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  • The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

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    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of … America’s first Renaissance man”[more below]

    • Author: Brands, H. W.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 784
    • Publish Date: March 12 2002
    • ISBN10: 0385495404
    • Language: English
  • Foxfire 10: Railroad Lore, Boardinghouses, Depression-Era Appalachia, Chairmaking, Whirligigs, Snake Canes, Gourd Art

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    First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia’s philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the… [more below]

    • Series: Foxfire #10
    • Author: Foxfire Fund Inc
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: March 01 1993
    • ISBN10: 0385422768
    • Language: English
  • The Diana Chronicles

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. This “insanely readable and improbably profound” biography (Chicago Tribune) reveals the truth as only famed jou[more below]

    • Author: Brown, Tina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 592
    • Publish Date: May 20 2008
    • ISBN10: 076792309X
    • Language: English
  • Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem

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    xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, …no solution

    “I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.”

    With these words, the seven

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    • Author: Singh, Simon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 08 1998
    • ISBN10: 0385493622
    • Language: English
  • The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III

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    BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York TimesThe Washington Post – Fortune – Bloomberg

    From two of America’s most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House c

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    • Author: Baker, Peter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 736
    • Publish Date: September 07 2021
    • ISBN10: 1101912162
    • Language: English
  • On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir–The Greatest Battle of the Korean War

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest batt[more below]

    • Author: Sides, Hampton
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: October 29 2019
    • ISBN10: 1101971215
    • Language: English
  • Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A suspenseful behind-the-scenes look at the dysfunction that contributed to one of the worst tragedies in modern aviation: the 2018 and 2019 crashes of the Boeing 737 MAX. [more below]

    • Author: Robison, Peter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 11 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593082516
    • Language: English
  • Development as Freedom

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    By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development–for both rich and poor–in the twenty-first century.

    Freedom, S

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    • Author: Sen, Amartya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: August 15 2000
    • ISBN10: 0385720270
    • Language: English
  • The Annotated Persuasion

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    From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Persuasion that makes the beloved novel an even more satisfying and fulfilling read. Here is th… [more below]

    • Author: Austen, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: October 05 2010
    • ISBN10: 0307390780
    • Language: English
  • The Heavenly Table

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    In 1917, in that sliver of border land between Georgia and Alabama, Pearl Jewett ekes out an existence as a dispossessed farmer along with his three criminally-minded sons Cane, Cob, and Chimney. Hund… [more below]

    • Author: Pollock, Donald Ray
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: July 25 2017
    • ISBN10: 1101971657
    • Language: English
  • Loosing My Espanish

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    A heartbreaking, funny, and brilliantly inventive novel with “a narrator who erupts and disrupts the pavements of the Cuban-American experience by showing us that the most accurate, if not truthful, f

    • Author: Carrillo, H. G.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 18, 2005
    • ISBN10: 1400078148
    • Language: English
  • This Old Man: All in Pieces

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    Roger Angell, the acclaimed New Yorker writer and editor, steps up with a selection of writings that celebrate a view from the tenth decade of an engaged, vibrant life. Whether it’s a Fourth of July i… [more below]

    • Author: Angell, Roger
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: October 18 2016
    • ISBN10: 1101971398
    • Language: English
  • The Illness Lesson

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    A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE – FINALIST FOR THE 2023 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE From the author of the award-winning debut story collection We Show What We Have Learned, an “atoundingly original” ([more below]

    • Author: Beams, Clare
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: March 09 2021
    • ISBN10: 0525565477
    • Language: English
  • Little Boy

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    From the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament — part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-infl[more below]

    • Author: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: April 15 2020
    • ISBN10: 0525565957
    • Language: English
  • Flight of Dreams

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and The Frozen River, here is a suspenseful, heart-wrenching novel that brings the fateful voyage of the Hindenburg to life.

    “At every pag

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    • Author: Lawhon, Ariel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: January 10 2017
    • ISBN10: 1101873922
    • Language: English
  • Emerald City

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    A collection of masterful stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad: “Boldly modulated tales of displacement and blazing moments of truth…. Riveting, vaguely

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    • Author: Egan, Jennifer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 09 2007
    • ISBN10: 0307387534
    • Language: English
  • The Annotated Sense and Sensibility

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    From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility that makes this tale of two sisters in love an even more enjoyable read. … [more below]

    • Author: Austen, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 784
    • Publish Date: May 03 2011
    • ISBN10: 0307390764
    • Language: English
  • Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition

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    The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon war… [more below]

    • Author: Chickering, Howell D.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: February 14 2006
    • ISBN10: 1400096227
    • Language: English
  • I Was Anastasia

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author of The Frozen River comes an enthralling feat of historical suspense that unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson’s fifty-y[more below]

    • Author: Lawhon, Ariel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: February 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 1101973315
    • Language: English
  • 44 Scotland Street: 44 Scotland Street Series (1)

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    44 SCOTLAND STREET – Book 1

    The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring si

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    • Series: 44 Scotland Street #1
    • Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: June 14 2005
    • ISBN10: 1400079446
    • Language: English
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