Books with 250-400 pages
250-400 Pages
Recommended books found: 2,911
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Fragrant Harbor
by John Lanchester
Hardcover: Jun 2002
Paperback: Sep 2003
Set in Hong Kong, from the intrigue and double-dealing of the 1930s, through the savagery of the Japanese occupation, to the year 2000, this novel depicts a tumultuous time and place, peopled with extraordinary characters.
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Coming Back To Me
by Caroline Leavitt
Hardcover: Apr 2001
Paperback: Sep 2003
"Rarely has an author succeeded so splendidly at making real the inexplicable event (here a life-threatening childbirth) while also reminding us of the struggle between sisters, the enchantment of love, and the kindness of others. Do not miss this ...
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The Last Place: A Tess Monaghan Mystery
by Laura Lippman
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: Aug 2003
"Lippman, reporter for the Baltimore Sun, excels at vivid portraits of her town's offbeat neighborhoods, hangouts and inhabitants. Seen through the eyes of her protagonist--a smart, funny P.I. named Tess Monaghan--Baltimore is never dull."
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The Demon In The Freezer
by Richard Preston
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: Aug 2003
A team of leading US scientists are doing controversial experiments with live smallpox virus at CDC. Preston takes us into the lab where they are reawakening smallpox and explains, with cool and devastating precision, what may be at stake if this ...
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I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother
by Allison Pearson
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: Aug 2003
In a novel that is at once uproariously funny and achingly sad, Allison Pearson captures the guilty secret lives of working women--the self-recrimination, the comic deceptions, the giddy exhaustion, the despair--as no other writer has.
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Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters
by Dr. JoAnn Deak, Teresa Barker
Hardcover: Aug 2002
Paperback: Aug 2003
Looks past the "scare" stories to those that enlighten parents and enable them to empower girls. Offers a comprehensive road map to the many emotional and physical challenges girls ages six to sixteen face in today's challenging world.
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The Fruit of Stone
by Mark Spragg
Hardcover: Aug 2002
Paperback: Aug 2003
Muscular, vivid, wise, tender, funny, and true: Mark Spragg's much-anticipated first novel is entirely unforgettable.
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Absolute Rage
by Robert K. Tanenbaum
Hardcover: Aug 2002
Paperback: Jul 2003
Tanenbaum delivers his grittiest, most ethically challenging thriller yet, as New York chief assistant district attorney Butch Karp fights for his family in the wilds of West Virginia's coal mining country.
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The Whore's Child
by Richard Russo
Hardcover: Jul 2002
Paperback: Jul 2003
With a fluency of tone that will surprise even his devoted readers these short stories capture both bewildering horror and heartrending tenderness with an absorbing, compassionate authority.
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The Apprentice
by Tess Gerritsen
Hardcover: Aug 2002
Paperback: Jul 2003
The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns—and so does that chilling novel's diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . ...
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The Lobster Chronicles: Life On A Very Small Island
by Linda Greenlaw
Hardcover: Jul 2002
Paperback: Jul 2003
With fascinating nautical descriptions and her eye for the dramas of small-town life, Greenlaw does for lobstering what her first book, The Hungry Ocean, did for swordfishing. Honest, funny, scrappy, and authentic.
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Grave Secrets: A Novel
by Kathy Reichs
Hardcover: Jul 2002
Paperback: Jul 2003
Dr Temperance Brennan finds herself in a dangerous web that stretches far beyond Guatemala's borders in a powerful, page-turning book that combines riveting authenticity with witty, elegant prose.
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The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire
by Andrew Marshall
Hardcover: Mar 2002
Paperback: Jul 2003
An offbeat and thrilling journey through a lost colonial heritage--and a powerful expose of Burma's modern tragedy.
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Rain Fall
by Barry Eisler
Hardcover: Jul 2002
Paperback: Jul 2003
A stylish thriller debut introducing John Rain--a Japanese-American freelance assassin and warrior for the 21st century.
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Bad Boy Brawly Brown: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
by Walter Mosley
Hardcover: Jul 2002
Paperback: Jul 2003
The worldliness, relentlessness, and passion of Easy Rawlins have been sorely missed from the world of fiction. This thriller is proof that Walter Mosley is one of the masters of crime fiction, and as original a voice as any writing in America today.
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White Male Infant
by Barbara D'Amato
Hardcover: Jun 2002
Paperback: Jul 2003
McSweeny and his wife dearly love their adopted Russian son - but when medical tests indicate that the boy is not Russian they are plunged into the dark, complex world of international adoption. The results threaten to destroy their happiness - and ...
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When The Elephants Dance
by Tess Uriza Holthe
Hardcover: Jan 2002
Paperback: Jul 2003
Once in a great while comes a storyteller who can illuminate worlds large and small, magical and true to life. Holthe's first novel is set at the end of WWII, as the Japanese and the Americans engage in a fierce battle for possession of the ...
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How to Behave So Your Children Will, Too!
by Dr. Sal Severe
Hardcover: Jul 2000
Paperback: Jul 2003
Children learn what they live...your children do as you do." Instead of focusing on what children do wrong, this book teaches parents what they can do right.
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Running with Scissors: A Memoir
by Augusten Burroughs
Hardcover: Jul 2002
Paperback: Jun 2003
The true story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment.
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Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Volume I
by Lian Hearn
Hardcover: Aug 2002
Paperback: Jun 2003
A world-wide sensation, this first book of The Otori Trilogy is a brilliantly imagined, wholly seductive tale of war, passion, and intrigue, evoking the spirit of medieval Japan.
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