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Eleanor Roosevelt's Life of Soul Searching and Self-Discovery

by Ann Atkins

Published: 2011-10-01

Paperback: 169 pages

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Transforming the power in Eleanor's story to your story starts now. Whatever the scale of your rendezvous with destiny, the fact remains it is up to you to live it. Eleanor's story is a do-it-yourself guide that shows us how to accomplish many things. From a childhood plagued with drunks and drama queens,...

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

by Tom Wolfe

Published: 1999

Paperback: 432 pages

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Wolfe takes a walk on the wild side with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters and writes about the 60s hippie culture.

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The Electric Michelangelo (P.S.)

by Sarah Hall

Published: 2005-10-11

Paperback: 368 pages

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Cy Parks is the Electric Michelangelo, an artist of extraordinary gifts whose medium happens to be the pliant, shifting canvas of the human body. Fleeing his mother's legacy -- a consumptives' hotel in a fading English seaside resort -- Cy reinvents himself in the incandescent honky-tonk o...

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Elegance

by Kathleen Tessaro

Published: 2004-03-31

Paperback: 336 pages

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Louise Canova should be happy and in love. But her actor husband seems to be growing distant and she doesn't know why. Is it her fault? The uncertainty and insecurity she thought she'd left behind in adolescence now come back to haunt her.But when she discovers a faded volume titled Elegan...

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Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

Published: 2009-05-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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Rene is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building. She maintains a carefully constructed persona as someone uncultivated but reliable, in keeping with what she feels a concierge should be. But beneath this facade lies the real Rene: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable...

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The Elegance of the Hedgehog

by Muriel Barbery

Published: 2008-09-02

Paperback: 336 pages

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The enthralling international bestseller. We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierg...

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* Unconvincing,
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The Elegant Gathering of White Snows

by Kris Radish

Published: 2003-06-10

Paperback: 321 pages

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Eight Women on a Journey That Will Change Their Lives as Lovers, Wives, Mothers, Daughters, FriendsJust after midnight in a small town in Wisconsin, eight women begin walking together down a rural highway. Career women, housewives, mothers, divorcées, and one ex–prom queen, they are clo...

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Elegies for the Brokenhearted: A Novel

by Christie Hodgen

Published: 2011-07-18

Paperback: 288 pages

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?Deeply, satisfyingly original. . . . Elegies is the literary equivalent of a hand grenade.??Joanna Smith Rakoff, New York Times Book ReviewWho are the people you?ll never forget? For Mary Murphy, there are five, eulogized here in an utterly unforgettable voice. Mary tells the story of her...

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Elegy for Eddie: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (P.S.)

by Jacqueline Winspear

Published: 2012-10-30

Paperback: 368 pages

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In this latest entry in Jacqueline Winspear’s acclaimed, bestselling mystery series—“less whodunits than why-dunits, more P.D. James than Agatha Christie” (USA Today)—Maisie Dobbs takes on her most personal case yet, a twisting investigation into the brutal killing of a street pe...

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Elegy for Iris

by John Bayley

Published: 2001-12-14

Paperback: 275 pages

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With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer's disease. Elegy for Iris is a story about the ephemeral beauty...