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How to Be Lost

by Amanda Eyre Ward

Published: 2004

Hardcover: 294 pages

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From Booklist: Fifteen years ago, on the day the three Winters sisters packed their most precious belongings in their mother's Oldsmobile and planned to run away from home just as soon as school was out, 5-year-old Ellie disappeared. The family never recovered: their abusive father drank himself to death;...

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How to Be Lost: A Novel

by Amanda Eyre Ward

Published: 2015-03-18

Kindle Edition: 322 pages

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Joseph and Isabelle Winters seem to have it all: a grand home in Holt, New York, a trio of radiant daughters, and a sense that they are safe in their affluent corner of America. But when five-year-old Ellie disappears, the fault lines within the family are exposed: Joseph, once a successfu...

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How to Be Single: A Novel

by Liz Tuccillo

Published: 2008-06-10

Hardcover: 368 pages

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How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior

by Laura Kipnis

Published: 2010-08-31

Hardcover: 224 pages

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We all relish a good scandal-the larger the figure (governor, judge) and more shocking the particulars (diapers, cigars)-the better. But why do people feel compelled to act out their tangled psychodramas on the national stage, and why do we so enjoy watching them, hurling our condemnations...

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How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq

by Matthew Alexander, John R. Bruning

Published: 2011-07-19

Paperback: 304 pages

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Finding Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, had long been the U.S. military's top priority?trumping even the search for Osama bin Laden. No brutality was spared in trying to squeeze intelligence from Zarqawi's suspected associates. But these ?force on force? techniques yi...

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How to Breathe Under Water

by Julie Orringer

Published: 2005-04-07

Paperback: 240 pages

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In her dazzling first book Julie Orringer dives into the private world of childhood and immerses us in its fears and longings: the jealous friendships and the bitter sibling battles; the parents that row and the boys that won't dance with you. Then, in a voice that is equally tender and co...

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How to Breathe Underwater

by Julie Orringer

Published: 2005-04-12

Paperback: 226 pages

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A New York Times notable book and winner of The Northern California Book Award for Best Short Fiction, these nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this debut. In "When She is Old and I Am Famous" a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty. In "Note t...

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How to Buy a Love of Reading

by Tanya Egan Gibson

Published: 2009-06-25

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To Carley Wells, words are the enemy-her tutor's innumerable SAT flashcards; her personal trainer's "fifty-seven pounds overweight" assessment; and the endless reading assignments from her English teacher, Mr. Nagel. When Nagel reports to her parents that she has answered "What is your fav...

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How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace

by Frank M. Ahearn, Eileen C. Horan

Published: 2010-09-01

Hardcover: 208 pages

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How to Disappear is the authoritative and comprehensive guide for people who seek to protect their privacy as well as for anyone who's ever entertained the fantasy of disappearing?whether actually dropping out of sight or by eliminating the traceable evidence of their existence....

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How to Ditch Your Fairy

by Justine Larbalestier

Published: 2008-09-16

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Welcome to New Avalon, where everyone has a personal fairy. Though invisible to the naked eye, a personal fairy, like a specialized good luck charm, is vital to success. And in the case of the students at New Avalon Sports High, it might just determine whether you make the team, pass a cla...