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The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food

by Dan Barber

Published: 2015-04-07

Paperback: 496 pages

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“Not since Michael Pollan has such a powerful storyteller emerged to reform American food.” —The Washington PostToday’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the futu...

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The Story of a Brief Marriage: A Novel

by Anuk Arudpragasam

Published: 2017-09-19

Paperback: 208 pages

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Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize“Brave…Brilliant…This is a book that makes one kneel before the elegance of the human spirit and the yearning that is at the essence of every life.” ?The New York Times Book Review"One of the best books I have read in years." ?Colm ToibinTwo an...

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Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)

by Jane Austen

Published: 2003-04-29

Paperback: 480 pages

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Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood brin...

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Antigone

by Sophocles

Published: 2005-12-01

Paperback: 80 pages

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The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant translation of Sophocles' classic drama. The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone is an unconventional heroine who pits her beliefs against the King of Thebes in a bloody test of wills that l...

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CRUSH: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing, and the Lasting Power of Their First Celebrity Crush

by Cathy Alter, Dave Singleton

Published: 2016-04-05

Hardcover: 272 pages

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As seen in Cosmopolitan, Elle, O the Oprah Magazine, Redbook, InTouch, People, BUST, on Vogue.com and Harper's Bazaar Online.An Amazon Best Book of the Month in Humor & EntertainmentA star-studded collection of essays from acclaimed and bestselling authors and celebrities that illuminates ...

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Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

by Gary Younge

Published: 2016-10-04

Hardcover: 304 pages

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On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during one such day. It could have been any day, but he chose November 23, 2013. Black, white, and Lati...

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Clockers: A Novel

by Richard Price

Published: 2008-03-04

Paperback: 611 pages

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Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" (USA Today) At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack dealer...

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Warcross

by Marie Lu

Published: 2017-09-12

Hardcover: 368 pages

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu—when a game called Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its dangerous depths. For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and...

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The Sleepwalker: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Chris Bohjalian

Published: 2017-10-03

Paperback: 304 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a spine-tingling novel of lies, loss and buried desire--the mesmerizing story of a wife and mother who vanishes from her bed late one night.Gorgeous, blond, successful, living in a beautiful Victorian home in a Ve...

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Opal's Story: A Novel

by Phyllis H. Moore

Published: 2015-11-16

Kindle Edition: 231 pages

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Opal's Story is delivered in delicious bites with rich characters. A murder/suicide in 1948 rocks a small west Texas town and leaves a young widow with a new baby questioning her judgement. Opal Evans revisits that past as she faces a terminal illness destined to end her life before she ha...