November
2007
The Abstinence Teacher
Contributor(s): Perrotta, Tom
Perrotta's topical novel illuminates the powerful emotions that run
beneath the placid surface of modern family life, and explores the
complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people.
Categories: Fiction | General
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The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly; 150 Years of Writers
and Thinkers Who Shaped Our History
Contributor(s): Vare, Robert (Editor); Smith, Daniel B (Editor)
Published in celebration of the 150th birthday of "The Atlantic Monthly,"
this extraordinary anthology brings together 100 of the magazines most
acclaimed and influential articles, essays, stories, and poems by the
writers and thinkers who have shaped our history.
Categories: Literary Collections | American | General; Social Science |
Media Studies | Print Media
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Assassin's Quest
Contributor(s): Hobb, Robin
With her awe-inspiring "Farseer" trilogy, Robin Hobb has established
herself as a writer who "continues to revitalize a genre that often seems
all too generic, making it new in ways that range from the subtle to the
shocking" ("Locus"). Now she presents a masterful finale that sends
FitzChivalry--assassin, royal bastard, and king's pawn--on the ultimate
quest: to eliminate the man who has stolen the throne and corrupted all he
once held dear.
Categories: Fiction | Fantasy | Epic; Fiction | Fantasy | Series
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Book of the Dead
Contributor(s): Cornwell, Patricia D
Kay Scarpetta faces a string of the most baffling and terrifying crimes of
her career in the extraordinary new novel from Americas #1 bestselling
crime writer. The "book of the dead" is the morgue log in which all cases
are entered by hand. For Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new
meaning.
Categories: Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Women Sleuths; Fiction |
Thrillers; Fiction | Suspense
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Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story
Contributor(s): Powers, Kim
Categories: Fiction | Ghost
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Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting
Common Dog Problems
Contributor(s): Millan, Cesar (Author); Peltier, Melissa Jo (With)
In this definitive and accessible guide, Millan, star of National
Geographic Channels hit show "The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan,"
reveals what dogs truly need to live a happy and fulfilled life.
Categories: Pets | Dogs | Training
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Cheating at Canasta: Stories (American)
Contributor(s): Trevor, William
Trevor’s precise and unflinching insights into the hearts and lives of
ordinary people are evidenced once again in this stunning new collection
in which the author examines the tenuous bonds of relationships, the
strengths that hold people together, and the truths that threaten to
separate them.
Categories: Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
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The Christmas Pearl
Contributor(s): Frank, Dorothea Benton
Theodora has finally gotten her family together in South Carolina to
celebrate Christmas, but the holiday looks nothing like the extravagant,
homey holidays of her childhood. Luckily for her, a special someone who
heard her plea for help arrives.
Categories: Fiction | Romance | Contemporary; Fiction | Contemporary Women
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Coffee with the Buddha
Contributor(s): Oliver, Joan Duncan (Author); Lennox, Annie (Foreword by)
The Coffee with . . . series allows experts and disciples to conduct
hypothetical, enlightening interviews with individuals who have shaped the
modern world. From religion to art to popular culture, these figures would
have much to say regarding the current state of the world.
Categories: Fiction | Biographical
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Creation in Death
Contributor(s): Robb, J D
Categories: Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Women Sleuths
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
Contributor(s): Atkinson, Rick
In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in
World War II, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Atkinson tells the harrowing
story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy.
Categories: History | Military | World War II; History | Europe | Italy
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The Death of Kings
Contributor(s): Iggulden, Conn
A clash of armies and leaders such as the world has never seen takes
center stage in the third installment of Iggulden's bestselling series
that captures the legend of Julius Caesar.
Categories: Fiction | Historical | General; Fiction | Action & Adventure
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the
First World War
Contributor(s): Robb, Graham
A narrative of exploration, this historical geography explains how the
modern nation of France came to be and how poorly understood that nation
still is today. Above all, it shows how much of France--past and
present--remains to be discovered. Illustrated.
Categories: History | Europe | France; History | Historical Geography
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The Education of Mrs. Brimley
Contributor(s): Macmeans, Donna
In this delightfully sexy debut, Emma Brimley pretends to be a widow to
find employment at an all-girls school. But when she’s expected to teach
the intimacies of marriage, she strikes a scandalous bargain with a
neighboring artist--a man well-versed in bedroom etiquette.
Categories: Fiction | Romance | Historical
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Emperor: The Field of Swords
Contributor(s): Iggulden, Conn
A clash of armies and leaders such as the world has never seen takes
center stage in the third installment of Iggulden's bestselling series
that captures the legend of Julius Caesar.
