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Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life (Book)

Kathleen Norris

ISBN:9781594484384

Kathleen Norrisas masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term "acedia," or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
Kathleen Norris had written several much loved books...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:334

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An American Gospel: On Family, History, and the Kingdom of God (Book)

Erik Reece

ISBN:9781594484452

From the award-winning author of "Lost Mountain," a stirring, inspiring work of memoir, spiritual journey, and historical inquiryaa dazzling chronicle of a personal and national identity reclaimed.
Erik Reeceas grandfather was a Bible-thumping...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:224

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Beijing Doll (Book)

Chun Sue

ISBN:9781594480201

Banned in China for its candid exploration of a young girl's sexual awakening yet widely acclaimed as being "the first novel of 'tough youth' in China" ("Beijing Today")...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:223

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Blonde Roots (Book)

Bernardine Evaristo

ISBN:9781594484346

A provocative novel that upends the history of the transatlantic slave trade, reversing and reexamining notions of savagery and civilization...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (Book)

Maile Meloy

ISBN:9781594484650

One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year from a master of the short story.
One of the most celebrated new writers of the last decade returns with an extraordinary collection of stories demonstrating the emotional power and the clean...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:232

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Changing Places: A Journey with My Parents Into Their Old Age (Book)

Judy Kramer

ISBN:9781573228800

Millions of baby boomers are facing one of life's most poignant challenges-they are becoming parents to their parents. It is a turning point that Mary Pipher illuminated in her New York Times bestseller Another Country-and one that Judy Kramer knows well. Confronted with new emotional and practical challenges when her parents entered a nursing home...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:256

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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (Book)

Chris Greenhalgh

ISBN:9781594484551

Soon to be a major motion picture
Coco Chanel and Composer Igor Stravinsky.
Their love affair inspired their art.
Their art defined an era.
In 1913...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:326

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Creation (Movie Tie-In)

Randal Keynes

ISBN:9781594484742

Soon to be a major motion picture
The moving, personal story of Charles Darwin and his revolutionary views on nature, evolution, and the human condition.
As Darwin's theories continue to shape much of our thinking about the roots of human nature...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:430

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Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution (Book)

Randal Keynes

ISBN:9781573229555

In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes discovered the writing case of Charles Darwin's beloved daughter Annie...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:448

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Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us (Book)

Daniel H Pink

ISBN:9781594484803

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It's wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:260

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Edible Stories (Book)

Mark Kurlansky

ISBN:9781594484889

All-new stories about the food we share, love, and fight over from the national bestselling author of "Cod and Salt."
In these linked stories...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:265

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Empire of the Soul (Book)

Paul William Roberts

ISBN:9781573226356

Paul William Roberts's journeys through India span twenty years, and in this "unusual and literally wondrous tale" (Toronto Globe and Mail), he creates a dazzling mosaic...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:384

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Fall (Book)

Colin McAdam

ISBN:9781594484643

A masterpiece of adolescent perspective, emotion, impulse, and relationships: the riveting story of two male roommates at a co-ed boarding school and what happens when the girlfriend of one of them goes missing during their final year.
From an internationally acclaimed...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:360

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False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World (Book)

Alan Beattie

ISBN:9781594484445

An important book for turbulent times-an accessible and engaging economic history of the world, by a leading economic writer.
Alan Beattie has long been intrigued by the fates of different countries...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:352

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Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner, and Thedodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles (Book)

Michael D'Antonio

ISBN:9781594484414

If ever there was a figure who changed the game of baseball, it was Walter OaMalley. Criticized in New York and beloved in Los Angeles, OaMalley is one of the most controversial owners in the history of American sports...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:385

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God's Mountain (Book)

Erri De Luca

ISBN:9781573229609

This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open.
He lives in Montedidio-God's Mountain-a cluster of alleys in the heart of Naples...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:168

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Grounded: A Journey Around the World Without Leaving the Earth (Book)

Seth Stevenson

ISBN:9781594484421

An eye-opening and fascinating journey from an acclaimed travel writer who circled the globe without ever leaving the ground.
In this age of globalism and high-speed travel...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:274

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If the Spirit Moves You: Life and Love After Death (Book)

