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Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Hardcover))

by Walter Mosley

Published: 2016-06-14

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Walter Mosley’s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to  solve.Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins finds his life in transition. He’s ready—finally—to p...

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American Odyssey

by Brian M Gelinas

Published: 2006-09-28

Paperback: 300 pages

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Young, desperate and on the run...Hunter Leroux is seventeen, angry and going nowhere when he and his buddies Billy Prescott, fifteen, and Wade Canter, eighteen, decide to hop a freight train out of the depressed New England factory town of Barren Falls, Massachusetts. Their goal: To escap...

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Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

by Timothy Ferriss

Published: 2016-12-06

Hardcover: 736 pages

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The latest groundbreaking tome from Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek.  From the author:   “For the last two years, I’ve interviewed more than 200 world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show. The guests range from super cele...

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Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana

by Isadora Tattlin

Published: 2003-05-13

Paperback: 320 pages

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Isadora Tattlin was accustomed to relocating often for her husband’s work. But when he accepted a post in Cuba in the early 1990s, she resolved to keep a detailed diary of her time there, recording her daily experiences as a wife, mother, and foreigner in a land of contraband. The result...

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Ten Green Bottles: The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai

by Vivian Jeanette Kaplan

Published: 2004-11-02

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To Nini Karpel, growing up in Vienna during the 1920s was a romantic confection. Whether schussing down ski slopes or speaking of politics in coffee houses, she cherished the city of her birth. But in the 1930s an undercurrent of conflict and hate began to seize the former imperial capit...

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Trouble With Lichen

by John Wyndham

Published: 2000-05-30

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Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realising the implications for the world of an ever-youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an opportunity to overturn...

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The Devil in Jerusalem: A Novel

by Naomi Ragen

Published: 2016-10-04

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An ambulance screams through the Jerusalem’s quiet streets. Inside, a toddler fights for his life, his parents nowhere to be found. With profound shock, an emergency room doctor realizes that the child’s mother?a young American?is already at the hospital, sitting at the bedside of yet ...

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Public Library and Other Stories

by Ali Smith

Published: 2016-10-04

Paperback: 240 pages

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Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we’ve read over our lives—our own personal libraries—make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us? The stories in Ali Smith’s new collection are about what ...

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The Fountain Overflows (New York Review Books Classics)

by Rebecca West

Published: 2002-12-31

Paperback: 432 pages

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The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father?s genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to keep the family ...

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics)

by Laurence Sterne

Published: 2003-05-27

Paperback: 735 pages

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Endlessly digressive, boundlessly imaginative and unmatched in its absurd and timeless witLaurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first 'postmodern' novel. Par...