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Maeve's Times

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Emissaries of Satan

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Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert

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Targeter

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Touch and Go

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Raoul Wallenberg

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The Murray Edwards Duse Collection

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Trump on Trump

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Scratched

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Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwood Common

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The Day That Changed My Life

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Running the Voodoo Down

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The late child and other animals

Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband has been killed on the

Here We Are: To Migrate to America

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Why I Left America And Other Essays

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My Friend, Julia Lathrop

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The Rat That Got Away : A Bronx Memoir

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Alger Hiss

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Labyrinths

Emma Jung era inteligentă, ambițioasă și extrem de bogată, una dintre cele mai bogate moștenitoare din Elveția când, la vârsta de șaptesprezece ani, l-a cunoscut

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The Poisoner

Taking a fresh look at the infamous doctor's life and disputed crimes, and drawing on previously undiscovered letters and new forensic evidence, this first major

Life

From bestselling biographer Sean Smith comes the fascinating and tumultuous true story behind Sir Tom Jones, the nation s treasure, sage of The Voice and

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The Man Who Founded the Anc

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Forget About Today

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A Daughter of the Middle Border

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is the sequel to Garland's autobiography A Son of the Middle Border.

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Wildflower

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All Man!

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'Weaving together strands of myth, memory, legend, and history, Bear Island lyrically conveys a historical event that has been forgotten not only by the majority