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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Center Point Platinum Fiction (Large Print))

by Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows

Published: 2008-09-01

Library Binding: 467 pages

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It's January, 1946, and London is emerging from the shadow of World War II. Author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book when she gets a letter from Dawsey Adams from Guernsey, a British island that had been occupied by the Nazis. He finds her addres...

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Riding the White Horse Home: A Western Family Album

by Teresa Jordan

Published: 1994-06

Paperback: 240 pages

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The daughter and granddaughter of Wyoming ranchers, Teresa Jordan gives us a lyrical and superbly evocative book that is at once a family chronicle and a eulogy for the land her people helped shape and in time were forced to leave. Author readings.

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The Rituals of Dinner

by Margaret Visser

Published: 1992-07-01

Paperback: 448 pages

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With an acute eye and an irrepressible wit, Margaret Visser takes a fascinating look at the way we eat our meals. From the ancient Greeks to modern yuppies, from cannibalism and the taking of the Eucharist to formal dinners and picnics, she thoroughly defines the eating ritual. "Read this ...

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Mary Nohl: Inside & Outside

by Barbara Manger

Published: 2009-03-22

Paperback: 134 pages

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Outsider artist, sophisticated naïf, and witch are all labels that have described Mary Nohl (1914–2001), creator of a magical and mysterious site on the shore of Lake Michigan near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Here she constructed huge concrete heads, stone-encrusted creatures, and imposing dr...

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Art as Therapy

by Alain Botton, John Armstrong

Published: 2016-10-24

Paperback: 240 pages

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Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperbackThis passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and th...

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How to Ruin Everything: Essays

by George Watsky

Published: 2016-06-14

Paperback: 240 pages

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A New York Times Bestseller"Funny, subversive, and able to excavate such brutally honest sentences that you find yourself nodding your head in wonder and recognition." —Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer and lyricist of In the Heights and Hamilton: An American MusicalAre you a sensible, uni...

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Almost Home

by Valerie Fraser Luesse

Published: 2019-03-05

Paperback: 336 pages

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With America's entrance into the Second World War, the town of Blackberry Springs, Alabama, has exploded virtually overnight. Workers from all over are coming south for jobs in Uncle Sam's munitions plants--and they're bringing their pasts with them, right into Dolly Chandler's grand but f...

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Cruel Candy (Cozy Corgi Mysteries)

by Mildred Abbott

Published: 2017-12-05

Paperback: 280 pages

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Estes Park, Colorado: picturesque mountains, charming shops, delightful bakeries, a cozy bookstore… and murder. Winifred Page and her corgi, Watson, move to Estes Park to hit the Reset button on life. Fred is about to open her dream bookshop, and the only challenges she anticipates are adjusting to...

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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

by David Wallace-Wells

Published: 2019-02-19

Hardcover: 320 pages

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonIt is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is do...

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Hazards of Time Travel

by Joyce Carol Oates

Published: 2018

Hardcover: 0 pages

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