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 The
Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice
by
David Rose (Hardcover - May 14, 2007)
Other Editions:
Large Print ~ Race, injustice, and serial murder in the Deep South. |
 The
Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Hardcover -
April 17, 2007) |
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Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist's Travelogue
by
Michael D. Yates (Paperback - Mar 19,
2007) Other Editions:
Hardcover |
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 Fist
Stick Knife Gun - A Personal History Of Violence In America
by
Geoffrey Canada (Paperback - April
9, 1996) Other Editions:
Hardcover,
School & Library Binding ~ When award-winning educator and activist
Geoffrey Canada
was growing up in the Bronx, the "sidewalk" boys learned the
codes of the block from their elders and were ranked--and to some degree
protected--through the rituals of fist, stick, and knife. Weaving in and
out of his stark storytelling is a cogent analysis of how the complicity
of gun manufacturers turned this contained violence into today's world of
drive-by shootings and automatic weapons.
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 Flight:
A Novel by
Sherman Alexie (Paperback - Mar 28,
2007) About to commit a devastating act, the young man finds himself shot
back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American
history. |
 High Society: How Substance Abuse Ravages America
and What to Do About It by
Joseph A. Califano Jr. (Author)
(Hardcover -
April 30, 2007) |
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 Not
on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
by
Don Cheadle and
John Prendergast (Paperback - May 1,
2007) ~ This book is a guide for these already involved, as well as those
who are interested in taking action, or speaking out against the mass killings
that continue to occur in the
Sudan’s Darfur region. Coauthored by
Cheadle, actor and star of the film
Hotel Rwanda, and
Prendergast, senior adviser of the
International Crisis Group, the book is a pastiche of practical
information, instructions, memoir and history. |
 Peony in Love: A Novel
by
Lisa See (Author)
(Hardcover - Jun
26, 2007) Other Editions: Paperback,
Hardcover,
Audio CD,
Audio CD |
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 A
Thousand Splendid Suns by
Khaled Hosseini (Hardcover - May 22,
2007) Other Editions:
Hardcover,
Audio CD,
Audio CD ~ It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow
than
The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an
unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone
on to have over four million copies in print worldwide. But when preview
copies of
Khaled Hosseini's second novel,
A Thousand Splendid Suns, started circulating, readers reacted with
a unanimous enthusiasm that few of us could remember seeing before. As special
as
The Kite Runner was, those readers
said,
A Thousand Splendid Suns is more so, bringing Hosseini's compassionate
storytelling and his sense of personal and national tragedy to a tale of
two women that is weighted equally with despair and grave hope.
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