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And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Resistance

by Jacques Lusseyran

Published: 1998-04-01

Paperback: 316 pages

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This astonishing autobiography tells the gripping, heroic story of the early life of Jacques Lusseyran, an inspiring individual who overcame the limitations of physical blindness by attending?literally?to the light within his own mind. Through faith in the connection between vivid inner sight and outer...

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And Veronica Decides to Die

by Paulo Coelho

Published: 1999-09-30

Paperback: 192 pages

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Imprint. Veronika believes her life is entirely meaningless. She takes an overdose of sleeping tablets in an attempt to end her life. Instead of dying, she wakes up (five days later) in a mental hospital. But her dismay worsens as she experiences a heart attack, and is told that the damage is so severe...

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And When She Was Good

by Laura Lippman

Published: 2012-08-14

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Perennial New York Times and nationally bestselling author and acclaimed multiple–prize winner Laura Lippman delivers a brilliant novel about a woman with a secret life who is forced to make desperate choices to save her son and herself.When Hector Lewis told his daughter that she had a ...

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Andrew Jackson

by Sean Wilentz

Published: 2005-12-27

Hardcover: 195 pages

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The Founding Fathers espoused a republican government, but they were distrustful of the common people, having designed a constitutional system that would temper popular passions. But as the revolutionary generation passed from the scene in the 1820s, a new movement, based on the principle of broader...

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Android Karenina (Quirk Classic)

by Leo Tolstoy, Ben Winters

Published: 2010-06-08

Paperback: 541 pages

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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space...

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The Andromeda Strain

by Michael Crichton

Published: 2008-11-01

Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages

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The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent in...

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Anecdotal

by J. Brooks Dann

Published: 2005-03

Paperback: 356 pages

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Jake Tanner is a 31-year-old itinerant consultant, quasi-journalist and regular man-about-town in post dot com San Francisco. When he decides to add dilettante raconteur to his impressive list of credentials, he starts to capture the hopes, dreams and social commitments of the new millenni...

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The Angel (The Original Sinners)

by Tiffany Reisz

Published: 2012-09-25

Paperback: 416 pages

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No safe word can protect the heartInfamous erotica author and accomplished dominatrix Nora Sutherlin is doing something utterly out of character: hiding. While her longtime lover, Søren?whose fetishes, if exposed, would be his ruin?is under scrutiny pending a major promotion, Nora's lying...

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Angel Creek

by Linda Howard

Published: 1998-01-01

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories

by Don DeLillo

Published: 2011-11-15

Hardcover: 224 pages

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From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011, chronicling--and foretelling--three decades of American life Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmeriz...