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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Revised by the Author

by Edward Albee

Published: 2006-08-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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“Twelve times a week,” answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she’d like to play Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee’s masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and M...

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An African in Greenland (New York Review Books Classics)

by Tete-Michel Kpomassie, James Kirkup, A. Alvarez

Published: 2001-11-09

Paperback: 432 pages

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Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland—and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among...

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Coronation Everest

by Jan Morris

Published: 2003-04-07

Paperback: 176 pages

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'Exquisite, powerful ...I can think of no better way of commemorating British exploration's culminating triumph.' Simon Winchester This classic account offers a breathtakingly intimate evocation of the most famous of all mountaineering exploits - and of perhaps the last great old-fashioned Fleet Street...

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The Way of the World (New York Review Books Classics)

by Nicolas Bouvier

Published: 2009-10-27

Paperback: 336 pages

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In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass. They had a rattletrap Fiat and a little money, but above all they were equipped with the certainty that by hook or by crook the...

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Woman No. 17: A Novel

by Edan Lepucki

Published: 2017-05-09

Hardcover: 320 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki's Woman No. 17 "reads like a Hollywood HIlls film noir." — Seattle Times   High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Left alone with her children, she’s going to need a hand taking car...

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Provocative (White Lies Duet)

by Lisa Renee Jones

Published: 2017-07-11

Paperback: 362 pages

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Book one in the sexy and intense new White Lies duet by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones!There are those moments in life that are provocative in their very existences, that embed in our minds forever, and sometimes our very souls. They change us, mold us, maybe even save ...

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Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

by Christine Montross

Published: 2008-05-27

Paperback: 320 pages

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A "gleaming, humane" (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and a first-year medical studentMedical student Christine Montross felt nervous standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class. Entering a room with stainless-steel tabl...

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A Fine Line (A Sebastian Drake Novel)

by Dan Burns

Published: 2017-05-16

Hardcover: 294 pages

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When a struggling author with a secret government past is hired by a wealthy philanthropist to investigate a cold murder case, he has no choice but to expose the dark and buried secrets of a powerful political family in Chicago.Sebastian Drake is a novelist working out of a dilapidated apa...

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Murder In Matera: A True Story of Passion, Family, and Forgiveness in Southern Italy

by Helene Stapinski

Published: 2017-05-23

Hardcover: 320 pages

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“A murder mystery, a model of investigative reporting, a celebration of the fierce bonds that hold families together through tragedies…Murder in Matera is a gem.” — San Francisco Chronicle "Tantalizing" — NPR “A thrilling detective story… Stapinski pursues the study of her fa...

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The Wildling Sisters

by Eve Chase

Published: 2017-07-25

Hardcover: 336 pages

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"An enthralling story of secrets, sisters, and an unsolved mystery." —Kate MortonAn evocative novel in the vein of Kate Morton and Daphne Du Maurier, in which the thrill of first love clashes with the bonds of sisterhood, and all will be tested by the dark secret at the heart of Appleco...