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The Famished Road

by Ben Okri

Published: 1993-05-01

Paperback: 512 pages

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In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of worl...

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Are You Somebody?: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman

by Nuala O'Faolain

Published: 2009-02-17

Paperback: 240 pages

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"You don't want the book to end; it glows with compassion and you want more, more because you know this is a fine wine of a life, richer as it ages."?Frank McCourt, author of Angela's AshesOne of nine children born into a penniless North Dublin family, Nuala O'Faolain was saved from a harr...

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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems

by Camille Paglia

Published: 2006-01-24

Paperback: 304 pages

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America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharp...

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I Rose Like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt

by Paul Grondahl

Published: 2004-06-01

Hardcover: 464 pages

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A biographical analysis of Theodore Roosevelt's political education contends that his training occurred not in the wilderness as believed by popular opinion, but within strategic political locations that exposed him to nineteenth-century government and prepared him for a presidential career. 35,000 first...

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The Age of Innocence (Feature Film & Book)

by edith-wharton

Published: 2009

Paperback: 303 pages

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The Leopard Hat: A Daughter's Story

by Valerie Steiker

Published: 2003-05-06

Paperback: 336 pages

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In this tender loving memoir, Valerie Steiker evokes a magical childhood on the Upper East side of New York with a woman whose own losses led her to delight in family, beauty and life itself. Valerie Steiker’s Belgian Jewish mother, Gisèle—who, as a child in Antwerp, was hidden from t...

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City of Lights

by Tim Vicary

Published: 1998-10-01

Paperback: 32 pages

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Cathy and Helen, two astronauts, and Mary, a reporter, are making the first flight on Space Bird One, NASA's new spaceplane. They are going to the Moon. The flight goes very well until Mary sees a UFO - then everything begins to go wrong.

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The Translator

by John Crowley

Published: 2003-03-04

Paperback: 295 pages

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A novel of tremendous scope and beauty, The Translator tells of the relationship between an exiled Russian poet and his American translator during the Cuban missile crisis, a time when a writer's words -- especially forbidden ones -- could be powerful enough to change the course of history...

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Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro Book 1)

by Jennifer Weiner

Published: 2002-04-02

Kindle Edition: 400 pages

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner brings to life an irresistibly funny and relatable heroine in the novel The Boston Globe called “funny, fanciful, extremely poignant, and rich with insight.”For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Sh...

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Sparks from a Cruel Grindstone: Book Two of Three (Hellbound 2)

by William Galaini

Published: 2018-08-17

Kindle Edition: 360 pages

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They come from the smoky depths of Hell’s pit. Remnants of the shattered Pious Legion, these hateful castoffs of Earth’s Roman Empire seek to conquer. Armed with maddening gas, Maximinus Thrax’s airships swarm the skies like vengeful locusts, reducing entire populations to ash.For B...