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10881) The essential Barack Obama
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The audacity of hope : The junior senator from Illinois discusses how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can address such issues as globalization and the function of religion in public life.
Dreams from my father : In New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man -- has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an...
10882) CD collection 3
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Pub. Date
2008
Description
Holiday in death: No one likes to be alone during the holidays. For New York's most posh dating service, Personally Yours, it is the season to bring lonely hearts together. But Lt. Eve Dallas, on the trail of a ritualistic serial killer has made a disturbing discovery: all the victims have been traced to Personally Yours. Eve soon enters an elite world of people searching for their one true love and one killer searching for his next victim.
Conspiracy...
10883) Andrew lost: Books 1-4
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Series
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[2004]
Description
On the dog: When ten-year-old Andrew invents a shrinking machine, he does not expect to be sucked into the machine along with his cousin Judy, only to end up in a dog's nose.
On the bathroom: After being shrunk by a shrinking machine and ending up on a dog having a bubble bath, Alexander, his cousin Judy, and a tiny robot try to survive encounters with insects, soapy bubbles, and bathtub and toilet drains.
In the kitchen: After being shrunk by a...
10887) Hits alive
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Pub. Date
2010.
Description
A compilation album that features studio versions (disc one) and live versions (disc two) of country superstar Brad Paisley's 17 number one single hits.
10888) The Early Middle Ages
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Pub. Date
p2004
Description
Focusing on the seven centuries from 300 to 1000, this course examines the period of European history known as the "Dark Ages." The period is dominated by two empires, the Roman Empire and the Carolingian Empire.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. He'd written a bestselling book and was the star of a TV show that took him to far-flung places around the globe. His New York City restaurant was humming, his OKCupid hand was strong, and he'd even hung fresh Ralph Lauren curtains to create the illusion of a bedroom in the tiny apartment he shared with his younger brother Evan, who ran their restaurant business. Then he fell in love, and everything fell apart....
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In 1940, during the Blitz, Katherine, Robbie and Amelie Bateson are sent north to a private school in Rookskill Castle in Scotland, a brooding place, haunted by dark magic from the past--but when some of their classmates disappear Katherine has to find out if the cause is hidden in the past or very much in the present.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Nathan Raab, America's preeminent rare documents dealer, describes his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts, questing after precious finds and determining their authenticity, and he shows us what the past can tell us about the present. A box uncovered in a Maine attic with twenty letters written by Alexander Hamilton; a handheld address to Congress by President George Washington; a long-lost Gold Medal that belonged to an American...
10896) Burns & Allen and friends
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Includes 16 digitally restored and remastered episodes where you never know who will turn up next for a visit to the Burns' house.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Western philosophy is a vast intellectual tradition, the product of thousands of years of revolutionary thought built up by a rich collection of brilliant minds. When most of us study philosophy, we're focusing only on the Western intellectual tradition brought about by people such as Aristotle, Descartes, and Nietzsche. But to understand the Western intellectual tradition is to only get half of the story. Just as important, and just as valid a contribution...