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The Book of Dead Birds

by Gayle Brandeis

Published: 2004

Paperback: 256 pages

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Ava Sing Lo has been accidentally killing her mother's birds since she was a little girl. Now in her twenties, Ava leaves her native San Diego for the Salton Sea, where she volunteers to help environmental activists save thousands of birds poisoned by agricultural runoff. Helen, her mothe...

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The Book of Dead Philosophers (Vintage)

by Simon Critchley

Published: 2009-02-10

Paperback: 304 pages

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?To philosophize is to learn how to die.? ?Cicero; assassinated by order of Mark Antony?One who no longer is cannot suffer.? ?Lucretius; suicide, allegedly driven mad by a love potion?Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.? ?Hobbes; died in bed, age 91In this collection of brie...

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The Book Of Disquiet

by Fernando Pessoa

Published: 2004-02-02

Paperback: 276 pages

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The eternal mystique of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) stems largely from his practice of writing under "heteronyms." More than just nom de plumes, Pessoa's heteronyms came with distinct biographies, careers, life spans, even horoscopes. In The Book of Disquiet, Pessoa came ...

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The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (New York Review Books Classics)

by G.B. Edwards

Published: 2007-07-10

Paperback: 400 pages

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Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England an...

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The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine

by Pamela Kaufman

Published: 2003-03-25

Paperback: 544 pages

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One of history’s greatest women, celebrated by her contemporaries, descendants, and biographers, comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by bestselling author Pamela Kaufman.In 1137, fifteen-year-old Eleanor became Duchess of Aquitaine, a wealthy and powerful province in the South of...

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The Book of Fate

by Brad Meltzer

Published: 2011-10-01

Mass Market Paperback: 608 pages

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Brad Meltzer's #1 New York Times bestseller featuring a two-hundred-year-old code devised by Thomas Jefferson and a present-day conspiracy at the highest level of power ."Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of us knew it was coming."So says Wes Holloway, a young presidentia...

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The Book of Fires: A Novel

by Jane Borodale

Published: 2010-01-21

Hardcover: 360 pages

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Reminiscent of Year of Wonders, a captivating debut novel of fireworks, fortune, and a young woman's redemption It is 1752 and seventeen-year-old Agnes Trussel arrives in London pregnant with an unwanted child. Lost and frightened, she finds herself at the home of Mr. J. Blacklock, a br...

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The Book of Flying

by Keith Miller

Published: 2005-01-04

Paperback: 288 pages

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Our hero, Pico, is a poet and librarian, and forbidden to pursue the girl of his dreams, for she has wings and Pico does not. When he discovers an ancient letter in his library telling of the mythical Morning Town where the flightless may gain their wings, he sets off on a quest. It's a magical journey...

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The Book of Fred: A Novel

by Abby Bardi

Published: 2002-09-24

Paperback: 320 pages

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Filled with soulful humor and quiet pathos, Abby Bardi's boldly drawn first novel marks the debut of a joyfully talented chronicler of the quest for connection in contemporary life. Mary Fred Anderson, raised in an isolated fundamentalist sect whose primary obsessions seem to involve an ...

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The Book of Hours

by Davis Bunn

Published: 2008-11-04

Paperback: 322 pages

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Brian thought he had no future. Now he has the chance to start over...if he can solve the mysteries of the past found inside Castle Keep.After his wife's death, Brian Blackstone's days and hours had become a meaningless blur. He finally wills himself to go to the English village of Knigh...