkly comic satire about life in modern times, by one of Europe’s foremost dramatists and the author of the internationally celebrated The Visit. The world’s greatest physicist, Johann Wilhelm Möbius, is in a madhouse, haunted by recurring visions ...

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Charlatans

by Robin Cook

Published: 2017-08-22

Hardcover: 448 pages

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The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook. Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from pa...

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The River of Consciousness

by Oliver Sacks

Published: 2017-10-24

Hardcover: 256 pages

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From the best-selling author of Gratitude, On the Move, and Musicophilia, a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. Oliver Sacks...

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Accounting All-in-One For Dummies (For Dummies Series)

by Kenneth Boyd, Lita Epstein, Mark P. Holtzman, Frimette Kass-Shraibman, Maire Loughran, Vijay S. Sampath, John A. Tracy, Tage C. Tracy, Jill Gilbert Welytok

Published: 2014-03-10

Paperback: 744 pages

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A one-stop accounting reference Packed with vital information culled from the extensive For Dummies accounting, bookkeeping, and auditing libraries, Accounting All-in-One For Dummies is a powerful, one-stop reference. Accounting All-in-One For Dummies is a comprehensive resource on a vari...

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The Black Painting: A Novel

by Neil Olson

Published: 2018-01-09

Hardcover: 320 pages

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An old-money East Coast family faces the suspicious death of its patriarch and the unsolved theft of a Goya painting rumored to be cursedThere are four cousins in the Morse family: perfect Kenny, the preppy West Coast lawyer; James, the shy but brilliant medical student; his seductive, har...

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Anne of Green Gables, My Daughter, and Me: What My Favorite Book Taught Me about Grace, Belonging, and the Orphan in Us All

by Lorilee Craker

Published: 2015-09-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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A charming and heartwarming true story for anyone who has ever longed for a place to belong. “Anne of Green Gables,” My Daughter, and Me is a witty romp through the classic novel; a visit to the magical shores of Prince Edward Island; and a poignant personal tale of love, faith, and lo...

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Sovereign: Autonomy, accountability, and other queen shit

by Erin Brown

Published: 2017-11-12

Paperback: 200 pages

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A heart wrenching depiction of growing up female. The author unravels the effects of abuse, silence, beauty obsession, and shame while finding a path out. Revealing the possibility of creating space for our own values to emerge and allowing the same for one another. She envisions a reality with room...

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Dragonfruit

by Malia Mattoch McManus

Published: 2017-06-02

Paperback: 334 pages

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HAWAI'I, 1891. As the heiress to a plantation fortune, Eliza Dawson occupies a privileged place in the opulent court of Hawaii's King Kalakaua. But her secret plan to marry the son of an opium tycoon collapses when political crisis forces him to China. Pregnant and desperate to keep her child, Eliza...