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Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

by John Hodgman

Published: 2017-10-24

Hardcover: 272 pages

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“I love everything about this hilarious book except the font size.” —Jon StewartAlthough his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyo...

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All Passion Spent (Vintage Classics)

by Vita Sackville-West

Published: 2017-07-11

Paperback: 176 pages

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Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late.After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane—a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India—everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-y...

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* Poorly Written,
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Afterglow (a dog memoir)

by Eileen Myles

Published: 2017-09-12

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work “set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match” (New York Review of Books). This newest book paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a beloved confidant: t...

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* * * * Beautiful,
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Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel

by Mark Helprin

Published: 2017-10-03

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Mark Helprin’s powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour?a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust?mu...

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You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth

by Jen Sincero

Published: 2017-04-18

Hardcover: 288 pages

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“A cheerful manifesto on removing obstacles between yourself and the income of your dreams.” —New York MagazineFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass, a life-changing guide to making the kind of money you’ve only ever dreamed ofYou Are a Badass at Makin...

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Elmet

by Fiona Mozley

Published: 2017-12-05

Paperback: 320 pages

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FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The family thought the little house they had made themselves in Elmet, a corner of Yorkshire, was theirs, that their peaceful, self-sufficient life was safe. Cathy and Daniel roamed the woods freely, occasionally visiting a local woman for some schooling, ...

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The Return of the Native (Penguin Classics)

by Thomas Hardy

Published: 1999-08-01

Paperback: 496 pages

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‘You are ambitious, Eustacia–no not exactly ambitious, luxurious. I ought to be of the same vein, to make you happy, I suppose’Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath.  Hearing that Clym...

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In the Castle of the Flynns

by Raleigh

Published: 2002-02-01

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The year is 1954 and Daniel Dorsey learns at the age of eight the intimate meaning of death when his parents are killed in a car crash. Taken in by his colorful, at times mad, and always tender and caring extended family, Daniel learns that even the deepest sorrows and hurt can be healed.M...

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Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools (Volume 1)

by Victoria Twead

Published: 2014-07-05

Paperback: 226 pages

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*New York Times bestselling author* Book #1 in the Old Fools series. If Joe and Vicky had known what relocating to El Hoyo, a tiny mountain village in Andalucia, would really be like, they might have hesitated... They have no idea of the culture shock in store. No idea they'll help captur...

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Savage Country: A Novel

by Robert Olmstead

Published: 2017-09-26

Hardcover: 304 pages

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“The year was 1873 and all about was the evidence of boom and bust, shattered dreams, foolish ambition, depredation, shame, greed, and cruelty . . .” Onto this broken Western stage rides Michael Coughlin, a Civil War veteran with an enigmatic past, come to town to settle his dead broth...