Justine Picardie

ISBN:9781573229920

Justine Picardie shares the story of the loss of her sister, of bereavement and a thinking person's investigation into psychic phenomenon....more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:272

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Juliet, Naked (Book)

Nick Hornby

ISBN:9781594484773

In a dreary seaside town in England, Annie loves Duncan -- or thinks she does, because she always has. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:406

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Love and Obstacles (Book)

Aleksandar Hemon

ISBN:9781594484612

A new book of linked stories by the author of the National Book Award finalist "The Lazarus Project."
Aleksandar Hemon earned his reputation- and his MacArthur "genius grant"-for his short stories...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:209

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Memoir: A History (Book)

Ben Yagoda

ISBN:9781594484827

From a critically acclaimed cultural and literary critic, a definitive history and analysis of the memoir.
From Saint Augustine's "Confessions" to Augusten Burroughs's "Running with Scissors...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:304

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Nature of Music (Book)

Maureen McCarthy Draper

ISBN:9781573228985

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Omens of the Millennium (Book)

Harold Bloom

ISBN:9781573226295

In this acclaimed work, Harold Bloom, America's foremost literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic dreams...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:272

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One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk about Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Polyamory, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities (Book)

Rebecca Walker

ISBN:9781594484377

An illuminating, entertaining, and provocative immersion in todayas American family, with essays from ZZ Packer, Dan Savage, Min Jin Lee, asha bandele...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:263

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Reef (Book)

Romesh Gunesekera

ISBN:9781573225335

Triton loved living in Mister Salgado's house. It was the biggest house he had ever seen--filled with floors to sweep and silver to polish and meals to cook and adults to impress and a brilliant master whose voice was poetry. And people from all over the world came to the house-- to sell their wares...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:192

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Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World (Book)

Mary Pipher

ISBN:9781594484407

In this thoughtful and inspiring memoir, the author of the "New York Times" bestsellers "Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each Other," and "Another Country" explores her personal search for understanding...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:258

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Sex & Power (Book)

Susan R Estrich

ISBN:9781573228930

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Format:Paperback  Pages:320

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Slam (Book)

Nick Hornby

ISBN:9781594484711

The #1 "New York Times" bestseller now in paperback.
For 16-year-old Sam, life is about to get extremely complicated. He and his girlfriendamake that ex-girlfrienda Alicia have gotten themselves into a bit of trouble...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:309

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Sometimes Mine (Book)

Martha Moody

ISBN:9781594484681

From the author of the national bestseller "Best Friends" an emotionally affecting story of midlife romance and learning to value the people in your life.
Genie Toledo is a spitfire who too young married the wrong guy...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:336

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The Best Thing I Ever Tasted: The Secret of Food (Book)

Sallie Tisdale

ISBN:9781573228534

An "engaging and delectable" (Chicago Tribune) meditation on the secret of food -- what we choose to eat, when we decide to eat it, and why....more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:311

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The Book of Night Women (Book)

Marlon James

ISBN:9781594484360

"The Book of Night Women" is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:427

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The Flying Carpet of Small Miracles: One Woman's Fight to Save Two Orphans of War (Book)

Hala Jaber

ISBN:9781594484667

The inspiring true story of a prizewinning foreign correspondent longing for a child, two small Iraqi girls in need of a mother, and what love and grief can teach us about family and hope.
Zahra...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:282

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The Forest for the Trees (Revised and Updated): An Editor's Advice to Writers

Betsy Lerner

ISBN:9781594484834

Quickly established as an essential and enduring companion for aspiring writers when it was first published, Lerner's sharp, funny, and insightful guide has been meticulously updated and revised to address the dramatic changes that have reshaped the publishing industry in the decade since. From blank page to first glowing (or gutting) review...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:304

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The Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9 11 (Book)

John Farmer

ISBN:9781594484780

From the senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission, a mesmerizing real-time portrayal of that day, why we weren't told the truth, and why our nation is still at risk.
As one of the primary authors of the 9/11 Commission Report...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:432

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The Informers (Book)

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

ISBN:9781594484674

A virtuosic novel about family, history, memory, and betrayal from the brightest new Latin American literary talent working today.
When Gabriel Santoro's biography is scathingly reviewed by his own father...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:351

