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1375 books starting with "A"

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Agents of Influence: A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America into World War II
by Henry Hemming
Oct 08 2019
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Agents of Treachery: Breathtaking, Never Before Published Spy Fiction from Today’s Most Exciting Writers
by Otto Penzler (editor)
Jun 01 2010
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Agincourt: A Novel
by Bernard Cornwell
Jan 01 2009
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Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old
by Lucy Schiller
Jul 14 2026
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Agnes and the Hitman
by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer
Aug 21 2007
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Agnes at the End of the World
by Kelly McWilliams
Jun 09 2020
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Agnes Lives!: A Novel
by Hallie Elizabeth Newton
Jun 23 2026
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The Agonies
by Ben Faulkner
Mar 25 2025
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Ahab's Return: or, The Last Voyage
by Jeffrey Ford
Aug 28 2018
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Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-Gazer: A Novel
by Sena Jeter Naslund
Oct 06 1999
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Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School
by Philip Delves Broughton
Jul 31 2008
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The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
by Emily M. Bender
May 13 2025
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The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
by Shannon Vallor
Jun 03 2024
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
by Jake Johnston
Jan 30 2024
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Ain't Burned All the Bright
by Jason Reynolds
Jan 11 2022
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Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton
by Martha Ackmann
Dec 30 2025
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Air: A Novel
by Christian Kracht
Jul 14 2026
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Air Apparent: An exhilerating all-new Xanth adventure
by Piers Anthony
Oct 16 2007
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The Air Between Us
by Deborah Johnson
Apr 01 2009
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The Air Raid Book Club: A Novel
by Annie Lyons
Jul 11 2023
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The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change
by Debra Hendrickson
Jul 02 2024
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The Air We Breathe
by Andrea Barrett
Oct 01 2007
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The Air You Breathe
by Frances de Pontes Peebles
Aug 21 2018
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Airframe
by Michael Crichton
Nov 27 1996
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Airhead
by Meg Cabot
May 13 2008
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Airman
by Eoin Colfer
Jan 02 2008
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Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel
by Shahnaz Habib
Dec 05 2023
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Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts)
by Nnedi Okorafor
Apr 14 2011
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Akimbo and the Crocodile Man
by Alexander McCall Smith, illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Apr 04 2006
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Akimbo and the Elephants
by Alexander McCall Smith, illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Sep 03 2005
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    1940s Chicago nurse risks everything at an illegal women’s clinic during a high-profile trial of courage and sisterhood.
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    In 19th-century France, a girl with a magical taste becomes a duc’s poison taster amid nobility and danger.
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