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The Book Thief: The True Crimes of Daniel Spiegelman

by Travis McDade

Published: 2006-10-30

Hardcover: 181 pages

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In the spring of 1994, Daniel Spiegelman shinnied up an abandoned book lift in Columbia University's Butler Library, dismantled a wall, stole books, reassembled the wall, and snuck back down the shaft. Over a three-month period he did this more than a dozen times. He eventually escaped to ...

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The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

by Alan Watts

Published: 1989-08-28

Paperback: 163 pages

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A witty attack on the illusion that the self is a separate ego that confronts a universe of alien physical objects.

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Bookclub in a Box Discusses People of the Book, the novel by Geraldine Brooks

by Marilyn Herbert

Published: 2008-11-03

Perfect Paperback: 82 pages

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If the Sarajevo Haggadah could speak, what extraordinary stories it would tell. It has traveled through countries and centuries, where it has been used, threatened and rescued by people of different cultures and religions. It now rests in the National Museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Geraldine ...

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Bookclub in a Box Discusses the Novel A Complicated Kindness, by Miriam Toews (Bookclub in a Box)

by Miriam Toews

Published: 2006-08-30

Paperback: 83 pages

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Discusses the novel, "A Complicated Kindness".

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Bookclub in a Box Discusses the Novel Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood

by Marilyn Herbert

Published: 2008-01-17

Perfect Paperback: 83 pages

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Oryx and Crake is a work of speculative fiction by the international literary star, Margaret Atwood. Raised in a science-oriented household, Atwood is no stranger to the curiosities of the natural world and to topics concerning the essence of the universe. It is her extensive knowledge of life, as it...

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* * * * Insightful,
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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses Abraham Verghese's novel, Cutting for Stone: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders (Book Club in a Box: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders)

by Marilyn Herbert, Carol Verburg

Published: 2011-02-03

Kindle Edition: 0 pages

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Cutting For Stone is very simply one of the best books ever written and read. The narrative begins in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, when twin boys, Shiva and Marion, are born to a nun (who dies) and a surgeon (who runs away). The babies, conjoined at the head, are successfully separated immediate...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses Cutting For Stone, the novel by Abraham Verghese

by Marilyn Herbert, Carol Verburg

Published: 2010-12-01

Perfect Paperback: 79 pages

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Bookclub-in-a-box Discusses Life of Pi, the novel by Yann Martel (Bookclub in a Box Discusses)

by Yann Martel

Published: 2006-09-23

Paperback: 79 pages

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The story of a boy, a boat, and a tiger promises an adventure which some may find hard to believe. However, with the Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion companion to Yann Martel's novel, Life of Pi, readers begin to consider how to believe the unbelievable. While Yann Martel takes readers on a vo...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses Middlesex, the Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (Bookclub in a Box Discusses)

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Published: 2005-01-01

Paperback: 89 pages

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Transformation, identity, fate, destiny, crime, and punishment are some of the fascinating themes that are unraveled for readers in the Bookclub-in-a-Box discussion guide for Jeffrey Eugenides' Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Middlesex. The guide looks at the central character Callie, a herm...

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Bookclub-in-a-Box Discusses Never Let Me Go, the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

by Marilyn Herbert

Published: 2008-05-07

Perfect Paperback: 80 pages

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In his haunting and important novel, Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro introduces cloned children who grow up with a single purpose: to donate their organs for the benefit of others. The narrator, Kathy H., takes us on detailed and analytical journey starting in her early days at the Hailsh...