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Mark Twain - Roughing It

by Mark Twain

Published: 2016-12-14

Paperback: 166 pages

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"Roughing It" is another one of Mark Twain's chronicles of his wandering years, this one being the prequel to "Innocents Abroad." His adventures take place in the Wild West, Salt Lake City and even in Hawaii - among other places. He even enlists as a Confederate cavalryman for some time. The book is...

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The Word Is Murder: A Novel

by Anthony Horowitz

Published: 2018-06-05

Hardcover: 400 pages

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SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Ho...

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Guernica

by Dave Boling

Published: 2009

Paperback: 0 pages

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"Boling threads his way through the stories of his many characters with humor, compassion and rich details of Basque tradition…Moving."?Washington Post Book World In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself on the wrong side of the Spanish Nationalists, so he flees to Guernica, the most ancien...

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Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)

by Paulo Coelho

Published: 2005-03-29

Paperback: 273 pages

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Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer....

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Emergency Contact

by Mary H. K. Choi

Published: 2018-03-27

Hardcover: 400 pages

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“Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book.” —Rainbow RowellFrom debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory—perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park ...

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Awakening Your Ikigai: How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day

by Ken Mogi

Published: 2018-01-02

Hardcover: 224 pages

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“Awakening Your Ikigai is really quite a delightful look at sometimes mystifying Japanese traditions.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIntroducing IKIGAI: find your passions and live with joyIkigai is a Japanese phenomenon commonly understood as “your reason to get up in the morning....

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Edokko: Growing up a Stateless Foreigner in Wartime Japan (Holocaust/WWII memoirs by seasidepress)

by Isaac Shapiro

Published: 2017-11-06

Paperback: 202 pages

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In 1926, professional musicians Constantine Shapiro, born in Moscow, 1896 and Lydia Chernetsky (Odessa, 1905) met and married in Berlin, Germany after their respective families had suffered continuous persecution in war-torn Russia, or the Soviet Union, as it was known after 1922. With Hitler’s national...

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* * * * * Persuasive,
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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

by Michael Pollan

Published: 2018-05-15

Hardcover: 480 pages

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A New York Times Notable Book The #1 New York Times bestseller.A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to...

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Every Day I'm Hustling

by Vivica A. Fox

Published: 2018-04-03

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Vivica A. Fox is a dynamo who has created a lasting career on her own, through sheer, roll-up-your-sleeves DIY hustle. Every Day I'm Hustling is a personal book with a message Fox passionately believes in: that you make your own luck, that you never ever wake up in the morning thinking som...

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Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

by Michael Bennett, Dave Zirin

Published: 2018-04-03

Hardcover: 268 pages

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Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, a grassroots philanthropist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the most scathingly humorous athletes on the planet, and he wants to make you uncomfortable. Benne...