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One on One. Craig Brown

by Craig Brown

Published: 2012-07-01

Paperback: 400 pages

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101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, told by Britain's funniest writer. Life is made up of humans meeting one another. They speak, or don't speak. They get on, or fall out. They laugh,...

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Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California

by Frances Dinkelspiel

Published: 2010-01-05

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Isaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 with very little money in his pocket and his brother Herman by his side. By the time he died, he had effectively transformed Los Angeles into the modern metropolis we see today. In Frances Dinkelspiel's groundbreaking hist...

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Two Years Before the Mast

by Richard Henry Dana

Published: 2015-05-27

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Born into a comfortable and affluent New England family, Richard Henry Dana (who once studied under the great Ralph Waldo Emerson) disconcertingly took to the high seas in 1834 as a common sailor, an experience that would color his classic memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Despite his failing vision...

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The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter

by Susan Pinker

Published: 2014-08-26

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In her surprising, entertaining, and persuasive new book, award-winning author and psychologist Susan Pinker shows how face-to-face contact is crucial for learning, happiness, resilience, and longevity.   From birth to death, human beings are hardwired to connect to other human beings. Fa...

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From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories

by Michael Ondaatje

Published: 1995

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The Pie Sisters

by Leigh Brown, Victoria Corliss

Published: 2015-02-16

Paperback: 252 pages

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Three sisters, seven days, one lake. For the Lane sisters, Shelby, Yeardley, and Lily, returning to Aunt Nola’s cottage on Canadaigua Lake for a birthday celebration is like going home. Now adults, it has been years since their last visit. Eager to escape the realities of their day-to-day lives,...

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I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This: A Memoir

by Nadja Spiegelman

Published: 2016-08-02

Hardcover: 384 pages

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A Travel and Leisure, New York Magazine/The Cut, and Real Simple Best Book of Summer A memoir of mothers and daughters—and mothers as daughters—traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again.  For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy...

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Four of a Kind: A women's historical fiction

by Vanessa Russell

Published: 2014-07-20

Paperback: 496 pages

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This multi-award winning saga tells about four generations of women who meet at their dining room table to write about their year of awakening. That's their assumed agreement anyway. Instead each comes with her own isolated agenda: to either tell off or tell all. Set in 1910, 1920, 1943 and 1964, in...

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Triptych: A Novel

by Karin Slaughter

Published: 2016-07-26

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From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries, too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thre...

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Murder at the House of Rooster Happiness (Ethical Chiang Mai Detective Agency)

by David Casarett

Published: 2016-09-13

Paperback: 368 pages

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Meet Ladarat Patalung - the first and only nurse detective in Thailand. Two nights ago, a young woman brought her husband into the emergency room of the Sriphat Hospital in Thailand, where he passed away. A guard thinks she remembers her coming in before, but with a different husband - one...