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World Atlas 2011

by eBookWorldAtlas Team

Published: 2011-08-16

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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The world atlas with fresh data of more than 240 countries and areas of the world, with maps of continents, flags and basic maps of all the countries. Hundreds of hyperlinks for quick navigation in the book, maps of continents specially edited for Kindle, information about people, economics, politics,...

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The World Before Her

by Deborah Weisgall

Published: 2009-05-13

Paperback: 278 pages

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Marian Evans?who writes under the pen name George Eliot?has come to Venice on her honeymoon. It is 1880 and she is newly married to John Cross, twenty years her junior. She has come to this city of canals and bridges to start again, to forget the death of her longtime partner, George Henry...

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The World Below: A Novel

by Sue Miller

Published: 2005-04-26

Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages

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World Famous Love Acts

by Brian Leung

Published: 2004-04-30

Paperback: 224 pages

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"An entire book of good stories. . . . [Leung] gains trust the old-fashioned way-through confidence, craftsmanship and compassion. There are no shortcuts here, no tricks or gimmicks, no glib patinas to conceal weak underpinnings. . . . This is a book about loss, twined irrevocably with hop...

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A World I Never Made

by James Lepore

Published: 2009-04

Hardcover: 262 pages

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Pat Nolan, an American man, is summoned to Paris to claim the body of his estranged daughter Megan, who has committed suicide. The body, however, is not Megan's and it becomes instantly clear to Pat that Megan staged this, that she is in serious trouble, and that she is calling to him for ...

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The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York

by Joseph Berger

Published: 2007-09-25

Hardcover: 288 pages

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“The whole world can be found in this city. . . .”–from the PrefaceFifty years ago, New York City had only a handful of ethnic groups. Today, the whole world can be found within the city’s five boroughs–and celebrated New York Times reporter Joseph Berger sets...

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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

by Thomas L. Friedman

Published: 2007-08-07

Paperback: 660 pages

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A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller"One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The World Is Flat in 2005. In this new edition...

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World Made by Hand: A Novel

by James Howard Kunstler

Published: 2009-01

Paperback: 317 pages

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In The Long Emergency celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production, combined with climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. In World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, ...

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The World Made Straight: A Novel

by Ron Rash

Published: 2007-03-20

Paperback: 304 pages

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Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders into the woods onto private property near his North Carolina home, discovers a grove of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. After hours on the forest floor, he's released from the t...

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World of Pies

by Karen Stolz

Published: 2001-06-13

Paperback: 176 pages

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Finally in paperback! In this remarkable debut work from author Karen Stolz, readers follow the arc of a girl's life as she grows to womanhood. From crushes to surprise baby sisters to nail polish to a devastating death, Roxanne is our guide through a life that has moments of tenderness...