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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

by Katherine Boo

Published: 2013-02-07

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A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.nIn this brilliant, breathtaking Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story...

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Behind the Bedroom Wall (Historical Fiction for Young Readers)

by Laura Williams

Published: 2005-08-31

Paperback: 184 pages

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It's 1942. Thirteen-year-old Korinna Rehme is an active member of her local Jungmadel, a Nazi youth group, along with many of her friends. She believes that Hitler is helping Germany by instituting a program to deal with what he calls the "Jewish problem," a program that she witnesses as h...

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Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom

by Sulima and Hala, Batya Swift Yasgur

Published: 2002-09-30

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Advance Praise for Behind the Burqa "Whenever and wherever adults make war, children die and women are subjected to fear and humiliation. This is true of Afghanistan too. Read this harrowing book. The tragic yet heroic tale of two women is told with great simplicity. They will haunt y...

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Behind the Scenes - Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White

by Elizabeth Keckley

Published: 2009-08-19

Paperback: 132 pages

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Elizabeth Keckley's rise from slave to White House confidante makes for an involving story that details the cruel and terrible life for those in slavery, and the drive and determination of a woman who would not let others destroy her will. "Behind the Scenes - Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in...

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Behind the Scenes at the Museum

by Kate Atkinson

Published: 1997-02

Paperback: 382 pages

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ABOUTBOOK: From the moment Ruby Lennox announces her own conception ("I exist!"), it is clear that she is a narrator who will leave no stone unturned in her account of family life above a pet shop in England. Not content simply to describe her own circumstances, Ruby investigates the lives of the women...

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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House

by Elizabeth Keckley

Published: 2011-04-27

Paperback: 126 pages

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This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.

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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

by Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley

Published: 2011-07-26

Paperback: 126 pages

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Behind the Scenes, Or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House tells the story of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who became a successful Washington, D.C., dressmaker and confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. This intimate bond allowed Keckley to witness the happy times as well...

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Beige

by Cecil Castellucci

Published: 2009-03-10

Paperback: 320 pages

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Beijing Coma: A Novel

by Ma Jian

Published: 2008-05-27

Hardcover: 592 pages

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Being Dead

by Jim Crace

Published: 2000-05-04

Paperback: 224 pages

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The author ponders the redemptive power of secular love in this novel. Their bodies had expired, but anyone looking at them could see that Joseph and Celice were still devoted, the couple seemed to have achieved a peace the world denies, a period of grace, defying even murder. They were still man and...