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The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

by Mary Rose O'Reilley

Published: 2001-10-10

Paperback: 344 pages

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Transcendence can come in many forms. For Mary Rose O’Reilley a year tending sheep seemed a way to seek a spirituality based not on “climbing out of the body” but rather on existing fully in the world, at least if she could overlook some of its earthier aspects. The Barn ...

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Barney's Version (Vintage International)

by Mordecai Richler

Published: 2010-05-04

Paperback: 417 pages

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Barney Panofsky?Canadian expat, wily lover of women, writer, television producer, raconteur?is finally putting pen to paper so he can rebut the charges about him made in his rival's autobiography.� Whether it's ranting about his bohemian misadventures during the 1950's in Paris, his tumult...

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Barrel Fever and Other Stories

by David Sedaris

Published: 2001-10-01

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David Sedaris' first collection of comic stories and essays. Performed by the author and his sister Amy Sedaris, this program is described by the New York Post as "a nuclear barrage of humor you could never replicate by reading this material on your own."

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Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

by David Sedaris

Published: 1995-06-01

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Short stories and essays by an apartment cleaner and a popular commentator for National Public Radio highlight the absurd behavior of modern Americans, such as the suburban dad who saves money by performing surgery at home. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.A collection of stories and e...

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Barrelhouse Boys

by Joel Williamsen

Published: 2009-11-05

Paperback: 536 pages

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It is 1894, and Nebraska's glittering state capital draws young Bud Gardner away from drought and poverty towards a precarious existence within his uncle's saloon, extended family and eccentric circle of bootleggers. But amidst the whores, oddballs, and shady characters of Lincoln's Haymarket district,...

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The Barrett Solution

by Robert Norris

Published: 2011-06-07

Paperback: 272 pages

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During the investigation of a murder in rural Texas, Lieutenant Mark Owens uncovers the highly guarded secrets of a CIA black operation. The trail leads to the Oval Office. With a presidential election looming the White House will resort to extreme measures to cover up their illegal activities. Owens...

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The Barrister's Gavel

by Nkorni Tankwa

Published: 2011-12-08

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The real life mystery of a stolen Rembrandt, an unconventional case, buried family secrets, backroom deals, lies, unseen truths and murder. The Barrister's Gavel will keep you guessing with twists and turns as it races from the Hoover building in D.C through the corridors of our judicial s...

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The Barrister's Gavel: A Daxton Longhorn Novel

by Nkorni Tankwa

Published: 2011-08-08

Paperback: 264 pages

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Self-proclaimed lifelong bachelor Daxton Longhorn isn't afraid of breaking the rules. He's the most beloved and well-known dance instructor in all of Essex County, New Jersey. So what if he sleeps with the occasional married woman? It doesn't affect his dancing. It doesn't even affect his life in the...

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The Bartender's Tale

by Ivan Doig

Published: 2013-08-06

Paperback: 414 pages

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A national bestseller, the story of “a boy’s last days of youth and a history his father can’t leave behind” (The Daily Beast).Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge in the town o...

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Bartleby & Co.

by Enrique Vila-Matas

Published: 2007-05-23

Paperback: 178 pages

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A marvelous novel by one of Spain's most important contemporary authors, in which a clerk in a Barcelona office takes us on a romping tour of world literature.In Bartleby & Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in literature: the writers ...