Categories: Fiction | Historical | General; Fiction | Action & Adventure
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Emperor: The Gates of Rome
Contributor(s): Iggulden, Conn
Rich with the feel of the ancient world, echoing the sound of battle, and
shot through with political and sexual intrigue, "Emperor" takes the
reader on a breathtaking journey from the grandeur of Rome itself to the
savagery of its most far-flung provinces, as one of history's greatest
narratives unfolds.
Categories: Fiction | Historical | General; Fiction | Action & Adventure
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Emperor: The Gods of War
Contributor(s): Iggulden, Conn
A clash of armies and leaders such as the world has never seen takes
center stage in the third installment of Iggulden's bestselling series
that captures the legend of Julius Caesar.
Categories: Fiction | Historical | General; Fiction | Action & Adventure
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Facts about the Moon: Poems
Contributor(s): Laux, Dorianne
"Laux writes gritty, tough, lyrical poems that depict the actual nature of
life in the West today."--Philip Levine. In her powerful fourth
collection, Dorianne Laux once again strikes fire from neighborhood
moments: a quiet street at dusk, a pool hall, a bare tree. Focusing on the
grace of working people, she captures the pain and beauty of women in all
their variety, caught in the "lunar pull" of our time.
Categories: Poetry | American | General
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Finn
Contributor(s): Clinch, Jon
In this masterful debut novel, Clinch takes readers on a journey into the
history and heart of one of American literature's most brutal and
mysterious figures: Huckleberry Finn's father. The result is a deeply
original tour de force that springs from Twain's classic novel but takes
on a fully realized life of its own.
Categories: Fiction | Literary
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The Fire Rose
Contributor(s): Lackey, Mercedes
In 1905, Medieval scholar Rosalind Hawkins is left destitute when her
father dies, forcing her to accept the offer that has mysteriously come
her way of becoming a governess in San Francisco. But she arrives to find
a house without children, a wife, or even an employer--only a terrible
secret.
Categories: Fiction | Fantasy | General
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Fire in the Blood
Contributor(s): Nemirovsky, Irene (Author); Smith, Sandra (Translator)
>From the author of the acclaimed and bestselling "Suite Francaise" comes a
newly discovered, never-before-published novel--a story teeming with the
life of a small French village in the years before World War II.
Categories: Fiction | General
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Five Skies
Contributor(s): Carlson, Ron
Award-winning short story writer Carlson’s first novel in 30 years
delivers a stirring tale about three men confronting their pasts and their
purpose. In a striking voice of intimacy and grace, "Five Skies" reveals
itself as a story of biblical, almost spiritual force.
Categories: Fiction | General
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The Florist's Daughter
Contributor(s): Hampl, Patricia
A tribute to the ardor of supposedly ordinary people, this memoir concerns
reach beyond a single life to achieve a historic testament to mid-century
middle America, in Hampl's most intimate, yet most universal, work to
date.
Categories: Biography & Autobiography | Childhood Memoir; Biography &
Autobiography | Literary; Biography & Autobiography | Women
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A Free Life
Contributor(s): Jin, Ha
>From the acclaimed, award-winning author of "Waiting" and "War Trash"
comes a new novel that eloquently re-imagines the American immigrant saga.
Jin tells the story of the Wu family that sets out on a journey through
contemporary America in search of a sense of belonging.
Categories: Fiction | Literary
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The Friday Night Knitting Club
Contributor(s): Jacobs, Kate
In this charming debut novel, Jacobs pens a moving story about a single
mother who runs a Manhattan yarn shop where some of her regulars gather to
chat over their stories of love, life, and everything in between.
Categories: Fiction | Romance | Contemporary
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Garden Spells
Contributor(s): Allen, Sarah Addison
"Garden Spells" is a wonderful, enchanting, crafty novel of sisters--two
very different women, each rooted in some way to her past--who discover
that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree when family ties cast their
spell.
Categories: Fiction | General
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Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure
Contributor(s): Chabot, Michael (Author); Gianni, Gary (Illustrator)
This rollicking saga by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Amazing
Adventures of Cavalier & Clay" is set 1,000 years ago along the ancient
Silk Road, and tells the tale of two wandering adventurers and unlikely
soul mates.
Categories: Fiction | Historical | General
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Gifted
Contributor(s): Lowland, Nikita
This debut novel offers a remarkably passionate and assured coming-of-age
story about a 14-year-old Indian British math prodigy, and the pressures
placed upon her as she is thrust into the adult world of a university.
