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Christmas: A Biography

by Judith Flanders

Published: 2017-10-17

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author explores the Christmas holiday, from the original festival through present day traditions.Christmas has always been a magical time. Or has it? Thirty years after the first recorded Christmas, the Pope was already warning that too man...

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* * * * Optimistic,
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One Good Mama Bone: A Novel (Story River Books)

by Bren McClain

Published: 2017-02-14

Hardcover: 280 pages

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Set in early 1950s rural South Carolina, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer’s quest to find her “mama bone,” after she is left to care for a boy who is not her own but instead is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend and neighbor, a woman she calls...

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* * * * * Insightful,
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Revised by the Author

by Edward Albee

Published: 2006-08-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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“Twelve times a week,” answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she’d like to play Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the same way, audiences and critics alike could not get enough of Edward Albee’s masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and M...

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An African in Greenland (New York Review Books Classics)

by Tete-Michel Kpomassie, James Kirkup, A. Alvarez

Published: 2001-11-09

Paperback: 432 pages

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Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland—and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among...

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Coronation Everest

by Jan Morris

Published: 2003-04-07

Paperback: 176 pages

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'Exquisite, powerful ...I can think of no better way of commemorating British exploration's culminating triumph.' Simon Winchester This classic account offers a breathtakingly intimate evocation of the most famous of all mountaineering exploits - and of perhaps the last great old-fashioned Fleet Street...

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The Way of the World (New York Review Books Classics)

by Nicolas Bouvier

Published: 2009-10-27

Paperback: 336 pages

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In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass. They had a rattletrap Fiat and a little money, but above all they were equipped with the certainty that by hook or by crook the...

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Woman No. 17: A Novel

by Edan Lepucki

Published: 2017-05-09

Hardcover: 320 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki's Woman No. 17 "reads like a Hollywood HIlls film noir." — Seattle Times   High in the Hollywood Hills, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Left alone with her children, she’s going to need a hand taking car...

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Provocative (White Lies Duet)

by Lisa Renee Jones

Published: 2017-07-11

Paperback: 362 pages

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Book one in the sexy and intense new White Lies duet by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones!There are those moments in life that are provocative in their very existences, that embed in our minds forever, and sometimes our very souls. They change us, mold us, maybe even save ...

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Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab

by Christine Montross

Published: 2008-05-27

Paperback: 320 pages

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A "gleaming, humane" (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and a first-year medical studentMedical student Christine Montross felt nervous standing outside the anatomy lab on her first day of class. Entering a room with stainless-steel tabl...

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A Fine Line (A Sebastian Drake Novel)

by Dan Burns

Published: 2017-05-16

Hardcover: 294 pages

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When a struggling author with a secret government past is hired by a wealthy philanthropist to investigate a cold murder case, he has no choice but to expose the dark and buried secrets of a powerful political family in Chicago.Sebastian Drake is a novelist working out of a dilapidated apa...