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The Man in My Basement

by Walter Mosley

Published: 2004-01-01

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Charles Blakey is a young black man whose life is slowly crumbling. His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends have begun to desert him. Worst of all, he's fallen behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that's belonged to his family for generations....

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Man in the Blue Moon

by Michael Morris

Published: 2012-08-17

Paperback: 391 pages

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?He's a gambler at best. A con artist at worst,? her aunt had said of the handlebar-mustached man who snatched Ella Wallace away from her dreams of studying art in France. Eighteen years later, that man has disappeared, leaving Ella alone and struggling to support her three sons. While the world is embroiled...

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The Man in the Empty Boat

by Mark Salzman

Published: 2012-02-14

Paperback: 160 pages

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From the author of Iron & Silk comes a moving memoir of love and family, loss and spiritual yearningAnxiety has always been part of Mark Salzman's life: He was born into a family as nervous as rabbits, people with extra angst coded into their genes. As a young man he found solace through m...

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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

by Sloan Wilson

Published: 2002-10-23

Paperback: 288 pages

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Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. Its title — like Catch-22 and Fahrenheit 451 — has become a part of America's cultural vocabulary. Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out of life: just a de...

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The Man in the Iron Mask (Oxford World's Classics)

by Alexandre Dumas

Published: 2009-02-01

Paperback: 656 pages

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Alexandre Dumas was already a best-selling novelist when he wrote this historical romance, combining (as he claimed) the two essentials of life--"l'action et l'amour." The Man in the Iron Mask concludes the epic adventures of the three Muskateers, as Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and their friend D'Artagnan,...

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Man in the Middle

by Brian Haig

Published: 2007-01-06

Hardcover: 462 pages

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Dispatched to investigate the suicide of one of D.C.'s most influential defense officials--an ardent, early supporter of the war in Iraq--Drummond and his female partner find themselves in the middle of a tug-of-war between Washington's most influential power brokers and his own personal allegiance...

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The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter

by Mark Seal

Published: 2011-06-02

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A real-life Talented Mr. Ripley, the unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. The story of Clark Rockefeller is a stranger-than-fiction twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man-because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. The career con man who ...

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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

by Lucette Lagnado

Published: 2007-07-01

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The Man in the Wooden Hat

by Jane Gardam

Published: 2009-10-27

Paperback: 233 pages

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The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern literature. A lyrical novel that recalls his fully lived life, Old Filth has been acclaimed as Jane Gardam?s masterpiece, a book where life and art merge. And now that beautiful, haunting novel has...

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* * Unconvincing,
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Man in the Woods

by Scott Spencer

Published: 2010-09-14

Kindle Edition: 324 pages

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“A smart, haunting thriller with bass reverb and a pounding heart.”—Jayne Anne Phillips, author of the National Book Award finalist Lark and TermiteScott Spencer, the acclaimed author of Endless Love and A Ship Made of Paper, reaffirms his storytelling mastery with Man in the Woods�...