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Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
Published: 1998-08-17
Paperback: 320 pages
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Once upon a time we knew the origins of things: what piece of earth the potato on our dinner plate came from, which well our water was dipped from, who cobbled our shoes, and whose cow provided the leather. In many parts of the world, that information is still readily available. But in our...
Mid-City Errands
Published: 2014-07-17
Paperback: 396 pages
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Vonny Foster is all grown up! He is in the second grade and about to make his first confession. Which means life is full of mysteries. For instance, what happens to doughnut holes? And also for instance, who was driving the black Pontiac that ran over his friend Jimmy Broom? Was it an accident or a incident?...
The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond
Published: 2004-01-01
Paperback: 336 pages
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At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a seventeen-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Her name was Jackie Mitchell--"organized baseball's first girl pitcher." On September 9, 1965, Sandy Koufax made baseball history...
Evelina (Oxford World's Classics)
Published: 2008-12-15
Paperback: 512 pages
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Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the ...
The Discovery of Slowness
Published: 2005-05-01
Paperback: 325 pages
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The Discovery of Slowness--a huge commercial and critical success across Europe, where it is considered the popular author's master piece--recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847).Through the author's acute reading of history and his marvel...
The Monk Downstairs: A Novel (Plus)
Published: 2010-06-17
Kindle Edition: 320 pages
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Rebecca Martin is a single mother with an apartment to rent and a sense that she has used up her illusions. I had the romantic thing with my first husband, thank you very much, she tells a hapless suitor. I'm thirty-eight years old, and I've got a daughter learning to read and a job I don'...
Songs of the Doomed
Published: 2002-12-01
Paperback: 384 pages
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First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous moments in his thirty years in the Passing Lane -- and no one is safe from his hilarious, rem...
The Dress Lodger (New York Times Notable Books)
Published: 2010-05-01
Paperback: 320 pages
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The Dress Lodger, a cunning historical thriller charged with a distinctly modern voice, is the book that launched Sheri Holman into bestsellerdom. With over 300,000 copies sold and a consistent top ?Reader’s Circle” performer for Ballantine, it was superbly reviewed, chosen as a New Yo...
Better Than My Dreams: Finding What You Long For Where You Might Not Think to Look
Published: 2007-10-16
Paperback: 236 pages
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The story of everywoman's emotional and spiritual journey, helping her release stored up false hopes and preconceived notions by replacing them with the wonderful reality God is weaving into her life. Every morning we face the day with a set of expectations about how things will or should ...
Shanghai Tango
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