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The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

by Angus Deaton

Published: 2015-05-26

Paperback: 376 pages

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The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and ...

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Texas Ranger

by James Patterson

Published: 2018-08-13

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Instant #1 New York Times bestsellerIn James Patterson's white-hot Western thriller, a Texas Ranger fights for his life, his freedom, and the town he loves as he investigates his ex-wife's murder. Across the ranchlands and cities of his home state, Rory Yates's discipline and law-enforce...

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Servants' Hall: A Real Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance (Below Stairs)

by Margaret Powell

Published: 2014-01-07

Paperback: 192 pages

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The sequel to New York Times bestseller Below Stairs, Servants' Hall tells a gripping real-life tale reminiscent of Downton Abbey's Lady Sybil and Tom Branson.Margaret Powell's Below Stairs became a sensation among readers reveling in the luxury and subtle class warfare of Masterpiece Thea...

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Daddy-Long-Legs (Puffin Classics)

by Jean Webster

Published: 2011-06-09

Paperback: 192 pages

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A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month and that she can never know who he is. Judy's life at college is a whirlwind of friends, classes, parties and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis...

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A White Rose: A Soldier's Story of Love, War, and School

by Brian Huskie

Published: 2018-01-01

Perfect Paperback: 155 pages

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Brian Huskie is brilliantly angry--about what he experienced as a soldier in Iraq and has since experienced as a public school teacher in the US. The target of his anger is compulsion. Compulsion eliminates the possibility of real education in our schools and fails to improve the world in our international...

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Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be

by Joel McHale

Published: 2016-10-25

Hardcover: 320 pages

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From actor and comedian Joel McHale comes the most important celebrity-penned book of this, or any, generation. Part shocking tell-all memoir, part aspirational how-to guide, and mostly all book, this one-of-a-kind tome is required reading for anyone who enjoys Hollywood gossip, get-rich-g...

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I Know You Know: A Novel

by Gilly Macmillan

Published: 2018-09-18

Paperback: 384 pages

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From New York Times bestselling author Gilly Macmillan comes this original, chilling and twisty mystery about two shocking murder cases twenty years apart, and the threads that bind them.Twenty years ago, eleven-year-olds Charlie Paige and Scott Ashby were murdered in the city of Bristol, ...

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White Rock Lake (Images of America)

by Sally Rodriguez

Published: 2010-02-01

Paperback: 128 pages

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In 1909, Dallas city leaders approved the damming of White Rock Creek to create a new water source for the increasing needs of a growing city. As a result, so much of the life and history of Dallas has echoed through the life and history of White Rock Lake. In the early decades, the lake was home to...

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Candy Barr: The Small-Town Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque

by Ted Schwarz

Published: 2008-05-21

Hardcover: 312 pages

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Born Juanita Slusher in Edna, Texas, in 1935, the entertainer who became Candy Barr was perhaps the last great dancer in burlesque, a stripper who insisted on live, improvisational music and who at one time commanded $2,000 a week in 1950s Las Vegas. But as Juanita she had started life as a prematurely...

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The New York Times Book of the Dead: 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People

Published: 2016-10-18

Hardcover: 656 pages

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The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the book with exclusive online access to 10,000 more of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published. The obituary page is the se...