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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

by Chris Hedges

Published: 2010-10-05

Paperback: 240 pages

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We now live in two Americas. One?now the minority?functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other?the majority?is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority?which cro...

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Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas

by Mark Kurlansky

Published: 2018-05-08

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's bre...

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Sandcastle Kings: Meeting Jesus in a Spiritually Bankrupt World

by Rich Wilkerson Jr

Published: 2015-11-10

Paperback: 240 pages

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The world seems to have figured out the formula for manufacturing material success, but when it comes to finding true, lasting happiness, we are as lost as ever. We yearn for more, or less, or something that’s just different from what we have right now.Deep down, we know there must be sa...

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Dean and Me: (A Love Story)

by Jerry Lewis, James Kaplan

Published: 2006-10-10

Paperback: 352 pages

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In a memoir by turns moving, tragic, and hilarious, Jerry Lewis recounts with crystal clarity every step of his fifty-year friendship with Dean Martin. They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N...

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When the Men Were Gone: A Novel

by Marjorie Herrera Lewis

Published: 2018-10-02

Paperback: 240 pages

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“…Sublimely ties together the drama of high school football, gender politics, and the impact of war on a small town in Texas.” – Sports Illustrated A 2019 One of the Best Books So Far--Newsweek.comA cross between Friday Night Lights and The Atomic City Girls, When The Men Wer...

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Come Hell or Highball: A Mystery (Discreet Retrieval Agency Mysteries)

by Maia Chance

Published: 2016-09-20

Paperback: 320 pages

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31-year-old society matron Lola Woodby has survived her loveless marriage with an unholy mixture of highballs, detective novels, and chocolate layer cake, until her husband dies suddenly, leaving her his fortune...or so Lola thought. As it turns out, all she inherits from Alfie is a big pi...

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Before Everything: A Novel

by Victoria Redel

Published: 2018-07-03

Paperback: 304 pages

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A group of lifetime friends gather together to confront life, love, and now mortality“Everything you want a novel about life, death, and friendship to be—smart, moving, sweeping, poetic, stinging, just beautiful. I loved these women (and their men) and this elegy to their long-reaching...

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Crewe Train (Virago Modern Classics)

by Rose Macaulay

Published: 2018-04-10

Paperback: 304 pages

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Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive life and thrown into the social whirl of London by her sophisticated relatives. Denham, however, provides a candid response to the niceties of 'civilised' behav...

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The Mother-in-Law Cure (Originally published as Only in Naples): Learning to Live and Eat in an Italian Family

by Katherine Wilson

Published: 2017-05-02

Paperback: 320 pages

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Full of lighthearted humor, sumptuous food, the wisdom of an Italian mother-in-law, and all the atmosphere of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, this warm and witty memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abroad. Thanks to a surprising romance—and a spirited wo...

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If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging

by Sharon Blackie

Published: 2017-04-18

Paperback: 400 pages

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2016 Nautilus Award Silver Winner in the Women category"I love this book. Truly, it's mind-blowing in the most profound and exhilarating sense." —Manda Scott, author of Boudica and Into the FireThis is the second edition of a uniquely empowering, international word-of-mouth bestseller ab...