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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

by Barbara W. Tuchman

Published: 1996-08-27

Paperback: 608 pages

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The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise Barbara W. Tuchman’s classic histories of the First World War eraDuring the fateful quarter century leading up to World War I, the climax of a century of rapid, unprecedented change, a pri...

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The IX

by Andrew P. Weston

Published: 2015-01-26

Kindle Edition: 451 pages

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Soldiers from varying eras and vastly different backgrounds, including the IX Legion of Rome, are snatched away from Earth at the moment of their passing, and transported to the far side of the galaxy. Thinking they have been granted a reprieve, their relief turns to horror when they disco...

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Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives

by Gretchen Rubin

Published: 2015-03-17

Hardcover: 320 pages

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New York Times Bestseller | Washington Post Bestseller   The author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, The Happiness Project and Happier at Home, tackles the critical question: How do we change?    Gretchen Rubin's answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible ar...

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The Meaning of Names

by Karen Shoemaker

Published: 2014-03-01

Paperback: 232 pages

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Stuart, Nebraska is a long way from the battlefields of Western Europe, but it is not immune to the horrors of the first Great War for Peace. Like all communities, it has lost sons and daughters to the fighting, with many more giving themselves over to the hatred only war can engender. S...

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Villette (Bantam Classic)

by Charlotte Bronte

Published: 1986-10-01

Paperback: 576 pages

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With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Bronte reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and ...

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Hut Builder

by Laurence Fearnley

Published: 2012-12-28

Paperback: 356 pages

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It was more beautiful than anything I had ever seen and I didn't have the words to describe it. It felt it though. I let out an incredible whoop of joy and skipped into the air, laughing and laughing; there was so much joy inside me. For the first time in all my memory, I could not contain myself. As...

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Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life

by Hermione Lee

Published: 2014-11-18

Hardcover: 512 pages

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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW’ S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe acclaimed biographer of Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf gives us an intimate portrait of one of the most quietly brilliant novelists of the twentieth century.Penelope Fitzgerald was a great English writer whose career...

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Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

by John Medina

Published: 2014-04-22

Paperback: 304 pages

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Most of us have no idea what’s really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know?like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best.How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do...

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A Place Called Here

by Cecilia Ahern

Published: 2007

Paperback: 496 pages

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Honeydew: Stories

by Edith Pearlman

Published: 2015-01-06

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A new story collection from the author of Binocular Vision, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the National Book Award. Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her incom...