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1) My Ishmael
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Ishmael trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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English
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Encountering a man known only as "the teacher," a traveler embarks on an odyssey of divine revelation through ancient Scriptures, the laws of creation, the keys of spiritual truth and the religious world's most perplexing mysteries. By the best-selling author of The Harbinger.
4) Turtle moon
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1992
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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English
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"George Eliot's beloved masterpiece in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with a foreword by Rebecca Mead, author of the bestselling memoir My Life in Middlemarch A triumph of realist fiction, George Eliot's Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of sweeping change. The proposed Reform Bill, the new railroads, and scientific advances are threatening upheaval on every front. Against...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
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IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
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English
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From the publisher. The 1853 edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin -- known as the "Splendid Edition" -- includes 117 detailed, evocative illustrations by Hammatt Billings. An introduction by Bancroft-winning historian David S. Reynolds provides a general introduction discussing the history of the Splendid Edition and the role Stowe's novel played in fomenting the Civil War, a role reinforced by the story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of...
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New American Library
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives and pursue their own happiness. It tells of a young woman’s passionate love, held like a fortress against the corrupting evil of a totalitarian state. We the Living is not a story of politics, but of the men and women who have to struggle for existence behind the Red banners and slogans. It is a...
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"A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning,...
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Putnam
Pub. Date
[1978]
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English
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“A page-flipping tale of power, brutality and glamour (Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Godfather. Played out in the underground worlds of high-stakes gambling, publishing, and the film industry, this epic thriller follows two brothers, Merlyn and Arite, as they delve into the dangerous underbelly of American life. From Las Vegas to New York to Hollywood, there is one thing that remains constant: organized crime and the law are...
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Capital code trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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In the conclusion of a trilogy that began with Forty Signs of Rain and Fifty Degrees Below, humankind races against time to prevent or control the repercussions of a series of international disasters, including global warming and environmental instability, before it is too late.
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Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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"The stream itself runs through a small valley in a scenic but depressed rural area. When a plan gets underway to build an industrial park, though, and the promise of new jobs and a dramatically different way of life take hold, the tranquil co-existence of man and animal begins to deteriorate. Clark depicts the changes that take place in the stream, charting the gradual but devastating effects on the plants and animals and, especially, on one particular...
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