Categories: Fiction | General
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The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics Edition
Contributor(s): Lessing, Doris May (Author); Lessing, Doris May
(Introduction by): a new edition of the powerful and liberating feminist
novel that raised the consciousness of an entire generation.
Categories: Fiction | Classics; Fiction | Literary
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Hick
Contributor(s): Portes, Andrea
Foreseeing a hopeless future in barrooms and parking lots, cagey
13-year-old Luli McMullen bolts headlong from the heartland, aiming at Las
Vegas where she expects to find herself a sugar daddy. Almost immediately,
crooked-bodied Eddie Kreezer, a roving obsessive with a violent streak,
and a fading but lovely grifter named Glenda begin to do battle for Luli's
head and heart. On their perilous journey westward, Luli is introduced to
drifters, lowlifes, strippers, speed freaks, gold-diggers, and a
Libertarian with a dog named Karl. Along the way, she learns the truth of
American rootlessness and discovers both the power and the peril of her
own sexual curiosity. Part coming-of-age story and part raggedy
picaresque, Hick leads us at a blinding pace down broken roads through a
world that seems to this extraordinary and indomitable young girl
dangerously uncharted.
Categories: Fiction | General
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Home to Holly Springs
Contributor(s): Karon, Jan
In the first of the Father Tim novels, Karon enchants with a story of the
newly retired priests spur-of-the-moment adventure. For the first time in
decades, Father Tim returns to his birthplace, Holly Springs, Mississippi,
in response to a mysterious, unsigned note saying simply: "Come home."
Categories: Fiction | Christian | General
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I Am America (and So Can You!)
Contributor(s): Colbert, Stephen (Author); Dahm, Richard (Author) Dinello,
Paul (Author)
In plain conversational language, not to mention the occasional grunt
and/or whistle, the star of Comedy Centrals "Colbert Report" explains his
take on the most pressing concerns of our culture: faith, family,
politics--and hygiene.
Categories: Humor | Topic | Political; Humor | Form | Essays
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In the Cities of Coin and Spice
Contributor(s): Valente, Catherynne M (Author); Kaluta, Michael William
(Illustrator)
Categories: Fiction | Fantasy | General
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The Janissary Tree
Contributor(s): Goodwin, Jason
The author of "Lords of the Horizons," a history of the Ottoman Empire,
makes a welcome shift to fiction with the first book in an impressive new
mystery series set in the empire's declining decades.
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The Last Troubadour: Song of Montsegur
Contributor(s): Armstrong, Derek
In this historical thriller set against the rich background of the
13th-century Inquisition, the last living troubadour, condemned by the
church as a heretic, must rescue a holy Christian relic from a crusading
king. Seamlessly weaving the history of the Cathar Crusade with the
historical origins of the Tarot deck, this fascinating, genre-bending epic
brings symbols of the Tarot to life through medieval characters--Arnot the
Knight Templar as the Chariot, Dame Esclarmonde de Foix as the High
Priestess, Nevara as the Magician, Pope Innocent IV as the Hierophant, and
Ramon Troubadour as the Fool--to create a richly textured historical
fantasy that is suspenseful, humorous, tragic, and satirical by turns.
Categories: Fiction | Alternative History; Fiction | Historical | General
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Lost Angel
Contributor(s): Doogan, Mike
The icy interior of Alaska is the setting for this breathtaking first
mystery by the winner of the Robert L. Fish Award for short fiction. An
astonishing debut in the tradition of Nevada Barr and C.J. Box, "Lost
Angel" explores the darker side of mans nature.
Categories: Fiction | Suspense; Fiction | Mystery & Detective | General;
Fiction | Psychological
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Mad Ship: The Liveship Traders
Contributor(s): Hobb, Robin
This second volume in "The Liveship Traders" trilogy returns readers to
the timeless city of Bingtown, where pirates plague the coasts. Althea
Vestrit doesn't have time to be afraid, for her family's newly awakened
Liveship has been seized by the ruthless pirate Kennit. She hatches a bold
plan, but to carry it out, she must recruit a Liveship that already has
slain two crews and is said to be insane.
Categories: Fiction | Fantasy | Epic
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Manless in Montclair: How a Happily Married Woman Became a Widow Looking
for Love in the Wilds of Suburbia
Contributor(s): Edelman, Amy Holman
When Isabel’s husband dies suddenly, she becomes a widow at age 41.
Feeling out of place in the very married suburbs, she begins her journey
back into the dating scene. But she begins to realize that another man may
not be the answer--and that’s when things begin to change for the better.
