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Shopgirl

by Steve Martin

Published: 2001-06-21

Paperback: 220 pages

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Mirabelle works as a shop assistant in the glove department at Niemans, L.A.'s finest store; she also draws darkly gothic pictures at night. Adrift in the world and lonely, her situation is not improved by the fact that hardly anyone buys the kind of gloves that Niemans sell so she spends most of her...

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Shopgirl.

by Steve Martin

Published: 2002-02-01

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A Shore Thing: An Otter Bay Novel

by Julie Carobini

Published: 2010-07-01

Paperback: 392 pages

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Callie Duflay just isn't like the rest of her family. While they've built white collar lives, she prefers getting her hands dirty by working with children and local California causes. When Callie learns that a beloved piece of untouched property in her town of Otter Bay may soon be developed, she confronts...

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The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal

by Jonathan Mooney

Published: 2008-05-27

Paperback: 288 pages

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“What makes this journey so inspiring is Mooney’s transcendent humor; the self he has become does not turn away from old pain but can laugh at it, make fun of it, make it into something beautiful.”—Los Angeles TimesLabeled “dyslexic and profoundly learning disabled,” Jonathan M...

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* * * * Optimistic,
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A Short Guide to a Happy Life

by Anna Quindlen

Published: 2000-10-31

Hardcover: 64 pages

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From the author of Blessings and Still Life with Bread Crumbs, Anna Quindlen’s classic reflection on a meaningful life is the perfect gift for graduation, or any occasion.“Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they ca...

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* * * Informative,
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A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

Published: 2004-09-14

Paperback: 544 pages

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One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned C...

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A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition

by Bill Bryson

Published: 2010-10-05

Paperback: 624 pages

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This new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson’s exciting, informative journey into the world of science.In A Short History of Nearly Everything, beloved author Bill Bryson confronts his greatest challenge yet: to unde...

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by Bill Bryson

Published: 2004-06-01

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Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the ris...

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A Short History of the Korean War

by James L. Stokesbury

Published: 1990-01-30

Paperback: 280 pages

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As pungent and concise as his short histories of both world wars, Stokesbury's survey of "the half war" takes a broad view and seems to leave nothing out but the details. The first third covers the North Korean invasion of June 1950, the Pusan perimeter crisis, MacArthur's master stroke at...

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A SHORT HISTORY OF TRACTOR IN UKRAINIAN

by Marina Lewycka

Published: 2005-03-17

Hardcover: 304 pages

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When their recently widowed father announces that he plans to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda realize that they must learn to put aside a lifetime of bitter rivalry in order to save him. The new woman in his life is Valentina, a voluptuous gold-digger from Ukraine, fifty years his junio...