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On Bear Mountain

by Deborah Smith

Published: 2009-11-01

Paperback: 280 pages

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Dirt-poor, sensitive as poets, and proud as kings, the Powell family has lived on a Georgia mountaintop for generations. Then, during the 1960's, young Ursula Powell's father convinces the Tiber family, owners everything in nearby Tiberville, to commission a huge iron sculpture of a bear for the town....

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* * * Interesting,
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On Beauty

by Zadie Smith

Published: 2005-09-13

Hardcover: 464 pages

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Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. T...

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* * * Persuasive,
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On Becoming Fearless: ...in Love, Work, and Life

by Arianna Huffington

Published: 2007-04-09

Paperback: 240 pages

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Observing that her own teenage daughters were beginning to experience some of the same fears that had once burdened her--how attractive am I? do people like me? do I dare speak up?--Arianna Huffington began to examine the ways in which fear affects all our lives. In stories drawn from her own experiences...

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On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual (Penguin Classics)

by Merle Miller

Published: 2012-09-25

Paperback: 96 pages

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The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America?available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan SavageOriginally published in 1971, Merle Miller's On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States. Jus...

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On Borrowed Wings: A Novel

by Chandra Prasad

Published: 2008-09-09

Paperback: 336 pages

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Adele Pietra has heard her mother say that her destiny is carved in the same brilliantly hued granite her father and brother cleave from the Stony Creek mine: she is to marry a quarryman. But when Adele's brother, Charles, dies in a mining accident, Adele sees the chance to change her life...

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On Bullshit

by Harry Frankfurt

Published: 2005-01-30

Hardcover: 67 pages

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A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and...

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On Canaan's Side: A Novel

by Sebastian Barry

Published: 2011-09-08

Hardcover: 272 pages

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From the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America. Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss ...

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On Chesil Beach

by Ian Mcewan

Published: 2008

Paperback: 166 pages

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* * * Pointless,
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On Chesil Beach: A Novel

by Ian McEwan

Published: 2007-06-05

Hardcover: 203 pages

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A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University Coll...

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On Death and Dying (Scribner Classics)

by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Published: 1997-07-02

Hardcover: 288 pages

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One of the most famous psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of an interdisciplinary seminar on death, originated and conducted by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. In On Death and Dying, Dr. Kübler-Ross first introduced and explored the now-famous ide...