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This Beautiful Life: A Novel

by Helen Schulman

Published: 2011-08-02

Hardcover: 221 pages

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"ThisBeautiful Life is a gripping, potent and blisteringly well-written story offamily, dilemma, and consequence. . . . I read this book with white-knuckledurgency, and I finished it in tears. Helen Schulman is an absolutely brilliantnovelist." —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray...

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This Beautiful Life: A Novel (P.S.)

by Helen Schulman

Published: 2012-02-07

Paperback: 256 pages

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When fifteen-year-old Jake Bergamot receives—and then forwards to a friend—a sexually explicit video that an eighth-grade admirer sent to him, the video goes viral within hours. The scandal that ensues threatens to shatter his family’s sense of security and identity—and, ultimatel...

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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

by Marilyn Johnson

Published: 2010-02-01

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Buried in info? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper and discs, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians! They want to help. They're not selling a thing. And librarians know best how to beat a path through the go...

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This Borrowed Earth: Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World

by Robert Emmet Hernan

Published: 2010-02-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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Over the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are the strikingly poignant accounts of disasters whose names live in infamy: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Love Ca...

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This Boy's Life - A Memoir

Published: 1989

Paperback: 212 pages

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This Boy's Life: A Memoir

by Tobias Wolff

Published: 2000-03

Paperback: 304 pages

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This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move, yet they develo...

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This Bright River

by Patrick Somerville

Published: 2012-06-26

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Lauren Keller had left Wisconsin to become a doctor in Africa, where she excelled in medicine and failed at love. Her broken heart sends her reeling back to her hometown, where she establishes herself as a cashier at the local diner, determined to cut herself off from career, friendship or...

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This Burning Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

by Greg Myre, Jennifer Griffin

Published: 2011-03-29

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A profoundly different way of looking the Israeli-Palestinian conflictReporting from Jerusalem for The New York Times and Fox News respectively, Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin, witnessed a decades-old conflict transformed into a completely new war. The West has learned a lot about asymmetr...

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This Burns My Heart: A Novel

by Samuel Park

Published: 2011-07-12

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Chamara is difficult to translate from Korean to English: To stand it, to bear it, to grit your teeth and not cry out? To hold on, to wait until the worst is over? Such is the burden Samuel Park's audacious, beautiful, and strong heroine, Soo-Ja Choi, faces in This Burns My Heart, an epic ...

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This Cake is for the Party

by Sarah Selecky

Published: 2010

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