Categories: Fiction | General
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Mozart's Sister
Contributor(s): Charbonnier, Rita (Author); Goldstein, Ann (Translator)
In this novel based on historical fact, Mozart’s sister is a gifted
musician, possibly a greater talent than her younger brother. Charbonnier
takes readers on a lush tour of 18th-century Europe and into the
fascinating life of a woman who ultimately found a way to express her own
genius.
Categories: Fiction | Historical | General
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Our Own Worst Enemy: Asking the Right Questions about Security to Protect
You, Your Family, and America
Contributor(s): Larsen, Randall J
In this critical and provocative examination of the deficiencies and
oversights in homeland security, a leading expert reveals what individual
citizens, communities, and business leaders can do to best prepare for
some of the nations most dangerous threats.
Categories: Political Science | Political Freedom & Security | Terrorism;
Health & Fitness | Safety
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Phoenix and Ashes
Contributor(s): Lackey, Mercedes
Acclaimed novelist Lackey reinvents a classic fairy tale and gives it a
new twist. In a dark and atmospheric retelling of "Cinderella," she sets
her story in London during the First World War
Categories: Fiction | Fantasy | General
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Reserved for the Cat
Contributor(s): Lackey, Mercedes
In 1910, in an alternate London, a penniless young dancer is visited by a
cat who communicates with her mind to mind. Though she is certain she must
be going mad, she is desperate enough to follow the cats advice to
impersonate a famous Russian ballerina.
Categories: Fiction | Fantasy | General; Fiction | Alternative History
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Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale
Contributor(s): Kafu, Nagai (Author); Snyder, Stephen (Translator)
Categories: Fiction | General
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Royal Assassin
Contributor(s): Hobb, Robin
Barely escaping with his life after his first mission, young Fitz returns
to the chaotic royal court. With King Shrewd near death and Fitz's only
ally off on a futile quest, the throne is ripe for the taking. And as the
Red Ship Raiders brutalize the Six Duchies, the kingdom's fortunes-and
Fitz's own fate--hang in the balance.
Categories: Fiction | Fantasy | Epic
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Run
Contributor(s): Patchett, Ann
The highly anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of "Bel
Canto" is an engrossing story of a family on one fateful night in Boston
during which their secrets are unlocked and new bonds are formed.
Categories: Fiction | General
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The Runaway Duke
Contributor(s): Long, Julie Anne
When Rebecca Tremain is caught in a compromising position with a man she
despises, her parents arrange a hasty marriage to save her honor. There is
only one man Rebecca can turn to for help--a groomsman who is actually the
missing Duke of Dunbrooke in hiding.
Categories: Fiction | Romance | Historical
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The Secret to Seduction
Contributor(s): Long, Julie Anne
The author of "The Runaway Duke" delivers the final novel of her trilogy
about the three daughters of a murdered government official. Sabrina
Fairleigh's future rests precariously in the hands of the Libertine, Rhys
Gillray, who learns he may have been involved in the death of her father.
Categories: Fiction | Romance | Historical
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Shadow of the Silk Road
Contributor(s): Thubron, Colin
To be traveling the Silk Road is to be traveling the history of the world:
tracing the passage not just of trade and armies, but also of ideas,
religions, and inventions. Thubron's chosen route passes through China,
Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey.
Categories: Travel | Essays & Travelogues; Travel | Asia | Central;
Travel | Middle East | General
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A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today
Contributor(s): Andelman, David A
Categories: History | Military | World War I; Political Science |
Political History; Political Science | Peace
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Signed, Mata Hari
Contributor(s): Murphy, Yannick
In the cold October of 1917 Margaretha Zelle, known as Mata Hari, sits in
a prison cell in Paris awaiting trial on charges of espionage. The penalty
is death by firing squad. As she waits, burdened by a secret guilt, she
tells stories to buy back her life from her interrogators.
Categories: Fiction | Historical | General; Fiction | Literary
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The Snake Stone
Contributor(s): Goodwin, Jason
When a French archaeologist arrives in 1830s Istanbul determined to track
down a lost Byzantine treasure, the local Greek communities are uncertain
how to react. Yashim Togalu, who brilliantly solved the mysterious murders
in "The Janissary Tree," is once again enlisted to investigate.
