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- French exit : a tragedy of manners / by DeWitt, Patrick,1975-author.;
"Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's the Price's aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts. Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self-destruction and economic ruin - to riotous effect. A number of singular characters serve to round out the cast: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic proposing a seance, a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow, and the inimitable Mme. Reynard, aggressive houseguest and dementedly friendly American expat. Brimming with pathos and wit, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind 'tragedy of manners,' a riotous send-up of high society, as well as a moving mother and son caper which only Patrick deWitt could conceive and execute."--- Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Families; Mothers and sons;
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- We were eight years in power : an American tragedy / by Coates, Ta-Nehisi,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.- Subjects: Political culture;
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- Leningrad : tragedy of a city under siege, 1941-44 / by Reid, Anna.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- © c2011., Allen Lane Canada,
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- Titanic : the tragedy that shook the world : one century later. -- by Life Books (Firm);
LSC- Subjects: Titanic (Steamship).; Shipwrecks;
- © c2012., Time Home Entertainment Inc.,
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- American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / by Bird, Kai,author.; Sherwin, Martin J.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Biographies.; Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.; Atomic bomb; Physicists; Science;
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- Little brother : love, tragedy, and my search for the truth / by Westhoff, Ben,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In the tradition of such intimate, piercing explorations of race and inequality in America as The Other Wes Moore and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Little Brother tells the story of investigative journalist Ben Westhoff's relationship with Jorell Cleveland through the Big Brother, Big Sister program in St. Louis, Missouri, and investigates Jorell's tragic unsolved murder at the age of nineteen"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Cleveland, Jorell.; Murder; Murder;
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- A mother's reckoning : living in the aftermath of tragedy / by Klebold, Sue.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Klebold, Dylan, 1981-1999.; Klebold, Sue.; Columbine High School (Littleton, Colo.); Columbine High School Massacre, Littleton, Colo., 1999.; Mothers; School shootings;
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- A time to die : the untold story of the Kursk tragedy / by Moore, Robert,1963-;
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- Subjects: Kursk (Submarine); Submarine disasters; Submarine disasters;
- © 2002., Random House Canada,
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- The famine plot : England's role in Ireland's greatest tragedy / by Coogan, Tim Pat,1935-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Chronology of the famine -- Setting the scene -- Born to filth -- A million deaths of no use -- Five actors and the orchards of hell -- Meal use -- Evictions -- The work schemes -- The workhouse -- Soup and souperism -- The Poor Law cometh -- Landlords targeted -- Emigration : escape by coffin ship -- The propaganda of famine."A bold new history of the great famine that holds the British government accountable"--P. [2] of cover.- Subjects: Ireland;
- © c2012., Palgrave Macmillan,
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- The poisoned city : Flint's water and the American urban tragedy / by Clark, Anna,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Drinking water; Drinking water; Health risk assessment; Heavy metals;
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