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The Household Guide to Dying

by Debra Adelaide

Published: 2009-01-01

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Househusband

by Ad Hudler

Published: 2002-04-16

Hardcover: 304 pages

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Lincoln Menner is finding out just how hard it is to be a woman. When his wife Jo was offered her dream job, Linc supported her wholeheartedly, leaving his thriving landscape business in Los Angeles and moving to Rochester, New York. This was a chance to escape the cloying needs and atroci...

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The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel

by Yoko Ogawa

Published: 2009-02-03

Paperback: 192 pages

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He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem?ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper?with a ten-year-old son?who is hired to care for the Professor. And every morning, as the Professor an...

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* * * Dramatic,
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Housekeeping: A Novel

by Marilynne Robinson

Published: 2004-11-01

Paperback: 219 pages

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A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the ...

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How Can I Help? Stories and Reflection on Service

by Ram Dass, Paul Gorman

Published: 1985-03-12

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Not a day goes by without our being called upon to help one another--at home, at work, on the street, on the phone. . . . We do what we can. Yet so much comes up to complicate this natural response: "Will I have what it takes?" "How much is enough?" "How can I deal with suffering?" "And...

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How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move?: Inside My Autistic Mind

by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

Published: 2011-04-01

Paperback: 240 pages

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An astounding new work by the author of The Mind Tree that offers a rare insight into the autistic mind and how it thinks, sees, and reacts to the world. When he was three years old, Tito was diagnosed as severely autistic, but his remarkable mother, Soma, determined that he would overcome...

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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

by Paul Tough

Published: 2013-07-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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“Drop the flashcards—grit, character, and curiosity matter even more than cognitive skills. A persuasive wake-up call.”—People Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to th...

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How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly

by Connie May Fowler

Published: 2010-04-02

Hardcover: 288 pages

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How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly is the transcendent story of a young woman who, in a twenty-four hour period, journeys through startling moments of self-discovery that lead her to a courageous and life-altering decision.

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How Did You Get This Number

by Sloane Crosley

Published: 2010-06-15

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A brand-new book of hilarious and insightful personal essays by the iconic, irresistible Sloane Crosley. From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widesp...

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How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

by Andy Andrews

Published: 2012-01-03

Hardcover: 96 pages

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How Do You Kill  11 Million People? Or, to be precise, 11,283,000 people. Andy Andrews believes that good answers come only from asking the right questions. Through the powerful, provocative question, "How do you kill eleven million people?"-the number of people killed by the Nazi Germ...