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1375 books starting with "A"

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American Heroin: A Lola Vasquez Novel
by Melissa Scrivner Love
Feb 19 2019
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The American Home Front: 1941-1942
by Alistair Cooke
Apr 28 2006
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American Hostage: A Memoir of a Journalist Kidnapped in Iraq and the Remarkable Battle to Win His Release
by Micah Garen, Marie-Helene Carleton
Oct 11 2005
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American Indian Stories (Modern Library Torchbearers)
by Zitkala-Sa
May 21 2019
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American Innovations: Stories
by Rivka Galchen
May 06 2014
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American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
by Eve LaPlante
Mar 02 2004
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American Kingpin
by Nick Bilton
May 02 2017
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American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
by Casey Michel
Nov 23 2021
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American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
by Craig Unger
Jan 26 2021
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American Melancholy: Poems
by Joyce Carol Oates
Feb 09 2021
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American Meteor
by Norman Lock
Jun 09 2015
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
by Adam Hochschild
Oct 04 2022
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The American Mission
by Matthew Palmer
Jun 26 2014
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American Music
by Jane Mendelsohn
Jun 01 2010
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American Nightmare: A Novel
by Kelly McWilliams
Sep 15 2026
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American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
by Kyle Paoletta
Jan 14 2025
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American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power
by Andrea Bernstein
Jan 14 2020
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American Outrage
by Tim Green
Apr 25 2007
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The American People: Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact: A Novel (The American People Series)
by Larry Kramer
Jan 07 2020
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American Philosophy: A Love Story
by John Kaag
Oct 11 2016
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American Pop: A Southern Family Saga of the American Dream and Dynasty – NPR Best Book
by Snowden Wright
Feb 05 2019
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American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
by Maureen Callahan
Jul 02 2019
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Apr 01 2005
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
Mar 01 1991
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American Queenmaker: How Missy Meloney Brought Women Into Politics
by Julie Des Jardins
Jan 21 2020
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American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal
by Neil King
Apr 04 2023
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American Rambler: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed
by Isaac Fitzgerald
May 12 2026
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American Rapture
by CJ Leede
Oct 15 2024
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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
by Alan Taylor
May 18 2021
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The American Revolution: A World War
by David Allison (Editor), Larrie D. Ferreiro (Editor)
Nov 06 2018
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