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Few novels ever swept the world with such overpowering impact as "Les Miserables". Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, "Les Miserables" is not only a supe...

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Describes the basic steps of creating, discusses the creative cycle, and shows how to use these skills to reshape one's life.

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"A fine novel."<BR>THE BOSTON HERALD<BR>Photographer, writer, and composer, Gordon Parks has written a moving, true-to-life novel of growing up as a black man in this country in this century. Hailed by critics and readers ali...

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After years of surviving near-death in a concentration camp, Ross is finally safe, living in New York City among friends. But he is only beginning to understand that freedom is far from easy -- and that paradise has a price.

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In 1928, three young German men, struggling to earn a living, find their only solace from the poverty, hardship, and violence of the times in their friendship.

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In such modern classics as Chesapeake, Centennial, Hawaii, Alaska, and Texas, James A. Michener proved time and again that his understanding of and love for his country was unparalleled. This Noble Land is Michener's most personal statement about ...

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The was the unofficial empress of Hollywood and she spent a lifetime as the mistress of one of America's richest men. Gathered from tapes recroded a decade before Marion Davie's death, read, in her own words, the story of a fantastic and glitterin...

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In a small Texas town, murder brings home the unforgotten past.<BR>Twenty years ago, as Hurricane Althea lashed Central Texas, twelve-year-old Jordan Poteet and his friends decided to ride it out in their tree house. But in the still eye of ...

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Finding the equation for life is the goal in an innovative new book that uses basic mathematics to calculate our next pay raise, a rise in the inflation rate, our family budget, and the national debt, among other numbers essential to the way we li...

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A FRONT-ROW SEAT TO A YEAR'S WORTH OF MUST-SEE FILMS <BR>Director, producer, screenwriter, author, actor, and film critic, Peter Bogdanovich knows movies. Now, in this unique new book, he shares his passion with a connoisseur's insight and d...

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Chronicles the life of a complex, abrasive woman born in the shadow of her siblings' deaths and her parents' adultery, who only finds love a fter motherhood and widowhood.

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Jospehina and Ross meet in an African-American bookstore as they reach for the same rare copy of a slave woman's journal that tells the story of the man she loves who is sold away from her. When each refuses to let go, they read the book together ...

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Whether doing business with the Hutts or trying to get a decent haircut on Coruscant, Beeps, Bleats, and Boskas is an invaluable guide for anyone traveling through unfamiliar sections of the galaxy. Vividly illustrated by Sergio Aragones, this han...

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Here is hope for readers who have tried every diet under the sun only to watch their weight boomerang. The first weight-loss program of its kind, "Your Last Diet!" pinpoints what sugar addicts can do to heal their sugar sensitivity once ...

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The Timeless Resource No Word User Can Be Without-Now Completely Revised and Updated in a New Edition! - More than 75,000 entries - More than 150 new illustrations - Helpful supplements on writing, usage, and metric measurements - Updated geograph...

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Containing more than 11,000 main entries, this handy, alphabetically arrangedthesaurus offers more than 200,000 synonyms and antonyms grouped by meanings, fields of interest, and levels of formality, as well as more than 400 synonymstudies and a s...

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"A fascinating book by a distinguished Vermont physician." NEW YORK DAILY NEWS For centuries the vigorous and healthy families of Vermont have passed down simple commonsense home remedies for all sorts of common aches and pains, from one...

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In this slick, suspenseful sequel to "Deadman's Poker," professional con-artist catcher Tony Valentine tangles with hard-boiled high rollers in Vegas. Includes tips for catching poker cheats and a glossary of card hustler terms. Original.

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Gaining unprecedented access to the LAPD, crime reporter Miles Corwin shadows two homicide detectives on the mean streets of South Central L.A. Pete "Raz" Razanskas and Marcella Winn were unlikely partners: one a crusty 22-year veteran o...

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"Marge Piercy is a raw, tough, willfull, magnificent novelist." THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Set against the early days of the modern feminist movement, SMALL CHANGES tells the story of sensual Miriam Berg, who trades her doctorate for ...

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David Lurie learns that all beginnings are hard. He must fight for his place against the bullies in his Depression-shadowed Bronx neighborhood and his own frail health. As a young man, he must start anew and define his own path of personal belief ...

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In the continuation of one of Potok's best-known books, we find Lev called back to Brooklyn from France--and once again forced to make a choice between the sacred and the worldly. Lev comes to realize that his decision will affect not only the two...

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This lovely literary valentine features more than 100 poems by such famous authors as Andrew Marvel, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Samuel Coleridge, Christina Rossetti, and Sara Teasdale--all paying fitting tribute to love, the world's most treasure...

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Nicholas Darrow, a clergyman who heads a ministry of healing in a small London church, finds his peaceful, sedate life turned upside down by a needy young woman who sets his equilibrium hurtling out of control.

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When Allegra Monteverdi, the daughter of Lazar's sworn enemy, throws herself on his mercy, the pirate prince Lazar di Fiori agrees to spare the lives of her family if she sails away with him. Alone at sea with this man, Allegra realizes it will ta...

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Provides insight into the unique relationship that exists between women and animals and includes contributions from Diane Ackerman, Annie Dillard, Jane Goodall, Temple Grandin, and Barbara Kingsolver.

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Chronicles America's civil rights movement through the lives of some young people--known as the "Children"--whose courage changed the course of history.

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An updated compilation of wit, wisdom, and sayings gathers quotations and brief anecdotes concerning such age, art, business, children, education, food, friendship, the law, men, women, money, war, peace, retirement, television, and wealth. Reprint.

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One day in 1943, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, something happened . . . Suddenly the U.S.S. Eldridge, a fully manned destroyer escort, vanished into a green fog, within seconds appeared in Norfolk, Virginia, and then reappeared in Philadelphia! F...

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The author presents a journal that combines a record of the events of his daily life in New Hampshire along with the secrets of success.

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