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Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad Cover Image

Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad (Paperback)

By Peter L. Bergen
$14.40
ISBN: 9780307955883
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Published: Broadway Books - April 30th, 2013
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History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life (Paperback)

By Jill Bialosky
$12.60
ISBN: 9781439101940
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Published: Washington Square Press - February 7th, 2012
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The News (Paperback)

By Jeffrey Brown
$14.40
ISBN: 9781556594809
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - May 5th, 2015
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The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities Cover Image

The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities (Paperback)

By William D. Cohan
$18.00
ISBN: 9781451681802
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Published: Scribner Book Company - April 14th, 2015
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 Cover Image

Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 (Paperback)

By William Dalrymple
$17.96
ISBN: 9780307948533
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Published: Vintage - January 14th, 2014
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All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Anthony Doerr
$25.20
ISBN: 9781476746586
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Published: Scribner - May 6th, 2014
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Southern Belly: A Food Lover's Companion (Paperback)

By John T. Edge
$13.46
ISBN: 9781565125476
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Published: Algonquin Books - June 29th, 2007
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital Cover Image

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)

By Sheri Fink
$24.30
ISBN: 9780307718969
Availability: Hard to Find
Published: Crown - September 10th, 2013
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Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book (Hardcover)

By Richard Ford
$25.19
ISBN: 9780061692062
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Published: Ecco - November 4th, 2014
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Leaving Before the Rains Come (Hardcover)

By Alexandra Fuller
$24.26
ISBN: 9781594205866
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Published: Penguin Press - January 22nd, 2015
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Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (Paperback)

By Robert M. Gates
$16.20
ISBN: 9780307949639
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Published: Vintage - May 12th, 2015
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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town Cover Image

Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town (Hardcover)

By Beth Macy
$25.20
ISBN: 9780316231435
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - July 15th, 2014
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The Good Lord Bird (Paperback)

By James McBride
$14.40
ISBN: 9781594632785
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 5th, 2014
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All Our Names (Paperback)

By Dinaw Mengestu
$14.40
ISBN: 9780345805669
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Published: Vintage - January 6th, 2015
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Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen Cover Image

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (Hardcover)

By Mary Norris
$22.46
ISBN: 9780393240184
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 6th, 2015
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Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower Cover Image

Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower (Hardcover)

By Henry M. Paulson, Michael Carroll
$28.80
ISBN: 9781455504213
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Published: Twelve - April 14th, 2015
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Paperback)

By Mary Roach
$14.36
ISBN: 9780393348743
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - April 2014
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True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall (Paperback)

By Mark Salzman
$15.26
ISBN: 9780375727610
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Published: Vintage - August 31st, 2004
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Cleopatra: A Life (Paperback)

By Stacy Schiff
$16.19
ISBN: 9780316001946
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Published: Back Bay Books - September 6th, 2011
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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette Cover Image

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Paperback)

By Hampton Sides
$15.30
ISBN: 9780307946911
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Published: Anchor - May 26th, 2015
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Casebook (Paperback)

By Mona Simpson
$14.36
ISBN: 9780345807281
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Published: Vintage - February 3rd, 2015
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Thrall: Poems (Hardcover)

By Natasha Trethewey
$20.70
ISBN: 9780547571607
Availability: Special Order
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - August 28th, 2012
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David Cover Image

Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David (Hardcover)

By Lawrence Wright
$25.16
ISBN: 9780385352031
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Published: Knopf Publishing Group - September 16th, 2014