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Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

by Judith Miller, William J Broad, Stephen Engelberg

Published: 2002-10-02

Paperback: 416 pages

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In the wake of the anthrax letters following the attacks on the World Trade Center, Americans have begun to grapple with two difficult truths: that there is no terrorist threat more horrifying -- and less understood -- than germ warfare, and that it would take very little to mount a devast...

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The Lying Tongue

by Andrew Wilson

Published: 2008-03-18

Paperback: 336 pages

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Fresh from finishing university in England, Adam Woods arrives in Venice to begin a new chapter in his life. He soon secures employment as the personal assistant of Gordon Crace -- a famous expatriate novelist who makes his home in a dank and crumbling palazzo, surrounded by fabulous works...

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car

by Ian Fleming

Published: 2013-03-12

Paperback: 160 pages

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Ian Fleming’s beloved original text — newly illustrated by Joe Berger!"Crackpot" is what everybody calls the Pott family. So when they go to buy a new car and come back with a wreck, nobody is surprised. Except for the Potts themselves. First, the car has a name. And she tells them wha...

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Moonraker (James Bond 007)

by Ian Fleming

Published: 2012-10-16

Paperback: 257 pages

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As the super patriot and war veteran who’s bankrolling Britain’s top-secret Moonraker rocket program, Sir Hugo Drax should be above reproach. But there’s more to this enigmatic millionaire than he lets on. When M suspects Drax of cheating at cards in an exclusive gentleman’...

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Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes: A Rose Gardner Mystery

by Denise Grover Swank

Published: 2016-01-01

Library Binding: 500 pages

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S.: A Novel

by John Updike

Published: 2013-09-03

Paperback: 272 pages

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S. is the story of Sarah P. Worth, a thoroughly modern spiritual seeker who has become enamored of a Hindu mystic called the Arhat. A native New Englander, she goes west to join his ashram in Arizona, and there struggles alongside fellow sannyasins (pilgrims) in the difficult attempt to su...

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The Prodigal Sister: An emotional drama of family secrets

by Laura Elliot

Published: 2015-05-01

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Four sisters. Four secrets. One reunion to reconcile the past Cathy fled her Dublin home when she was just fifteen years old, and pregnant. Starting a new life in New Zealand with her son Conor, and partner Kevin, she believes the secret she carries will never be revealed… Rebecca was...

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Their Jihad NOT My Jihad: Or How Can You Possibly be an Anti-Terrorist Muslim?

by Raheel Raza

Published: 2014-11-02

Paperback: 128 pages

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Devout Muslim, Raheel Raza, gained international attention by appearing on the O’Rielly Factor in protest of the Ground Zero mosque. As a Pakistan-born Canadian Muslim she seems to break all conventions. Though a self-labeled feminist and progressive, Americans might call her a “conservative” for...

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Educating Milwaukee: How One City’s History of Segregation and Struggle Shaped Its Schools

by James K. Nelsen

Published: 2015-12-15

Paperback: 288 pages

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"Milwaukee's story is unique in that its struggle for integration and quality education has been so closely tied to [school] choice." --from the Introduction"Educating Milwaukee: How One City's History of Segregation and Struggle Shaped Its Schools" traces the origins of the modern school ...

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

Published: 2016-03-01

Hardcover: 432 pages

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WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and u...