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The Opposite of Me: A Novel

by Sarah Pekkanen

Published: 2010-02-17

Kindle Edition: 404 pages

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Twenty-nine-year-old Lindsey Rose has, for as long as she can remember, lived in the shadow of her devastatingly beautiful fraternal twin sister, Alex. Determined to get noticed, Lindsey is finally on the cusp of being named creative vice president of an elite New York advertising agency, after years...

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The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain

by Tali Sharot

Published: 2011-06-14

Hardcover: 272 pages

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From one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today, an investigation into the bias toward optimism that exists on a neural level in our brains and plays a major part in determining how we live our lives.  Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an often irr...

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Optimist's Daughter

by Eudora Welty

Published: 1996-11

Hardcover: 208 pages

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The Optimist's Daughter

by Eudora Welty

Published: 2011-01-13

Paperback: 192 pages

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This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations.From the Trade Paperback edition.The Optimist's Daughter is a compact and inward-looking little novel, a Pulitzer Prize winner that's slight of page yet big of heart. The optimist...

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* * * * Beautiful,
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The Optimist's Daughter: A Novel

by Eudora Welty

Published: 2002-05-07

Hardcover: 192 pages

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?It is easy to praise Eudora Welty,? as Robert Penn Warren has written, ?but it is not so easy to analyze the elements in her work that make it so easy?and such a deep plea-sure?to praise. To say that may, indeed, be the highest praise, for it implies that the work, at its best, is so full...

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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (P.S.)

by Peter Hessler

Published: 2007-05-01

Paperback: 528 pages

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A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western ...

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The Oracle Glass

by Judith Merkle Riley

Published: 2012-11-06

Paperback: 544 pages

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New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! "Absorbing and arresting." —New York Times "Fascinating and factual." —Los Angeles Times "Chilly, witty, and completely engrossing ... great, good fun." — Kirkus Reviews "An outstanding historical novel of 17th–century France ... based on...

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The Oracle of Stamboul: A Novel

by Michael David Lukas

Published: 2011-02-01

Hardcover: 304 pages

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An elegantly crafted, utterly enchanting debut novel set in a mystical, exotic world, in which a gifted young girl charms a sultan and changes the course of an empire's history Late in the summer of 1877, a flock of purple-and-white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town of Constanta ...

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The Oracle

by Korede K Abayomi

Published: 2011-04-06

Paperback: 136 pages

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This is a story of tradition and divination, based on a young man's upbringing in the new world, as told by the multitude of poems (over one hundred of them) that narrates his life. Follow Fadeyi through his misguided upbringing, and read into his defined life.

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Oral History

by Lee Smith

Published: 1984-07-12

Mass Market Paperback: 0 pages

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"Delightful and entertaining."PEOPLEWhen Jennifer, a college student, returns to her childhood home of Hoot Owl Holler with a tape recorder, the tales of murder and suicide, incest and blood ties, bring to life a vibrant story of a doomed family that still refuses to give up...."Deft and a...