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A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East
David Fromkin
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001
A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
Tori Murden McClure
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009
A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
Robert M. Sapolsky
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
John Seelye, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
E.L. Konigsburg, E. L. Konigsburg
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2001
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Paul A. Offit
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Paper Princess (The Royals, #1)
Erin Watt, Jen Frederick, Elle Kennedy
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2016
Paradise Road (Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 67)
Kirk Nesset
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Martha A. Sandweiss
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Orson Scott Card
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997
Pather Panchali: Song of the Road
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1975
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
Paul Farmer, Amartya Sen
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004
Pearl Buck in China: Journey to The Good Earth
Hilary Spurling
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
China Miéville, China Mieville
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003
Pericles
Barbara A. Mowat, William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine
Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005
Personal History: A Memoir
Katharine Graham
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998
Petals on the Wind (Dollanganger, #2)
V. C. Andrews, V.C. Andrews
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1998
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
J.M. Barrie, J. M. Barrie, Arthur Rackham
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2008
Peter the Great: His Life and World
Robert K. Massie
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
Maya Angelou
Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1995
Philaster (Arden Early Modern Drama)
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Suzanne Gossett
Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2009
Philosophical Investigations
G.E.M. Anscombe, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
John Fleischman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004
Piers Plowman
William Langland, Elizabeth Robertson, Stephen H. A. Shepherd
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2006
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Robert Kurson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015
Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
John Phillip Santos
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
Richard Beeman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
David Halberstam
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000
Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine
George Dohrmann
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3)
Agatha Christie
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2020
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Esther Duflo, Abhijit V. Banerjee, Abhijit Banerjee
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011