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| Angela's Ashes |
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Angela’s Ashes is a memoir by Irish-American author Frank McCourt and tells the story of his childhood in Brooklyn and Ireland. It was published in 1996 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Born in Brooklyn, New York City on 19...
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| Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them |
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Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them is a satirical book on American politics by left-wing comedian, political commentator and now Senator Al Franken, published in 2003 by Dutton, a subsidiary in the Penguin Group. Franken had a study group of...
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| The Kite Runner |
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The Kite Runner is a novel by the author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it is Hosseini's first novel, and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2007.
The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir...
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| The Truth |
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The Truth (With Jokes) is a book of political satire and humor by Al Franken, released in October 2005. The book's main focus is on the 2004 presidential election and Franken's research into the Republicans' strategy in their victory.
The book opens...
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| The Da Vinci Code |
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The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery-detective fiction novel written by American author Dan Brown. It follows symbologist Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu as they investigate a murder in Paris's Louvre Museum and discovers a battle between the Priory...
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| Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction |
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Brave New Words |
Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction (ISBN 0-19-530567-1) is a book published in 2007 by the Oxford University Press. It was edited by Jeff Prucher, with an introduction by Gene Wolfe. The vocabulary includes words used in...
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| "A" is for Alibi |
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"A" Is for Alibi is the first novel in the Kinsey Millhone series by crime writer Sue Grafton. It was published in 1982. The first printing of "A" Is for Alibi was 7,500 copies.
Grafton based the story to some extent on her own 'fantasies' of...
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| Water for Elephants |
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Water for Elephants is a historical novel by Sara Gruen. The novel centers on Jacob Jankowski and his experiences in a travelling circus called The Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.
Set during the Great Depression, Water for Elephants...
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| A Thousand Splendid Suns |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan author Khaled Hosseini, his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner. It focuses on the tumultuous lives of two Afghan women and how their lives cross each other, spanning from...
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| Travels in the Scriptorium |
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Travels in the Scriptorium is a novel by Paul Auster first published in 2007.
Elements from most past Auster novels all converge in this book: every character other than the protagonist, Mr. Blank, is taken from a previous novel, with yet more...
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| "G" Is for Gumshoe |
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"G" Is for Gumshoe is the seventh novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
In "G" Is for Gumshoe, Kinsey Millhone meets up with fellow investigator and...
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| "H" Is for Homicide |
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"H" Is for Homicide is the eighth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
In "H" Is for Homicide, Kinsey Millhone goes under cover to help break up an...
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| "B" Is for Burglar |
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"B" Is for Burglar is the second novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
In the second installment of the "Alphabet Mysteries", private investigator...
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| "C" Is for Corpse |
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"C" Is for Corpse is the third novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
"C" Is for Corpse was awarded the 1987 Anthony Award for Best Novel at...
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| "D" Is for Deadbeat |
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"D" Is for Deadbeat is the fourth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
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| "E" Is for Evidence |
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"E" Is for Evidence is the fifth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. It is the shortest book in the series to date.
In 2005, Grafton told an...
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| "F" Is for Fugitive |
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"F" Is for Fugitive is the sixth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
Grafton had originally planned to call the novel "F" Is for Forgery but...
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| "I" Is for Innocent |
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"I" Is for Innocent is the ninth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
Kinsey is now working out of attorney Lonnie Kingman's office after having a...
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| "J" Is for Judgment |
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"J" Is for Judgment is the tenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
"J" Is for Judgment was a New York Times best-seller and had an initial press...
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| "K" Is for Killer |
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"K" Is for Killer is the eleventh novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. The novel was a New York Times bestseller with a reported 600,000-copy first...
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| "L" Is for Lawless |
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"L" Is for Lawless is the twelfth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
Kinsey is asked by her landlord Henry Pitts to help out Bucky, the grandson...
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| "M" Is for Malice |
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"M" Is for Malice is the thirteenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
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| "N" Is for Noose |
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"N" Is for Noose is the fourteenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California,, although much of this novel's action takes place outside of that fictional...
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| "O" Is for Outlaw |
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"O" Is for Outlaw is the fifteenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
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| "P" is for Peril |
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"P" Is for Peril is the sixteenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels. The novel focuses on the disappearance of Dr. Dowan Purcell, a nursing home administrator and doctor at Pacific Meadows Nursing Home, and features Kinsey...
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| "Q" is for Quarry |
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"Q" Is for Quarry is the seventeenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
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| R is for Ricochet |
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"R" is for Ricochet |
"R" Is for Ricochet is the eighteenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California.
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| "S" Is for Silence |
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S is for Silence |
"S" Is for Silence is the nineteenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet" series of mystery novels and features Kinsey Millhone, a private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. In a departure from the series format, this novel is set in alternating...
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| When You Are Engulfed in Flames |
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames is a collection of essays by bestselling American humorist David Sedaris. It was released on June 3, 2008.
Sedaris's sixth book assembles essays on trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, associations in the...
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| Set This House in Order: A Romance Of Souls |
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| The White Tiger: A Novel |
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The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 and won the Man Booker Prize for the same year. The novel studies the contrast between India's rise as a modern global economy and the main character,...
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| "T" is for Trespass |
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