Books with 250-400 pages
250-400 Pages
Recommended books found: 2,911
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Consent
by Ben Schrank
Hardcover: Mar 2002
Paperback: Mar 2003
Paints a poignant, surprising, and ultimately profound portrait of a young man facing the universal challenge of balancing passion with wisdom.
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The Good, The Bad and The Difference: How to Tell Right from Wrong in Everyday Life
by Randy Cohen
Hardcover: Mar 2002
Paperback: Mar 2003
The man behind the New York Times Magazine's immensely popular column "The Ethicist"--syndicated in newspapers across the USA and Canada as "Everyday Ethics"-- presents a provocative, thematic collection of advice on how to be good in the real world.
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The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants
by Ann Brashares
Hardcover: Sep 2001
Paperback: Mar 2003
A fresh, lively look at the friendship of four teenagers facing the possibility of growing apart. Poignant, funny, and real, this story will remind you of all the best parts of being best friends.
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Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
by Giles Milton
Hardcover: Jan 2003
Paperback: Feb 2003
An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg.
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Justice Hall: A Mary Russell Novel
by Laurie R. King
Hardcover: Mar 2002
Paperback: Feb 2003
A brilliant blend of traditional (Sherlock)Holmesian myth, startling originality, complex plotting, and unforgettable characters set against a fully realized early-twentieth-century world.
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
Hardcover: Feb 2002
Paperback: Feb 2003
The early life of the Son of God, including the missing years as told by his childhood friend Biff. "An instant classic...terrific, funny and poignant".
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Desirable Daughters: A Novel
by Bharati Mukherjee
Hardcover: Feb 2002
Paperback: Feb 2003
A stirring novel of three women, two continents, and a perilous journey from the old world to the new - weaves together fascinating stories of the sisters' ancestors, their childhood memories, and dramatic scenes from India's history.
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Report From Ground Zero: The Story of the Rescue Efforts at the World Trade Center
by Dennis Smith
Hardcover: Mar 2002
Paperback: Feb 2003
Captures the horror and chaos of those first terrifying hours, and the ensuing anger and grief and determination.
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Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent
by David Henry Sterry
Hardcover: Feb 2002
Paperback: Feb 2003
The funny, touching story of a sweet, wide-eyed son of Seventies Suburbia who spends a year as a teenage sex worker servicing rich, lonely women in Beverly Hills. A gripping story that explores what it means to suffer through the underbelly of the ...
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The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
Hardcover: Jan 2002
Paperback: Feb 2003
Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun - a novel unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe.
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Southampton Row
by Anne Perry
Hardcover: Feb 2002
Paperback: Feb 2003
Another perilous case for Thomas Pitt. His enemy Charles Voissey is running for Parliament as a Tory, and the wife of his liberal opponent was present at a seance run by a not-so-foresightful clairvoyant: she was subsequently murdered.
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Hunting Season
by Nevada Barr
Hardcover: Feb 2002
Paperback: Feb 2003
Tightly plotted, brilliantly suspenseful, and beautifully written, Hunting Season offers solid evidence that mankind can be as unpredictable and dangerous as the great outdoors.
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Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
Hardcover: Jan 2002
Paperback: Feb 2003
Deftly leading readers around the world and across cultures and centuries, Kurlansky takes an inexpensive, mundane item and shows how it has influenced and affected wars, cultures, governments, religions, societies, economies & food. An entertaining,...
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The Wonder of Girls: Understanding the Hidden Nature of Our Daughters
by Michael Gurian
Hardcover: Dec 2001
Paperback: Feb 2003
Explains what is "normal" for girls each year from birth to age 20; focusing on developmental needs; how to communicate effectively with girls; and how to cope with developmental crises.
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Vine of Desire
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Hardcover: Jan 2002
Paperback: Feb 2003
A moving and satisfying sequel to Sister of My Heart, The Vine of Desire stands on its own as a novel of extraordinary depth and sensitivity.
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Breaking Clean: A Memoir
by Judy Blunt
Hardcover: Feb 2002
Paperback: Jan 2003
Blunt has turned the memories of her childhood and young adulthood in rural Montana into a beautifully written memoir that is a meditation on how land and her life will always be intertwined. A must read.
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Seraglio
by Janet Wallach
Hardcover: Jan 2003
Transporting readers to the menacing yet majestic world of eighteenth-century Turkey, biographer and Middle East expert Janet Wallach brilliantly re-imagines the life of Aimee Dubucq, cousin of Empress Josephine and concubine to the Sultan.
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The Carnivorous Carnival: Book the Ninth (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
Hardcover: Oct 2002
Paperback: Jan 2003
In the continuing, appalling tales of the Baudelaire siblings, the children
are on the run having been falsely accused of murder, so they hide in the
carnival, as part of Madame Lulu's House of Freaks. Ages 9+
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The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
Hardcover: Jan 2002
Paperback: Jan 2003
A mesmerizing novel about women with extraordinary gifts coping with loss, finding forgiveness and especially, learning to forgive themselves. Kidd's strong, irresistible voice catches us up and doesn't let go.
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The Lake of Dead Languages
by Carol Goodman
Hardcover: Jan 2002
Paperback: Jan 2003
An eloquent thriller, an intricate balance of suspense and fine storytelling that proves Carol Goodman is a rare new talent with a brilliant future.
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