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Matilda

by Roald Dahl

Published: 2007-08-16

Paperback: 240 pages

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For most kids, ?The Trunchbull? is pure terror, but for Matilda, she's a sitting duck.The success of the recent movie version should encourage kids to read the hilarious, thought-provoking original novel. Matilda is a genius who not only has to deal with loud, obnoxious, idiot parents ...

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Mating

by Norman Rush

Published: 1991-09-03

Hardcover: 477 pages

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Set in the African republic of Botswana--the locale of his acclaimed short story collection, Whites--Norman Rush's novel simultaneously explores the highest of intellectual high grounds and the most tortuous ravines of the erotic. tackles the geopolitics of poverty and the mystery of what ...

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Matrimony: A Novel

by Joshua Henkin

Published: 2008-08-26

Paperback: 304 pages

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From the moment he was born, Julian Wainwright has lived a life of Waspy privilege. The son of a Yale-educated investment banker, he grew up in a huge apartment on Sutton Place, high above the East River, and attended a tony Manhattan private school. Yet, more than anything, he wants to g...

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Matt Kramer's Making Sense Of Italian Wine

by Matt Kramer

Published: 2006-10-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Matt Kramer, longtime Wine Spectator columnist and author of the classic Making Sense series of wine books, now turns his palate toward Italy. Though Italian wine is the most popular wine among consumers, it remains puzzling to most wine lovers who wouldn?t know a Barolo from a Barbaresco....

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A Matter of Principle

by Conrad Black

Published: 2011-08-31

Hardcover: 592 pages

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"I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy. I would never, as was once needlessly feared in this court, be a fugitive from justice in this country, only a seeker of it."?Conrad Black, in his statement to the court, June 24, 2011In 1993, Conrad Black was the proprietor of London's Da...

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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

by Karl Marlantes

Published: 2010-03-23

Hardcover: 592 pages

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Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into th...

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Matters of Faith

by Kristy Kiernan

Published: 2008-08-05

Paperback: 321 pages

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Maude March on the Run!

by Audrey Couloumbis

Published: 2008-05-13

Paperback: 320 pages

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The papers call Maude notorious. But 12-year-old Sallie knows her big sister didn't do the things the stories say . . . not on purpose anyway. In fact, she and Maude have made a fresh start and are trying to live on the up-and-up. But just when the girls are settling into their new life, M...

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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

by Art Spiegelman

Published: 1986-08-12

Paperback: 159 pages

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The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art—widely...

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Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine

by Tom Wolfe

Published: 1999-10-05

Paperback: 240 pages

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The author writes about such diverse subjects as aerial combat over Vietnam and the upper echelons of society. Wolfe's drawings have appeared in one-man shows in New York galleries.