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Corsair (Oregon Files)

by Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul

Published: 2010-02-23

Paperback: 560 pages

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For five novels, Clive Cussler has brought readers into the world of the Oregon, a seemingly dilapidated ship packed with cutting edge technology and captained by the daring Juan Cabrillo. Now, the Oregon and its crew face their biggest challenge yet-with a danger torn from today's headlin...

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Cosmopolis: A Novel

by Don DeLillo

Published: 2003-03-25

Hardcover: 224 pages

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It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end -- those booming times of market optimism when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his ...

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The Cosmopolitans

by Nadia Kalman

Published: 2010-12-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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Fiction. Jewish Studies. Equal parts Jane Austen and Gogol, THE COSMOPOLITANS casts a sharp and sympathetic eye on the foibles and rewards of family and life in America. This warm and exuberantly comic debut tells the story of the Molochniks, Russian-Jewish immigrants in suburban Connecticut. Daughters...

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The Cossacks and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

by Leo Tolstoy

Published: 2007-01-19

Paperback: 480 pages

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Tolstoy's powerful semiautobiographical stories based on his time spent in the Russian army?the latest in our series of fresh new Tolstoy translations In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army. The four years he spent as a soldier were among the most signifi...

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The Cost of Discipleship

by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Published: 1995-09-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What d...

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The Cost of Hope: A Memoir

by Amanda Bennett

Published: 2012-06-05

Hardcover: 240 pages

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From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memoir?a love story of two unusual people, their complex marriage and deep devotion, and finally, Bennett's quest to save her husband's life.   When Wall Street Journal reporter Amanda Bennett m...

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Cost: A Novel

by Roxana Robinson

Published: 2008-06-10

Hardcover: 432 pages

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A Cottage by the Sea

by Ciji Ware

Published: 2010-06-01

Paperback: 544 pages

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"Do not start unless you want to be up all night!...Whether or not you believe in reincarnation, you'll believe in the ability of love to transcend time and place and the wonder of Ciji Ware's writing. Superb!" --Romantic Times (Gold Medal review) One woman, one man, one shared fate... A r...

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A Cottage in Portugal

by Richard Hewitt, Simon & Schuster, Barbara Finn-Hewitt, Richard M. Hewitt

Published: 1996

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A high-spirited account follows the experiences of Richard and Barbara Hewitt, who left the United States to renovate a three-hundred-year-old cottage in a remote Portuguese village. 15,000 first printing.

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Cotton

by Christopher Wilson

Published: 2006-10-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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Lee Cotton is a black boy born white-skinned in segre�gated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lee's first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight train headed north, end up in St. Louis as ...