Categories: Fiction | Historical | General
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Still to Mow
Contributor(s): Kumin, Maxine
"The power that Kumin draws from and brings to literature is potent and
seemingly inexhaustible."--"Booklist" Here Maxine Kumin's signature nature
poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. She
focuses our attention on the pleasures of horse-keeping with poems such as
"The Zen of Mucking Out," then exhorts us to "Please Pay Attention,"
decrying Dick Cheney's "canned hunting / where you don't stay to pluck /
the feathers." With equanimity, Kumin faces the disappointments and joys
of sixty years of marriage--ending with the unspoken question of "Which of
us will go down first...."
Categories: Poetry | American | General
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Stone Cold
Contributor(s): Baldacci, David
Recurring characters Oliver Stone and his Camel Club are back to save the
life of a beautiful con-artist, to implicate a shady casino king, and to
solve a string of murders of Washington, D.C., political staffers.
Categories: Fiction | Suspense; Fiction | Thrillers
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Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
Contributor(s): Reich, Robert B
One of the nations most valued voices on politics, business, and the
economy--the bestselling author of "Locked in the Cabinet" and "The Work
of Nations"--discusses the clash between capitalism and democracy, in this
timely, impassioned, and highly important book.
Categories: Political Science | Economic Conditions; Business & Economics
| Free Enterprise; Political Science | Political Ideologies | Democracy
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The Tenderness of Wolves
Contributor(s): Penney, Stef
In this brutal, epic debut novel, a man is found murdered and a
17-year-old boy is on the run. While vigilantes and rescue searchers head
out to look for the fugitive, all the mother of the boy wants is her son
back. She will do anything to see him home safe, even at the peril of her
own life.
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Tipperary
Contributor(s): DeLaney, Frank
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Ireland" returns to the saga
of his strife-torn nation with an authentic story of love and legacy as
sweeping and dramatic as the land itself.
Categories: Fiction | General
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The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness (Revised,
Updated)
Contributor(s): Ramsey, Dave
The success stories speak for themselves in this book from money maestro
Dave Ramsey. Instead of promising the normal dose of quick fixes, Ramsey
offers a bold, no-nonsense approach to money matters, providing not only
the how-to but also a grounded and uplifting hope for getting out of debt
and achieving total financial health. (Consumer Finance)
Categories: Business & Economics | Personal Finance | Money Management
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Tree of Smoke
Contributor(s): Johnson, Denis
>From the author of "Jesus Son," a long-awaited tale of two American
families swept up in the secrets and lies of the Vietnam War. Chris Offutt
writes ""Tree of Smoke" is a masterpiece."
Categories: Fiction | Espionage/Intrigue
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Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer
Contributor(s): Bennis, Phyllis
If you have ever wondered "Why is there so much violence in the Middle
East?" "Who are the Palestinians anyway?" "What are the occupied
territories?" or "What does Israel want?" then this is the book for you.
With straightforward language, Phyllis Bennis, longtime analyst of the
region, answers basic questions about Israel and Israelis, Palestine and
Palestinians, the US and the Middle East, Zionism and anti-Semitism; about
complex issues ranging from the Oslo peace process to the election of
Hamas. Together her answers provide a comprehensive understanding of the
long-standing Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Categories: History | Middle East | Israel
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Ways to Be Wicked
Contributor(s): Long, Julie Anne
Long's trilogy about the three orphaned daughters of a murdered government
official continues in this second steamy Regency-era novel.
Categories: Fiction | Romance | Historical
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Weimar Germany: Promise & Tragedy
Weitz's book reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive
achievements--and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and
detailed portraits, this comprehensive history views Weimar in its own
right--and not as a mere prelude to the Nazi era.
Categories: History | Europe | Germany; History | Social History
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Welcome to Eudora
Contributor(s): Thebo, Mimi
Categories: Fiction | General
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What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
Contributor(s): Chomsky, Noam (Author); Barsamian, David (Other)
In this new collection of conversations, "What We Say Goes" explores the
most immediate and urgent concerns confronting America. As always, Chomsky
presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle
and clarifying insight.
Categories: Political Science | Essays; Political Science | International
Relations | General; Political Science | Government | U.S. Government;
History | Modern | 21st Century
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The Winter of the World
Contributor(s): Lee, Carol Ann
The author of "The Hidden Life of Otto Frank" delivers her debut
novel--set in the aftermath of World War I--a tender and heartrending
portrait of two people struggling with their darkest demons, desperately
trying to come back from the abyss of betrayal.
Categories: Fiction | Historical | General
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The Wizard of London: Elemental Masters #4
Contributor(s): Lackey, Mercedes
Set in Victorian London--where magic is real and Elemental Masters control
the powers of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth--the fourth novel in this
bestselling series tells the story of Lord Alderscroft, Master of the
British Elemental Masters Council.