Books with 250-400 pages
250-400 Pages
Recommended books found: 2,911
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The Grand Complication
by Allen Kurzweil
Hardcover: Aug 2001
Paperback: Aug 2002
A delicious compendium of quirky colleagues, erotic pop-ups, deviant passions, and miraculous examples of theft, the book is a grand and complicated "timepiece," told with a devilish sense of fun.
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Snapshots
by William Norris
Hardcover: Aug 2001
Paperback: Aug 2002
Norris lays bare the secrets that family members keep from themselves and each other, and ultimately tells a hopeful story about the bonds of flesh and blood and shared experience. A story about the real, hard-won joy of family.
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Blue Diary
by Alice Hoffman
Hardcover: Jul 2001
Paperback: Aug 2002
The courage to face the unthinkable is at the core of this magnificent new novel. How do we manage to confront the truths in our lives and find forgiveness in the most unforgiving of circumstances?
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I Wish I Had A Red Dress
by Pearl Cleage
Hardcover: Jul 2001
Paperback: Jul 2002
Cleage captures the mores, culture, and rhythm of black urban youth and the romantic tensions between mature black adults as she weaves contemporary issues into a love story.
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Sharpe's Trafalgar
by Bernard Cornwell
Hardcover: Jun 2001
Paperback: Jul 2002
A dazzling nautical adventure that finds ensign Richard Sharpe in the middle of one of history's most spectacular naval engagements: the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar.
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The Associate
by Phillip Margolin
Hardcover: Aug 2001
Paperback: Jul 2002
A mesmerizing tale of deceit and criminal stealth in the high-stakes world of pharmaceutical research from the master of the courtroom thriller.
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Hostage
by Robert Crais
Hardcover: Aug 2001
Paperback: Jul 2002
A blistering stand-alone thriller with superb characters, a multistranded polt and pitch-perfect Southern California sensibility.
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Turning On The Girls: A Novel
by Cheryl Benard
Hardcover: Feb 2001
Paperback: Jul 2002
Cheryl Benard's deftly comic novel gives us a chance to envision a world designed by women.... It's 2000 something, the world has just been taken over by women, and things are wonderful. Meanwhile, a secret men's movement, is planning a violent ...
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Creeker: A Woman's Journey
by Linda Scott DeRosier
Hardcover: Oct 1999
Paperback: Jul 2002
A humorous and poignant memoir of an educated and cultured woman who came of age in Appalachia. A story of relationships, the challenges and consequences of choice, and the impact of the past on the present.
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The Month of The Leopard
by James Harland
Paperback: Jun 2002
An economist with one of London's leading investment banks finds himself unraveling a mystery which dates back over half a century - all clues lead to the Leopard Fund led by a cold, ruthlessly calculating financial kingpin.
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Spectacular Happiness
by Peter D. Kramer
Hardcover: Jul 2001
Paperback: Jun 2002
Darkly intelligent, provocative, compelling and stunning in its execution. This is the masterful first novel that Kramer's nonfiction has led his readers and reviewers to expect.
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Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women
by Alexa Albert
Hardcover: May 2001
Paperback: Jun 2002
When Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study at The Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada (where prostitution is legal) she was drawn into the lives of the women and her project evolved into something more intimate and ambitious.
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Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
Hardcover: May 2001
Paperback: Jun 2002
From the author of the international sensation Fight Club, a powerful (and hilarious) novel about love and strife between mothers and sons, the addictive power of sex, the terrors of aging, the ugly truth about historical theme parks, and much else. ...
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
Hardcover: May 2001
Paperback: Jun 2002
'Combining an unerring instinct for telling detail with the broader brushstrokes you need to tackle issues of culture and politics, Patchett creates a remarkably compelling chronicle of a multinational group of the rich and powerful held hostage ...
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Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Adventure
by Janet Evanovich
Hardcover: Jun 2001
Paperback: Jun 2002
When semi-retired mob guy, DeChooch, fails to show for a court appearance, bond enforcement agent Stephanie Plum is assigned the task of finding DeChooch and dragging him back to jail.
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In The Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
by Michela Wrong
Hardcover: Apr 2001
Paperback: Jun 2002
"Provocative, touching, and sensitively written ... an eloquent, brilliantly researched account and a remarkably sympathetic study of a tragic land". "This book will become a classic"
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Fearless Jones
by Walter Mosley
Hardcover: Jun 2001
Paperback: Jun 2002
Walter Mosley, "one of crime fiction's brightest stars," returns to mysteries at last! Fearless Jones is a dazzling new thriller, set in 1950s L.A. and featuring the most engaging hero since Easy Rawlins.
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P Is For Peril
by Sue Grafton
Hardcover: Jun 2001
Paperback: Jun 2002
Enter the world of noir - a world cast in shades of black amid shafts of steel and silver, a shadow land in which the mysterious disappearance of a prominent physician leads Kinsey into a danger-filled maze of duplicity and double-dealing.
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Chalktown
by Melinda Haynes
Hardcover: May 2001
Paperback: Jun 2002
Melinda Haynes weaves her characters lives and stories into an unforgettable tapestry of sorrow and salvation that confirms her place as one of our countrys most exciting and consistently brilliant new writers.
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Five Quarters of The Orange
by Joanne Harris
Hardcover: May 2001
Paperback: Jun 2002
A literary feast for the senses. Five Quarters of the Orange is a novel in which darkness and fierce joy come together to create an unforgettable story.
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