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My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew

by Abigail Pogrebin

Published: 2017-03-14

Hardcover: 336 pages

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The much-dissected Pew Research Center study of 2013, “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,” revealed that most U.S. Jews locate their Jewishness in their ancestry and culture?not in religion. Abigail Pogrebin wondered if perhaps that’s because we haven’t all looked at religion closely ...

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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

by Jennifer Wright

Published: 2017-02-07

Hardcover: 336 pages

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A witty, irreverent tour of history's worst plagues?from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio?and a celebration of the heroes who fought themIn 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn’t stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon...

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Lucky Jim (New York Review Books Classics)

by Kingsley Amis

Published: 2012-10-02

Paperback: 296 pages

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A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature.Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandali...

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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do About It

by Larry Olmsted

Published: 2016-07-12

Hardcover: 336 pages

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“Olmsted makes you insanely hungry and steaming mad--a must-read for anyone who cares deeply about the safety of our food and the welfare of our planet.” —Steven Raichlen, author of the Barbecue! Bible series“The world is full of delicious, lovingly crafted foods that embody the te...

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The Confidence Effect: Every Woman's Guide to the Attitude That Attracts Success (UK Professional Business Management / Business)

by Grace Killelea

Published: 2016-01-06

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Women are told to step up and lean in...but how? Every day, talented, hardworking women are passed over for promotions. While it's easy to blame a corporate culture that favors men, seasoned executive Grace Killelea identifies another culprit: a surprising disparity in confidence. Men ar...

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Journal of the Dead: A Story of Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desert

by Jason Kersten

Published: 2004-07-27

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I killed and buried my best friend today ...When authorities found Raffi Kodikian -- barely alive -- four days after he and his friend David Coughlin became lost in Rattlesnake Canyon, they made a grim and shocking discovery. Kodikian freely admitted that he had stabbed Coughlin twice in t...

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Garden Spells (Bantam Discovery)

by Sarah Addison Allen

Published: 2008-04-29

Paperback: 320 pages

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The magical New York Times bestseller. In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that e...

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No Ordinary Hook Up: The Courtship of Vashti Turley and Carl Murphy 1915-1916

by Dr. Frances Murphy Draper

Published: 2016-08-27

Paperback: 124 pages

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Today, we live in a hook-up culture – a culture that promotes casual sex. One hundred years ago, a hook-up was not about casual sex. It was the precursor to a lifetime commitment. In 1911, my grandparents, Carl Murphy and Lula Vashti Turley “hooked up” at Howard University in Washington, D.C. –...

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I'm Traveling Alone: A Novel

by Samuel Bjork

Published: 2017-03-14

Paperback: 400 pages

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International bestseller Samuel Bjork makes his US debut, a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a vengeful killer--and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crimeA six-year-old girl is found in the countryside, hanging lifeless from a tree and...

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The Case of the Green-Dressed Ghost (Dr Ribero's Agency of the Supernatural)

by Lucy Banks

Published: 2017-03-07

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"Banks’s debut marks the start of a promising urban fantasy series, something like Ghostbusters with a British accent."--Publishers Weekly Kester Lanner didn’t know what to expect when he followed his mother’s dying request to contact the mysterious Dr. Ribero, but he wasn’t exp...