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Nonfiction (or go to Fiction)

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
by Mary Beard
DG70 .P7 B43 2008 [Main Library 4th floor]
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American Homicide
by Randolph Roth
HV6524 .R68 2009 [Main Library 5th floor]
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Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of "Fitzcarraldo"
by Werner Herzog; trans. by Krishna Winston
PN1998.3 .H477 A3 2009 [Main Library 3rd floor]
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Sneaker Wars: The Enemy Brothers Who Founded Adidas and Puma and the Family Feud That Forever Changed the Business of Sport
by Barbara Smit
HD9992 .G34 A354 2008 [Main Library 5th floor]
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What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President? Jimmy Carter, America’s "Malaise," and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country
by Kevin Mattson
E873.2 .M386 2009 [Main Library 4th floor]
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Fiction

Hakawati
by Rabih Alammedine
PS3551 .L215  H35 2008  [Main Library 3rd floor]
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Await Your Reply: A Novel
by Dan Chaon
PS3553 .H277 A95 2009 [Main Library 3rd floor]
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Inherent Vice
by Thomas Pynchon
PS3566 .Y55 I54 2009 [Main Library 3rd floor]
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Olive Kitteridge
By Elizabeth Strout
PS3569 .T736 O5 2008 [Main Library 3rd floor]
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Wheeling Motel
by Franz Wright
PS3573 .R5327 W54 2009 [Main Library 3rd floor]
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