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The Anti-Romantic Child: A Memoir of Unexpected Joy

by Priscilla Gilman

Published: 2012-04-24

Paperback: 304 pages

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Priscilla Gilman, a teacher of romantic poetry who embraced Wordsworth's vision of childhood's spontaneous wonder, eagerly anticipated the birth of her first child, certain that he would come "trailing clouds of glory." But as Benjamin grew, his remarkable precocity was associated with a d...

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The Anti-Romantic Child: A Story of Unexpected Joy

by Priscilla Gilman

Published: 2011-04-19

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Priscilla Gilman had the greatest expectations for the birth of her first child. Growing up in New York City amongst writers, artists, and actors, Gilman experienced childhood as a whirlwind of imagination, creativity, and spontaneity. As a Wordsworth scholar, she celebrated and embraced ...

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Published: 2012-11-27

Hardcover: 544 pages

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world.   Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress t...

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Antiques to Die For (Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries)

by Jane K. Cleland

Published: 2008-04-15

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Since Josie Prescott left a high-paying job in New York to set up shop as an antiques appraiser on the rugged New Hampshire coast, her life has not gone exactly according to plan. In many ways, it's gone better: She has a booming business, good friends and neighbors, and even a promising r...

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Ants on the Melon: A Collection of Poems (Modern Library Paperbacks)

by Virginia Adair

Published: 1999-03-16

Paperback: 176 pages

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"��������Virginia Adair speaks directly and unaffectedly, in an accent stripped of mannerism and allusion. Ants on the Melon exhibits enough formal variety, freshness, and intelligence to confirm, at one stroke, that Ms. Adair is a poet of accomplishment and originality."--Brad Leithauser,...

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Any Bitter Thing : A Novel

by Monica Wood

Published: 2006-04-25

Paperback: 368 pages

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After surviving a near-fatal accident, thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell faces a long road to recovery. She remembers little about the days she spent in and out of consciousness, save for one thing: She saw her beloved deceased uncle, Father Mike, the man who raised her in the rectory of his Maine church...

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Any Given Day: The Life and Times of Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux

by Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux

Published: 1997-11

Hardcover: 287 pages

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A remarkable and resilient woman, 98-year-old Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux has chronicled her life, an existence that reflects the entire 20th century and from which universal truths emerge. Hallmark Productions has optioned the story for a four-hour TV miniseries.Born in 1899, Jessie Lee Brow...

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Any Human Heart

by William Boyd

Published: 2004-01-06

Paperback: 512 pages

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William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart—writer, lover, art dealer, spy—as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century.

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Any Known Blood

by Lawrence Hill

Published: 2008-11-21

Paperback: 528 pages

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Spanning five generations, sweeping across a century and a half of almost unknown history, this acclaimed and unexpectedly funny novel is the story of a man seeking himself in the mirror of his family's past. There were Canes in Canada before the United States erupted into civil war. Their...

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Any Minute: A Novel

by Joyce Meyer, Deborah Bedford

Published: 2009-06-30

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Sarah Harper is driven to achieve success no matter what the cost. She wants to do good and not hurt the people she loves--especially children and her husband, Joe--but her desire to succeed in her career too often leaves little time for family. One cold, autumn afternoon, all of that chan...