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Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited

by Elyse Schein, Paula Bernstein

Published: 2007-10-02

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn’t until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. When Elyse contacted her adoption agency, she was not prepared for the shocking, life-changing news she received: She had an identica...

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The Ides of March

by Thornton Wilder

Published: 1994-12-01

Hardcover: 0 pages

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Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this internationally acclaimed novel.The...

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The Ides of March: A Novel

by Thornton Wilder

Published: 2003-09-16

Paperback: 304 pages

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Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this internationally acclaimed novel. Th...

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The Idiot (Signet Classics)

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Published: 2010-04-06

Mass Market Paperback: 688 pages

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A classic by a Russian master Prince Myshkin, the idiot, is an almost comically innocent Christ figure in a land of sinners, one whose faith in beauty contrasts sharply with that of his society's.

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The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal

by Laurie Notaro

Published: 2009-04-28

Paperback: 240 pages

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Laurie Notaro has an uncanny ability to attract insanity–and leave readers doubled over with laughter. In The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death, she experiences the popular phenomenon of laser hair removal (because at least one of her chins should be stubble-free); bemoans the ...

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The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent and Clumsy Life

by Laurie Notaro

Published: 2002-07-02

Paperback: 225 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“I’ve changed a bit since high school. Back then I said no to using and selling drugs. I washed on a normal basis and still had good credit.” Introducing Laurie Notaro, the leader of the Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club. Every day she fearlessly rises ...

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An Idiot Girl's Christmas: True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List

by Laurie Notaro

Published: 2005-11-01

Hardcover: 160 pages

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IT’S LAURIE NOTARO’S HOLIDAY HANDBOOK. PREPARE TO LAUGH YOUR TINSEL OFF.It’s the most wonderful–and most dreadful–season of the year, when boxes of truffles attack your thighs, drunken holiday revelers stay long past their welcome, and your grandmother has conniptions at the depa...

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Ie a Million Miles in a Thousand Years

by Donald Miller

Paperback: 272 pages

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Full of beautiful, heart-wrenching, and hilarious stories, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years details one mans opportunity to edit his life as if he were a character in a movie.Years after writing a best-selling memoir, Donald Miller went into a funk andspent months sleeping in and avoidi...

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If a Lion Could Talk

by Mildred Walker

Published: 1995-08-01

Paperback: 277 pages

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Harriet Ryegate, the proper daughter of Massachusetts Puritans, is the first white woman to go far into the wilderness beyond the upper Missouri. With her husband, a Baptist minister, she seeks to convert the Blackfoot Indians to Christianity. But it is the Ryegates who are changed by thei...

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If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness

by Stephen Budiansky

Published: 1998-10-13

Hardcover: 256 pages

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How many of us have caught ourselves gazing into the eyes of a pet, wondering what thoughts lie behind those eyes? Or fallen into an argument over which is smarter, the dog or the cat? Scientists have conducted elaborate experiments trying to ascertain whether animals from chimps to pigeo...