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Lake Effect

Lake Effect

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The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomatox- Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and Their Brothers

The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomatox- Stonewall Jackson, George McClellan and Their Brothers

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Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir

Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir

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Always A Pleasure: Mortality, Friendship, Alzheimer's, Loss

Always A Pleasure: Mortality, Friendship, Alzheimer's, Loss

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Remember Books

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Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America

Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America

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Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search For Her Family's Buried Past

Half-Jew: A Daughter's Search For Her Family's Buried Past

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My Name Is Iran: A Memoir

My Name Is Iran: A Memoir

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Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond

Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond

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Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond

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Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond

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Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur

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Dangerous Love: A True Story of Tragedy, Faith, and Forgiveness in the Muslim World

Dangerous Love: A True Story of Tragedy, Faith, and Forgiveness in the Muslim World

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Tramping in New Zealand 6 (LONELY PLANET TRAMPING IN NEW ZEALAND)

Tramping in New Zealand 6 (LONELY PLANET TRAMPING IN NEW ZEALAND)

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Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War

Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War

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Dear World: A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea for Peace

Dear World: A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea for Peace

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Ruggles Street: The Life Of An American Artist

Ruggles Street: The Life Of An American Artist

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Flying Free: My Victory Over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team

Flying Free: My Victory Over Fear to Become the First Latina Pilot on the US Aerobatic Team

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Blackstone Publishing

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The Joker: A Memoir

The Joker: A Memoir

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Simon & Schuster

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Bob Hope: My Life In Jokes

Bob Hope: My Life In Jokes

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All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader

All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader

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The Way I Was

The Way I Was

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More Than Words

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Faith Under Fire: An Army Chaplain's Memoir

Faith Under Fire: An Army Chaplain's Memoir

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Broadway Books

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Tenemental: Adventures of a Reluctant Landlady

Tenemental: Adventures of a Reluctant Landlady

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The Feminist Press at CUNY

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Big & Tall Chronicles: Misadventures of a Lifelong Food Addict!

Big & Tall Chronicles: Misadventures of a Lifelong Food Addict!

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Negroland: A Memoir

Negroland: A Memoir

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The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters and the British Aristocratic World Into Which They Married

The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters and the British Aristocratic World Into Which They Married

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More Than Words

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Hunting Fish: A Cross-Country Search for America's Worst Poker Players

Hunting Fish: A Cross-Country Search for America's Worst Poker Players

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More Than Words

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Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress

Tale of a Sky-Blue Dress

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William Morrow

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Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister's Rediscovery of Faith, Hope, and Love

Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister's Rediscovery of Faith, Hope, and Love

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Harper

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Watching Our Crops Come In

Watching Our Crops Come In

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More Than Words

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Thabo Mbeki & The Battle for the Soul of the ANC

Thabo Mbeki & The Battle for the Soul of the ANC

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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An Apple for My Teacher: Twelve Writers Tell About Teachers Who Made All the Difference

An Apple for My Teacher: Twelve Writers Tell About Teachers Who Made All the Difference

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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

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The Leap of the Deer: Memories of a Celtic Childhood

The Leap of the Deer: Memories of a Celtic Childhood

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More Than Words

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Chasing the Hawk: Looking for My Father, Finding Myself

Chasing the Hawk: Looking for My Father, Finding Myself

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More Than Words

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Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971

Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971

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Doubleday

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Iron Man: The Cal Ripken, Jr. Story

Iron Man: The Cal Ripken, Jr. Story

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More Than Words

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Kennedys

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Kennedys

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More Than Words

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Now I See the Moon: A Mother, a Son, and the Miracle of Autism

Now I See the Moon: A Mother, a Son, and the Miracle of Autism

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Harper Perennial

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