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On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes

by Alexandra Horowitz

Published: 2013-01-08

Hardcover: 320 pages

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From the author of the giant #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world. Alexandra Horowitz’s brilliant On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to see the spectacle of...

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LaBrava

by Elmore Leonard

Published: 2009-04-14

Paperback: 432 pages

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Joe LaBrava first fell in love with femme fatale movie queen Jean Shaw in a darkened theater when he was twelve. Now he's finally meeting his dream woman in the flesh, albeit in a rundown Miami crisis center. Cleaned up and sober, though, she still makes LaBrava's heart race. And now that...

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Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska

by Corey Ford

Published: 2003-06-01

Paperback: 206 pages

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Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. In...

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The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour

by Andrei Cherny

Published: 2009-06-02

Paperback: 656 pages

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The Candy Bombers is the true tale of the ill- assorted group of castoffs and second-stringers who saved millions of desperate people from a dire threat. By feeding and supplying West Berlin by air for nearly a year, these brave men won the hearts of America's defeated enemies, and inspire...

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Tales of the City: A Novel (P.S.)

by Armistead Maupin

Published: 2007-05-29

Paperback: 400 pages

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For almost four decades Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of nine novels about the denizens of the my...

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Summer of Promise (Westward Winds, Book 1)

by Amanda Cabot

Published: 2012-01-01

Paperback: 416 pages

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Though she had planned to spend the summer in Vermont with her sweetheart, Abigail Harding cannot dismiss her concerns over her older sister. Charlotte's letters have been uncharacteristically melancholy, and her claims that nothing is wrong ring false, so Abigail heads West to Wyoming. Th...

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The Fault in Our Stars: by John Green -- Sidekick

by Expert Book Reviews

Published: 2013-11-24

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Expert Book Reviews presents a comprehensive review, analysis and plot summary of John Green's novel The Fault in Our Stars. Green artfully builds the relationship between 16-year-old Hazel, whose cancer leaves her permanently tethered to an oxygen cart, and Augustus, a charismatic boy ...

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The Plum Tree

by Ellen Marie Wiseman

Published: 2012-12-24

Paperback: 400 pages

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"The meticulous hand-crafted detail and emotional intensity of THE PLUM TREE immersed me in Germany during its darkest hours and the ordeals its citizens had to face. A must-read for WW2 fiction aficionados--and any reader who loves a transporting story."--Jenna Blum, NYT bestselling auth...

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Awkward Bitch: My Life with MS

by Marlo Donato Parmelee

Published: 2009-07-07

Paperback: 316 pages

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Immokalee's Fields of Hope

by Carlene Thissen

Published: 2004-05-27

Paperback: 296 pages

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Immokalee's Fields of Hope is a story of Mexican, Haitian, and Guatemalan immigrants told by a businesswoman who regained her soul through volunteering with children. With compassion and understanding, Carlene Thissen shares the personal stories the immigrants told her, framed with the political and...