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Conquering Darkness: Memoir of the Serial Killers Wife

by Alice M Swafford

Published: 2011-10-08

Paperback: 234 pages

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Conquering Darkness, Memoir of the Serial Killer's Wife is a painfully candid account of the lives of two black people who grew up together in West Oakland, California. Their story, would, in a few aspects, mirror the simple plot of ?boy meets girl.? Everybody knows that story?right? Boy meets girl;...

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Conquistadora

by Esmeralda Santiago

Published: 2011-07-12

Hardcover: 432 pages

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An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the best-selling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican.As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in hand...

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The Conscience of a Liberal

by Paul Krugman

Published: 2007-10-01

Hardcover: 352 pages

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This wholly original new work by the best-selling author of The Great Unraveling challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great.With this major new volume, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, studies the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms tha...

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Consequences

by Penelope Lively

Published: 2008-05-27

Paperback: 272 pages

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The Booker Prize?winning author?s sweeping saga of three generations of women ?One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of our day? (The Washington Post ) follows the lives and loves of three women?Lorna, Molly, and Ruth?from World War II?era London to the close of the century. Told...

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Consider Phlebas

by Iain M. Banks

Published: 2008-03-26

Paperback: 544 pages

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"Dazzlingly original." -- Daily Mail"Gripping, touching and funny." -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith...

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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

by Bee Wilson

Published: 2013-10-08

Paperback: 352 pages

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Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients into something delicious—or at least edible. Tools shape what we eat, but they have also transformed how we consume, and how we think about, our food. In Consider the Fork, award-winning...

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Consider the Lily

by Elizabeth Buchan

Published: 2005-09-27

Paperback: 469 pages

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Elizabeth Buchan garnered both praise and a loyal readership with the bestselling Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman and The Good Wife Strikes Back. Now her many new fans can discover one of her beloved early novels. It is the summer of 1929. The Hinton Dysart estate is dying from lack of...

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Consider This, Senora

by Harriet Doerr

Published: 1994-08-15

Paperback: 256 pages

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A Considerable Town

by M. F. K. Fisher

Published: 1978-04

Hardcover: 208 pages

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The author celebrates the city of Marseille, France. Its glory and wickeness, past and present; its life, its legends, its mystery. Hardcover. Original jacket. Stated First Edition. Light bumping and toning along bottom edge. Jacket has a few tears on the edges. Very Good/Good.

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Consigned to Death (Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries)

by Jane K. Cleland

Published: 2007-04-03

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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After a price-fixing scandal at her prestigious New York auction house, Josie Prescott moves to the New Hampshire coast to restore her reputation--and perhaps a few antiques along the way. As an antiques dealer, Josie knows how to make an honest assessment, and she's about to land her larg...