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What Am I Doing Here?

by Bruce Chatwin

Published: 1990-08-01

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In this text, Bruce Chatwin writes of his father, of his friend Howard Hodgkin, and of his talks with Andre Malraux and Nadezhda Mandelstram. He also follows unholy grails on his travels, such as the rumour of a "wolf-boy" in India, or the idea of looking for a Yeti.

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Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers

Published: 2012-11-01

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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Tea Obreht and DBC Pierre.Exhilaratingly varied in place, pl...

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace - One School at a Time

by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin

Published: 2007-01-30

Paperback: 349 pages

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The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, ...

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Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life

by Elizabeth Long

Published: 2003-08-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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Book clubs are everywhere these days. And women talk about the clubs they belong to with surprising emotion. But why are the clubs so important to them? And what do the women discuss when they meet? To answer questions like these, Elizabeth Long spent years observing and participating in w...

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The Dark Flood Rises: A Novel

by Margaret Drabble

Published: 2017-02-14

Hardcover: 336 pages

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From the great British novelist Dame Margaret Drabble comes a vital and audacious tale about the many ways in which we confront aging and living in a time of geopolitical rupture.Francesca Stubbs has an extremely full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself...

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The Veins of the Ocean: A Novel

by Patricia Engel

Published: 2016-05-03

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?Engel has an eye for detail. She knows how to drown the reader in a sense of enchantment... She writes exquisite moments.”?Roxane Gay, The NationReina Castillo is the alluring young woman whose beloved brother is serving a death sentence for a crime that shocked the community, throwing ...

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South: The ENDURANCE Expedition

by Ernest Shackleton

Published: 1999-04-01

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In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets out to become the first to traverse the Antarctic continent. Their initial optimism is short-lived, however, as the ice field slowly thickens, encasing the ship Endurance in a deat...

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Enchanted Islands

by Allison Amend

Published: 2017-04-18

Paperback: 320 pages

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Born to immigrant parents in Minnesota just before the turn of the century, Frances Frankowski grew up coveting the life of her best friend, Rosalie Mendel. And yet, decades later, when the women reconnect in San Francisco, their lives have diverged. Rosalie is a housewife and mother, whil...

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Dear Fang, with Love: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Rufi Thorpe

Published: 2017-04-18

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Lucas and Katya were seniors when they made the impetuous decision to have a baby. Seventeen years later, Lucas is now only a weekend dad, newly involved in his daughter Vera's life after a decade of absence. But when Vera suffers a terrifying psychotic break at a high school party, Lucas ...

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Why We Came to the City: A Novel

by Kristopher Jansma

Published: 2016-02-16

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“Stunning . . . A beautiful, sprawling, and generous book. Jansma is a brilliantly talented writer, but he also has a unique insight into what friends mean to one another, and what it means to be part of a city in which you never quite belong, but can’t quite bring yourself to leave. I...