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The Winter of Our Disconnect: How One Family Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell

by Susan Maushart

Published: 2011-01

Paperback: 302 pages

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They did it. Could you? For any parent who has ever IM-ed their child to the dinner table - or yanked the modem from its socket in a show of primal parental rage - this account of one family's self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you ROFLing (Roll on the Floor Laughing) with recognition....

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The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale

by Susan Maushart

Published: 2011-01-20

Paperback: 280 pages

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The wise and hilarious story of a family who discovered that having fewer tools to communicate with led them to actually communicate more. When Susan Maushart first announced her intention to pull the plug on her family's entire armory of electronic weaponry for six months-from the itsy-b...

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The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Modern Classics)

by John Steinbeck

Published: 2001-05-03

Paperback: 288 pages

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Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Classics (Prebound))

by John Steinbeck

Published: 2008-09

Unknown Binding: 0 pages

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Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of the family wealth, the hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, characterizes success in every era and in all its forms as robbery, murder,...

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The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Classics)

by John Steinbeck

Published: 2008-08-26

Paperback: 336 pages

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The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis   In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an in...

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The Winter of Our Discontent

by John Steinbeck

Published: 2008-08-26

Kindle Edition: 292 pages

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The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis   In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an in...

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Winter of the World: Book Two of the Century Trilogy

by Ken Follett

Published: 2013-08-27

Paperback: 972 pages

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Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary historical epic Century Trilogy, was an international sensation, acclaimed as ?sweeping and fascinating, a book that will consume you for days or weeks” (USA Today). Now Winter of the World picks up right where the fi...

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The Winter Palace

by Eva Stachniak

Published: 2012-01-03

Paperback: 464 pages

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Behind every great ruler lies a betrayal. Eva Stachniak's novel sweeps readers into the passionate, intimate, and treacherous world of Catherine the Great, revealing Russia's greatest matriarch from her earliest days in court, where the most valuable currency was the secrets of nobility an...

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The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great

by Eva Stachniak

Published: 2012-10-23

Paperback: 480 pages

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • The Washington Post   From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only fiction can, the early life of one of history’s boldest women. The Winter Palace tells the epic stor...

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The Winter Queen: A Novel (Erast Fandorin Mysteries)

by Boris Akunin

Published: 2004-03-09

Paperback: 264 pages

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Moscow, May 1876. What would cause a talented student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public? Decadence and boredom, it is presumed. But young sleuth Erast Fandorin is not satisfied with the conclusion that this death is an open-and-shut case, nor with the preliminary...