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The Man Who Ate Everything

by Jeffrey Steingarten

Published: 1998-10-27

Paperback: 528 pages

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Winner of the Julia Child Book Award A James Beard Book Award FinalistWhen Jeffrey Steingarten was appointed food critic for Vogue, he systematically set out to overcome his distaste for such things as kimchi, lard, Greek cuisine, and blue food. He succeeded at all but the last: Steingart...

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The Man Who Invented Christmas: How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

by Les Standiford

Published: 2008-11-04

Hardcover: 256 pages

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As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how one writer and one book revived the signal holiday of the Western world.Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publishe...

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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

by Allison Hoover Bartlett

Published: 2010-10-05

Paperback: 288 pages

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In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief, his victims, and the man determined to catch him. Rare-book theft is even more widespread than fine-art theft. Mos...

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The Man Who Loved China LP: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

by Simon Winchester

Published: 2008-06-01

Paperback: 496 pages

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In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"?New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"?Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Camb...

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The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (P.S.)

by Simon Winchester

Published: 2009-05-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham?the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing nudist who unlocked the most closely held secre...

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The Man Who Loved Jane Austen

by Sally Smith O'Rourke

Published: 2006-04-01

Paperback: 291 pages

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The Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist

by Abigail Reynolds

Published: 2010-05-04

Paperback: 439 pages

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A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist.. . Marine biologist Cassie Boulton has no patience when a modern-day Mr. Darcy appears in her lab on Cape Cod. Proud, aloof Calder Westing III is the scion of a famous political family, while Cassie's success is hard-won in spite of a shameful ...

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The Man Who Made Lists

by Joshua Kendall

Published: 2008-03-13

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

by Oliver Sacks

Published: 1998-04-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders.Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat ...

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The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell: Confessions of a Bank Robber

by Joe Loya

Published: 2005-10-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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Joe Loya's idyllic childhood came to an abrupt end when his mother was diagnosed with a terminal illness. In the two years before her death, Joe's extremely religious father became increasingly violent toward his two young sons-a contradiction that haunted Joe for years. Then, at age sixte...