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Life & Times of Michael K
Published: 2003
Paperback: 192 pages
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In a south Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. This life affirming...
Life After Death
Published: 2013-05-07
Paperback: 416 pages
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The New York Times bestselling memoir by Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three, who was falsely convicted of three murders and spent nearly eighteen years on Death Row.In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.—who have come to be known as the West Memp...
Life Among Giants
Published: 2012-11-13
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At seventeen, David ?Lizard? Hochmeyer is nearly seven feet tall, a star quarterback, and Princeton-bound. His future seems all but assured until his parents are mysteriously murdered, leaving Lizard and his older sister, Kate, adrift and alone. In a mansion across the pond from their Conn...
Life Among the Savages
Published: 1997-10-01
Paperback: 256 pages
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One of America's most celebrated writers takes you home to a family and a small town so funny and unpredictable, you'd wish it were your own. "As warm as it is hilarious and believable . . . Never has the state of domestic chaos been so perfectly illuminated."--The New York Times Book Revi...
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Puffin Classics)
Published: 1995-06-01
Paperback: 288 pages
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Life and Death in Shanghai
Published: 2010-12-14
Paperback: 560 pages
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This is a first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of being a British spy...
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
Published: 2010-12-06
Hardcover: 288 pages
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In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog.�His name was Mafia Honey, or�Maf for short.�He had an instinct for celebrity.�For politics.�For psychoanalysis. For literature. For interior decoration.�For Liver Treat with a side order of National Biscuits. � Born in the ho...
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
Published: 2006-10-17
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BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author.From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the p...
Life As I Blow It: Tales of Love, Life & Sex . . . Not Necessarily in That Order
Published: 2012-02-07
Paperback: 256 pages
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In this wickedly funny and irreverent memoir, Chelsea Lately writer and comedian Sarah Colonna opens up about love, life, and pursuing her dreams . . . and then screwing it all up. Sarah believes we all struggle to grow up. Sometimes we want to have fun, not take things too seriously, ...
Life as I Know It: A Novel
Published: 2010-02-09
Paperback: 368 pages
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What if you had the chance to live someone else's life? Full of heart and soul, here is a captivating novel about the choices we make for family and love?and how sometimes a total stranger is the person we really need to be.�Jessica Taylor is walking her dog in the rain when she meets the ...
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