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Mayor Helen Boosalis: My Mother's Life in Politics

by Beth Boosalis Davis

Published: 2008-08-01

Hardcover: 552 pages

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As a 1950s housewife and League of Women Voters volunteer who spearheaded the city of Lincoln s switch to a strong mayor form of government, Helen Boosalis never anticipated that she herself would one day be that strong mayor and chief executive of Nebraska s capital city.Helen Boosalis s ...

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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics)

by Thomas Hardy

Published: 2002-05-14

Paperback: 416 pages

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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Popular Classics)

by Thomas Hardy

Published: 1994-02-24

Paperback: 400 pages

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In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the...

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The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thrift Edition)

by Thomas Hardy

Published: 2004-11-18

Paperback: 256 pages

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A cruel joke at a country fair goes too far when a drunken laborer auctions off his wife and child to the highest bidder. So begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy's gripping tale of a man's rise and fall amid the natural beauty and human brutality of a rural English community.Firs...

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy

Published: 2008-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages

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In Thomas Hardy's classic novel, an ambitious man discovers that the blind energies and defiant acts that brought him to power can also destroy him.

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The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (Forgotten Books)

by Thomas Hardy

Published: 2008-10-15

Paperback: 352 pages

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"The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character". It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fict...

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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk

by Randy Shilts

Published: 2008-10-14

Paperback: 400 pages

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Mayor of the Universe

by Lorna Landvik

Published: 2012-07-15

Paperback: 312 pages

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The world sees Fletcher Weschel as a mild-mannered actuary, but it could be the world has vision problems. Still, Fletcher wonders what the point is of having a wild heart if it's ultimately harnessed by a timid soul. In his fantasies, he returns the call of adventure with a bellowing, ?he...

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The Maytrees: A Novel

by Annie Dillard

Published: 2007-06-01

Hardcover: 216 pages

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oby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his seri...

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The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues, Book 1) - Library Edition

by Rick Riordan

Published: 2008-10-01

Hardcover: 224 pages

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What would happen if you discovered that your family was one of the most powerful in human history? What if you were told that the source of the family's power was hidden around the world in the form of 39 clues? What if you were given a choice - take a million dollars and walk away ...or get the first...