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A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope

by Tom Brokaw

Published: 2015-05-12

Hardcover: 240 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Tom Brokaw, the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, comes a powerful memoir of a year of dramatic change—a year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life.  Tom Brokaw has led a fortunate life, with a strong marriage an...

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The Theft of Memory: Losing My Father, One Day at a Time

by Jonathan Kozol

Published: 2015-06-02

Hardcover: 320 pages

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National Book Award winner Jonathan Kozol is best known for his fifty years of work among our nation’s poorest and most vulnerable children. Now, in the most personal book of his career, he tells the story of his father’s life and work as a nationally noted specialist in disorders of t...

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Death by Chocolate (Volume 1)

by Sally C Berneathy

Published: 2013-08-01

Paperback: 322 pages

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Lindsay Powell's only secret is the recipe for her chocolate chip cookies, but she is surrounded by neighbors with deadly secrets. Suddenly Lindsay finds herself battling poisoned chocolate, a dead man who doesn't seem very dead and a psycho stalker. Her best friend and co-worker, Paula, dyes her blond...

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The Conditions of Love

by Dale M. Kushner

Published: 2014-05-06

Paperback: 384 pages

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Dale M. Kushner's novel The Conditions of Love traces the journey of a girl from childhood to adulthood as she reckons with her parents' abandonment, her need to break from society's limitations, and her overwhelming desire for spiritual and erotic love. In 1953, ten-year-old Eunice lives ...

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All He Saw Was The Girl

by Peter Leonard

Published: 2012-05-15

Paperback: 290 pages

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Rome:McCabe and Chip, two American exchange students, are about to become embroiled with a violent street gang, a beautiful Italian girl, and a flawed kidnapping plan.Detroit:Sharon Vanelli’s affair with Joey Palermo, a Mafia enforcer, is about to be discovered by her husband, Ray, a sec...

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The Call of the Wild (Global Classics)

by Jack London

Published: 2014-11-29

Paperback: 66 pages

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The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in the Santa Clara valley of...

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The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop

by Steve Osborne

Published: 2015-04-21

Hardcover: 272 pages

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"How ya doin?" With these four syllables, delivered in an unmistakably authentic New York accent, Steve Osborne has riveted thousands of people through the legendary storytelling outfit The Moth (and over a million times on their website) with his hilarious, profane, and touching tales fro...

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2024

by Ted Rall

Published: 2003-01

Paperback: 96 pages

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Move forward two decades. See the world as the giant media moguls and software companies have become our new big brothers. They want the best for us. They know what's best for us. And what's best for us we have chosen ourselves to be consumer heaven with no questions asked! A terrifying future where...

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The Girls from Corona del Mar (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Rufi Thorpe

Published: 2015-06-09

Paperback: 256 pages

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Best friends Mia and Lorrie Ann couldn’t be more different; where Mia is reckless and proudly hard-hearted, Lorrie Ann is kind, serenely beautiful, and seemingly immune to the kind of teenage mistakes that Mia can’t help but make.  But within a few years, fortunes change. Suddenly, Mi...

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Thrown

by Kerry Howley

Published: 2014-10-14

Paperback: 288 pages

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In this darkly funny work of literary nonfiction, a bookish young woman insinuates herself into the lives of two cage fighters—one a young prodigy, the other an aging journeyman. Acclaimed essayist Kerry Howley follows these men for three years through the bloody world of mixed martial a...