Richard Poe
1) Be mine
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"From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature. Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway....
2) Fallen land
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"Set in the final year of the Civil War, as a young couple on horseback flees a dangerous band of marauders who seek a bounty reward. Callum, a seasoned horse thief at fifteen years old, came to America from his native Ireland as an orphan. Ava, her father and brother lost to the war, hides in her crumbling home until Callum determines to rescue her from the bands of hungry soldiers pillaging the land, leaving destruction in their wake. Ava and Callum...
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"It's May 23rd, Memorial Day weekend, and Promise Falls, New York, is in the midst of a full-blown catastrophe. Hundreds are hospitalized with flu-like symptoms. Dozens have died. A college student has been murdered, and Detective Barry Duckworth has seen the killer's work before. Bloody mannequins are found in car 23 of a Ferris wheel; the same number appears on a fiery, out-of-control bus and an assailant's hoodie. Working out the connection...
4) Dragon games
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Books of Umber volume 2
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Having learned more about his mysterious past, Happenstance accompanies Lord Umber on a daring journey that could affect the future of Kuraharen.
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Books of Umber volume 3
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As young Hap prepares to reverse the global catastrophe on Lord Umber's world, an evil prince and a destructive sorceress threaten the kingdom of Kurahaven.
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Robert Langdon novels volume 1
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The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno—now a major film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones.
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol—seared...
An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol—seared...
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As Evelynne Lowry, the daughter of a copper baron, comes of age in early 20th century Montana, the lives of horses dovetail with the lives of people and her own quest for womanhood becomes inextricably intertwined with the future of two men who face nearly insurmountable losses—a lonely steer wrestler named Zion from the Montana highline, and a Cheyenne team roper named William Black Kettle, the descendant of peace chiefs.
An epic that
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Shadow Campaigns volume 4
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2016
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English
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As the “audacious and subversive”* Shadow Campaigns novels continue, the weather is growing warmer, but the frosty threat of Vordan’s enemies is only growing worse...
As the roar of the guns subsides and the smoke of battle clears, the country of Vordan is offered a fragile peace…
After their shattering defeats at the hands of brilliant General Janus bet Vhalnich, the...
As the roar of the guns subsides and the smoke of battle clears, the country of Vordan is offered a fragile peace…
After their shattering defeats at the hands of brilliant General Janus bet Vhalnich, the...
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This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture — its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists — but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack....
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 2
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of...
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"Between 1911 and 1923, a series of wars--chief among them World War I--would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states. It is a story we think we know well, but as Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new history, we know far less than we think. Drawing from his years of ground-breaking research in newly opened Ottoman and Russian archives, The Ottoman Endgame brings to light the entire strategic narrative that led to an unstable new...
14) I'm my own dog
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Most dogs have human owners, but not this dog... that is until he has an itch in the middle of his back he can't reach. So he lets a human scratch his back. And then the poor human follows him home. Follow along as dog teaches his human the skills to be a good companion.
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John Rodden has taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin. His books include The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell, The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell, and The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of "St. George" Orwell. He lives in Austin, Texas.
The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering icon
Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived?...
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Besides being a general and the first president of the United States, George Washington was also a farmer. His efforts to create a self-sufficient farm at Mount Vernon, Virginia, mirrored his struggle to form a new nation. Excerpts from Washington's writings are featured throughout the book, which also includes a timeline, resource section, as well as essays on Washington at Mount Vernon and his thoughts on slavery.--From publisher description.
17) A story for Bear
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A young bear who is fascinated by the mysterious marks he sees on paper finds a friend when a kind woman reads to him.
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America is under attack. Its institutions and values are under daily assault. But the principal culprits are not foreign terrorists. They are influential and powerful Americans secretly stirring up disunion and disloyalty in the shifting shadows of the Democratic Party.
Radical infiltrators have been quietly transforming America's societal, cultural, and political institutions for more than a generation. Now, backed by George Soros, they are ready...
19) The Book of Investing Wisdom: Classic Writings by Great Stock Pickers and Legends of Wall-Street
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Penton Overseas, Inc
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2000
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Wall Street legends Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, John C. Bogle, George Soros, and others share their best investment ideas and advice in their own words.
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Penton Overseas, Inc
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2000
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Captains of industry such as Bill Gates, Andrew Grove, Michael Eisner, and Katherine Graham have created unprecedented wealth, pioneered revolutionary new industries, and shaped the destinies of entire nations. Here, listen to their words of wisdom.