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Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel

by Marie Phillips

Published: 2008-12-09

Perfect Paperback: 320 pages

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Being a Greek god is not all it once was. Yes, the twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty-first century, but they are crammed together in a London townhouse-and none too happy about it. And they've had to get day jobs: Artemis as a dog-walker, Apollo as a TV psychic, Aphro...

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How the States Got Their Shapes

by Mr. Mark Stein

Published: 2008-05-27

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Why does Oklahoma have that panhandle? Did someone make a mistake?We are so familiar with the map of the United States that our state borders seem as much a part of nature as mountains and rivers. Even the oddities—the entire state of Maryland(!)—have become so engrained that our map m...

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Kill Your Friends: A Novel

by John Niven

Published: 2008-12-30

Paperback: 352 pages

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AS the twentieth century breathes its very last, with Britpop at its zenith, twenty-seven-year-old A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through London’s music industry. Blithely crisscrossing the globe in search of the next megahit—fueled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine—Stelfox...

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La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life

by Elaine Sciolino

Published: 2012-07-17

Paperback: 384 pages

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France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. Elaine Sciolino, the longtime Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, has discovered that seduction is much more. It is the key to understanding France and plays a crucial ...

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Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds

by Rusty Bradley, Kevin Maurer

Published: 2015-05-19

Paperback: 320 pages

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Includes a new Afterword by the authorsOne of the most critical battles of the Afghan War is now revealed as never before. Lions of Kandahar is an inside account from the unique perspective of an active-duty U.S. Army Special Forces commander, an unparalled warrior with multiple deployment...

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Love Stories of World War II

Published: 2001-11-06

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Both poignant and inspiring, these are the moving stories of men and women who met amid the chaos of the most devastating war in history and became the loves of one another’s lives. Many are now enjoying their seventies and eighties together after more than fifty happy years of marriage....

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Save Me the Waltz

by Zelda Fitzgerald

Published: 1968-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 206 pages

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Experiences shared by the Fitzgeralds are reflected in this novel depicting the life of a would-be ballerina

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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

by Austin Kleon

Published: 2012-02-28

Paperback: 160 pages

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You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, gra...

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Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes

by Jim Holt

Published: 2013-10-21

Paperback: 160 pages

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“Finally I understand what it is I’ve been laughing at all these years.”?Jimmy Kimmel From the best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist? comes this outrageous, uproarious compendium of absurdity, filth, racy paradox, and gratuitous  offensiveness?just the kind of mature philo...

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The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil

by Stephen Collins

Published: 2014-10-07

Hardcover: 240 pages

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NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe job of the skin is to keep it all in...On the island of Here, livin's easy. Conduct is orderly. Lawns are neat. Citizens are clean shaven-and Dave is the most fastidious of them all. Dave is bald, but for a single hair. He loves drawing, his desk job, and...