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The Ironic Christian's Companion (Book)

Patrick Henry

ISBN:9781573227827

A prominent religious scholar who isn't afraid to shake our assumptions and probe our imaginations, Patrick Henry has written a guide for the "ironic Christian" -- one who strives to integrate truth with faith...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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The Junior Officers Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars (Book)

Patrick Hennessey

ISBN:9781594484797

Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., "The Junior Officers' Reading Club" is a revelatory first-hand account of a young enlistee's profound coming of age. Attempting to stave off the tedium and pressures of army life in the Iraqi desert by losing themselves in the dusty paperbacks on the transit-camp bookshelves...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:310

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The Last Ember (Book)

Daniel Levin

ISBN:9781594484605

An Italian antiquities squad discovers a woman's preserved corpse inside an ancient column. Pages torn from priceless manuscripts litter the floor of an abandoned warehouse. An illegal excavation burrows beneath Jerusalem's Dome of the rome...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:460

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The Little Stranger (Book)

Sarah Waters

ISBN:9781594484469

From the multi-award-winning and bestselling author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith comes an astonishing novel about love, loss, and the sometimes unbearable weight of the past.
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:512

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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (Book)

Allison Hoover Bartlett

ISBN:9781594484810

In the tradition of "The Orchid Thief," a compelling narrative set within the strange and genteel world of rare-book collecting: the true story of an infamous book thief...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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The Prodigal God (Book)

Timothy Keller

ISBN:9781594484025

The "New York Times" bestselling author uncovers the essential message of Jesus, locked inside his most familiar parable.
"Newsweek" called "New York Times" bestselling author Timothy Keller a "C.S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a feature on his first book...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:176

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The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self, and Relationship (Book)

David Whyte

ISBN:9781594484353

A radical, "crystalline" ("Elle") approach to integrating our work, relationships, and inner selves from the bestselling author, poet, and speaker.
The author of "Crossing the Unknown Sea" and "The Heart Aroused" encourages readers to reimagine how they inhabit the worlds of love...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:384

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The Wish Maker (Book)

Ali Sethi

ISBN:9781594484636

A major new international voice debuts with a sweeping story of love, friendship, and family ties that brings to life the turbulent world of modern Pakistan.
The unforgettable story of a fatherless boy growing up in a household of outspoken women...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:450

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The World in Half (Book)

Cristina Henriquez

ISBN:9781594484391

From the prizewinning author of "Come Together, Fall Apart" comes a mesmerizingly beautiful first novel about family, home, loss, and forgiveness that more than fulfills the promise of her earlier work.
Miraflores has never known her father...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:305

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Three Apples Fell from Heaven (Book)

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

ISBN:9781573229159

Set in 1915-1917-the years of the Ottoman Turkish government's brutal campaign that resulted in the deaths of more than a million Armenians-"Three Apples Fell from Heaven" is a breathtaking look at a time marked by unspeakable horror and remarkable courage...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:288

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Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution (Book)

Joel Richard Paul

ISBN:9781594484872

The gripping true story of how three men used espionage, betrayal, and sexual deception to help win the American Revolution.
Unlikely Allies is the story of three remarkable historical figures...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:405

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Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability (Book)

David Owen

ISBN:9781594484841

From the acclaimed New Yorker writer, a thought-provoking, innovative, and challenging new approach to protecting our environment.

Most Americans think of cities as ecological nightmares-wastelands of concrete...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:357

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House of Cards: The True Story of How a 26-Year-Old Fundamentalist Virgin Learned about Life, Love, and Sex by Writing Greeting Cards (Book)

David Ellis Dickerson

ISBN:9781594484865

A hilarious and honest memoir by an ex-greeting card writer, ex- virgin fundamentalist, and current This American Life contributor.

When David Dickerson landed his dream job-at Hallmark writing greeting cards-he discovered his limited life experience as a fundamentalist- raised...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:369

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The Tao of Wu (Book)

RZA

ISBN:9781594484858

The RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, imparts the lessons he's learned on his journey from the Staten Island projects to international superstardom. A devout student of knowledge in every form in which he's found it...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:208

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