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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
by Bill Bryson
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 (426 customer reviews)
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Doubleday
October 5, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010: Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything) turns his attention from science to society in his authoritative history of domesticity, At Home: A Short History of Private Life. While walking through his own home, a former Church of England rectory ...
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Great House: A Novel
by Nicole Krauss
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 (115 customer reviews)
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W. W. Norton & Company
October 5, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010: In each of the short stories that nest like rooms in Nicole Krauss's Great House looms a tremendous desk. It may have belonged to Federico García Lorca, the great poet and dramatist who was one of thousands executed by Fascists in ...
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Worth Dying For
by Lee Child
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(521 customer reviews)
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Delacorte Press
October 19, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010: You'd think that after 14 novels featuring hardscrabble hero, Jack Reacher, Lee Child's pulse-pounding series would start showing signs of wear. It is nothing short of remarkable that Child is not only able to continually reinvent his ex-military cop, but that ...
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Travels in Siberia
by Ian Frazier
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(87 customer reviews)
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Currently unavailable
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 12, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010: Over 20 years after Great Plains, one of the more oddly wonderful books of the last few decades, Ian Frazier takes us to another territory worthy of his expansive curiosity: the vast eastern stretches of Russia known as Siberia. Through the ...
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Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse
by James L. Swanson
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(122 customer reviews)
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William Morrow
September 28, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010: It's April 1865 and General Lee's troops have officially surrendered. Abraham Lincoln, looking forward to rebuilding the nation, celebrates with an evening—his last alive—at the theater. On the other side of the Mason-Dixon Line Jefferson Davis plans to move the Confederate ...
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Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
by George Dohrmann
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 (87 customer reviews)
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Ballantine Books
October 5, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010: Each year, millions of grammar school athletes swarm fields and courts armed with little more than an infectious love for their games. These endeavors represent the purity of sport, as kids are allowed to be kids and compete outside the demands ...
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How to Read the Air
by Dinaw Mengestu
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(35 customer reviews)
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Out of Print--Limited Availability
Riverhead Hardcover
October 14, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010: Early on in How to Read the Air--the second novel from the author of the widely acclaimed debut, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears--Jonas Woldemariam and his soon-to-be wife Angela attend a party, where they tell casual, false stories about Angela's ...
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Revolution
by Jennifer Donnelly
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(175 customer reviews)
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Delacorte Books for Young Readers
October 12, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010: Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly's remarkable new novel, weaves together the lives of Andi Alpers, a depressed modern-day teenager, and Alexandrine Paradis, a brave young woman caught up in the French Revolution. While in Paris with her estranged father, a Nobel ...
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Art & Max
by David Wiesner
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(45 customer reviews)
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Clarion Books
October 4, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010: With eye-popping illustrations, three-time Caldecott medalist David Wiesner takes readers on a stunning journey through the art world. Art & Max is the story of two artists: Art, a collared lizard who is studiously painting a portrait when we first ...
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Museum of Thieves (The Keepers)
by Lian Tanner
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(27 customer reviews)
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Delacorte Books for Young Readers
September 28, 2010
Hardcover
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010: In the city of Jewel, safety and temperance are prized above all other virtues. Goldie, an impetuous girl with a talent for petty thievery, is eagerly awaiting her Separation, in which her silver guardchain connecting her to her parents for safety ...
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