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  • The Rabbit Factory
    The Rabbit Factory
    by Marshall Karp
    Hardcover: Apr 2006
    Paperback: Mar 2007
     
    Bringing a fresh duo of cops to the thriller set, The Rabbit Factory is both suspenseful and satiric; a taut mystery wrapped in sharp, comedic prose.
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  • Radical Evolution
    Radical Evolution : The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human
    by Joel Garreau
    Hardcover: May 2005
    Paperback: May 2006
     
    Taking us behind the scenes with today's foremost researchers and pioneers, Garreau reveals that the super powers of our comic-book heroes already exist, or are in development in hospitals, labs, and research facilities around the country -- ...
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  • The Radium Girls
    The Radium Girls : The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    by Kate Moore
    Hardcover: May 2017
    Paperback: Mar 2018
     
    The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger.
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  • Rain Reign
    Rain Reign
    by Ann M. Martin
    Hardcover: Oct 2014
     
    Hearts will break and spirits will soar for this powerful story, brilliantly told.
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  • Rain Village
    Rain Village
    by Carolyn Turgeon
    Hardcover: Oct 2006
     
    Rain Village casts a fabulous spell, pulling us into a world of mystery and possibility where love, friendship and loyalty might either destroy or set one free.
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  • Raising Cain
    Raising Cain : Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
    by Dan Kindlon, Michael Thompson Ph.D.
    Hardcover: Apr 1999
    Paperback: Apr 2000
     
    Powerfully written and deeply felt, Raising Cain will forever change the way we see our sons and will transform the way we help them to become happy and fulfilled young men.
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  • Raising Wrecker
    Raising Wrecker : A Novel
    by Summer Wood
    Hardcover: Feb 2011
    Paperback: Sep 2012
     
    Elegant, warm-hearted and utterly unsentimental, Wrecker is a stunning and deeply moving novel about motherhood and mistakes, survival and hope. (Published as Wrecker in hardcover)
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  • Ravelstein
    Ravelstein
    by Saul Bellow
    Hardcover: Apr 2000
    Paperback: May 2001
     
    "No contemporary of ours is more consistently brilliant and more defiantly risky than Saul Bellow." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review
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