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The Course of Irish History

Published: 2012-09-16

Paperback: 544 pages

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First published over forty years ago and now updated to cover the “Celtic Tiger” economic boom of the 2000s and subsequent worldwide recession, this new edition of a perennial bestseller interprets Irish history as a whole. Designed and written to be popular and authoritative, critical...

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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium

by Mark Kurlansky

Published: 2018-03-06

Paperback: 272 pages

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A city of tropical heat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he ...

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Dog Run Moon: Stories

by Callan Wink

Published: 2016-02-09

Hardcover: 256 pages

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In the tradition of Richard Ford, Annie Proulx, and Kent Haruf comes a dazzling debut story collection by a young writer from the American West who has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, and The Best American Short Stories.SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE • 2017 PEN/HEMINGWA...

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* * * * * Fun,
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The Coincidence Makers: A Novel

by Yoav Blum

Published: 2018-03-06

Hardcover: 304 pages

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In this genre-bending novel, there is no such thing as chance and every action is carefully executed by highly trained agents. You’ll never look at coincidences the same way again.What if the drink you just spilled, the train you just missed, or the lottery ticket you just found was not ...

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Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea

by Tami Oldham Ashcraft, Susea McGearhart

Published: 2003-07-16

Paperback: 240 pages

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New available in paperback, a true-life adventure story with everything: page-turning suspense, remarkable acts of courage, wrenching despair, and a triumphant, life-affirming ending.Red Sky in Mourning is the story of Tami Oldham Ashcraft's 41-day journey to safety, which she survived thr...

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* * * * Insightful,
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L. N. Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilych

by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy

Published: 2016-09-01

Paperback: 98 pages

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s The novella tells the story of the death of a high-court judge in 19th-century Russia.

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The Leopard: A Novel

by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

Published: 2007-11-06

Paperback: 336 pages

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Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public and private worlds, and the grasp of hu...

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Devotion: A Memoir

by Dani Shapiro

Published: 2011-02-08

Paperback: 272 pages

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Settling into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was this all life was—a hodgepodge of errands, dinner dates, e-mails, meetings, to-do lists? What did it all mean? Having grown up in a deeply religious and traditio...

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* * * * * Life Changing,
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

by Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin

Published: 2018-03-27

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Winner of the 2019 Christopher AwardOprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionThe Instant New York Times BestsellerA powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit."An amazing and heartwarmin...

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The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text with Faulkner's Appendix (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

by William Faulkner

Published: 1992-09-05

Hardcover: 368 pages

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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeFrom the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short StoriesThe Sound ...