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Special Ops
by W.E.B. Griffin
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: Feb 2002
Griffin has some surprises up his sleeve, and as he takes us through the twists and turns of Special Ops, he spins a story of devilish cunning and thrilling adventure.
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The Chinese
by Jasper Becker
Hardcover: Dec 2000
Paperback: Feb 2002
China's 1.25 billion people comprise nearly a quarter of the world's population. Becker's China is both something very different and much greater than the stereotype suggests. The Chinese is the hidden story of the people of the world'...
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan
Hardcover: Feb 2001
Paperback: Jan 2002
Tan's newest novel mixes pure fiction with elements of autobiography. In the acknowledgements she writes, "The heart of this story belongs to my grandmother, its voice to my mother".
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Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime: A Novel
by John Dunning
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: Jan 2002
Dunning calls upon his vast knowledge of radio and his incisive reading of history to create a poignant, page-turning novel that sheds new insights on some of the most harrowing events of the twentieth century.
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Morgan's Run: A Novel
by Colleen McCullough
Hardcover: Sep 2000
Paperback: Jan 2002
In a novel of sweeping narrative power unequaled since her own beloved worldwide bestseller The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough returns to Australia -- this time with the story of its birth.
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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
by Sylvia Nasar
Hardcover: Jun 1998
Paperback: Dec 2001
'A brilliant book -- at once a powerful and moving biography of a great mathematical genius and an important contribution to American intellectual history.'
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River Town
by Peter Hessler
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: Dec 2001
An unforgettable portrait of a city that, much like China itself, is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be. "Tender, intelligent, and insightful, [this] is the work of a writer of rare talent; it deserves to become a ...
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A Painted House
by John Grisham
Hardcover: Feb 2000
Paperback: Dec 2001
A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience inspired by Grisham's own childhood in rural Arkansas.
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The First Counsel
by Brad Meltzer
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: Dec 2001
With trademark surgical plotting, razor-sharp dialogue, and lightning pace, Meltzer explores the charged atmosphere of life inside the White House as it's never been seen.
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A Day Late and A Dollar Short
by Terry McMillan
Hardcover: Jan 2001
Paperback: Dec 2001
Meet the Price family, matriarch Viola, her sometimes-husband Cecil, and their four adult kids, each of whom sees life -- and one another -- through thick and thin, and entirely on their own terms. McMillan gives us six more friends we never want to ...
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The Change Before The Change: Everything You Need to Know to Stay Healthy in the Decade before Menopause
by Laura E. Corio, Linda G. Kahn
Hardcover: Oct 2000
Paperback: Dec 2001
You're in the prime of life. As far as you know, menopause could be years away. So why is your body sending you such weird messages? You could be in perimenopause--the change that precedes the change by as many as ten years.
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A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
Hardcover: Nov 2001
Paperback: Nov 2001
"Astonishing. . . . A rich and varied spectacle, full of wisdom and laughter and the touches of the unexpectedly familiar through which literature illuminates life." - The Wall Street Journal.
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Soul Mountain
by Gao Xingjian
Hardcover: Nov 2000
Paperback: Nov 2001
A man's search for meaning -- in life, in the journey -- turns up the possibility that there may be no meaning. The elusive Lingshan (Soul Mountain) becomes the object of his quest. A novel of immense wisdom and profound beauty.
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The Constant Gardener
by John Le Carre
Hardcover: Dec 2000
Paperback: Nov 2001
Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana.
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Set In Darkness: An Inspector Rebus Mystery
by Ian Rankin
Hardcover: Oct 2000
Paperback: Nov 2001
Someone's going to make a lot of money out of Scotland's independence - and, as Rebus knows all too well, where there's big money at stake, darkness gathers.
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Nothing Like It In The World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1865-1869
by Stephen Ambrose
Hardcover: Aug 2000
Paperback: Nov 2001
Ambrose writes with power and eloquence about the brave men -- the famous and the unheralded, ordinary men doing the extraordinary -- who accomplished the spectacular feat that made the continent into a nation.
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The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials - Book III
by Philip Pullman
Hardcover: Oct 2000
Paperback: Oct 2001
Brings the intrigue of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife to a heart-stopping end, marking the final volume of His Dark Materials as the most powerful of the trilogy.
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Prodigal Summer
by Barbara Kingsolver
Hardcover: Oct 2000
Paperback: Oct 2001
Weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
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Protect and Defend
by Richard North Patterson
Hardcover: Dec 2000
Paperback: Oct 2001
Patterson gives us the resounding clash of competing ambitions between the president and the majority leader; the equally momentous collision of science and culture in the courtroom; and the legal process from the perspective of the judge.
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Code To Zero
by Ken Follett
Hardcover: Dec 2000
Paperback: Oct 2001
Declared "a master" by Time magazine, Ken Follett returns with Code to Zero - a page-turning novel of suspense in the bestselling tradition of Eye of the Needle, The Key to Rebecca, and The Man from St. Petersburg.
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