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How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Saving the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time

by Will McCallum

Published: 2018-10-30

Hardcover: 208 pages

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'We have a responsibility, every one of us' David Attenborough Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the ocean than fish by weight. Plastic pollution is the environmental...

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After the Party

by Cressida Connolly

Published: 2018-09-25

Hardcover: 304 pages

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'Had it not been for my weakness, someone who is now dead could still be alive. That is what I believed and consequently lived with every day in prison.' It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister's grand country house, she soon finds...

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Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

by Salman Rushdie

Published: 1992-05-01

Paperback: 439 pages

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“Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdie’s masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and insight and passion. How literature of the highest order can serve the interests...

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Come with Me: A Novel

by Helen Schulman

Published: 2018-11-27

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, A New York Post Best Book of the WeekRecommended by Vogue, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Skimm, The BBC, Southern Living, Pure Wow, Hey Alma, Esquire, EW, Refinery 29, Bust, and Read It or ...

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Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

by Audrey Niffenegger

Published: 2009-09-29

Hardcover: 416 pages

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Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin niece...

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Rosanna of the Amish

by YODER JOSEPH

Published: 1995-12-08

Paperback: 320 pages

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The thrilling narrative of Rosanna McGonegal Yoder, the Irish Catholic baby girl, who lived with an Amish woman, Elizabeth Yoder. All the episodes of Rosanna of the Amish are based on fact. Joseph W. Yoder gives an honest, sympathetic, straightforward account of the religious, social, and economic customs...

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The Wrong Heaven

by Amy Bonnaffons

Published: 2018-07-17

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Including the story "Horse," as heard on This American Life. For fans of George Saunders and Karen Russell, an "amazing, wildly inventive" collection of stories that straddles the line between the real and the fantastical. (Kevin Wilson)In The Wrong Heaven, anything is possible: bodies can...

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A Matter of Honour

by Jeffrey Archer

Published: 2015

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The Young Visiters, or Mr. Salteena's Plan

by Daisy Ashford

Published: 2012-12-18

Paperback: 48 pages

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'The Young Visiters' is the book that started the schoolchild genre subsequently defined by '1066 and All That' and Molesworth's various manuals such as 'Down with Skool' and 'Whizz for Atoms'. As with 'The Young Visiters', the grammar, the language and the authorial viewpoint of those classics contribute...

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Owl Moon

by Jane Yolen

Published: 1987-10-23

Hardcover: 32 pages

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Late one winter night a little girl and her father go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is silent as a dream. Whoo-whoo-whoo, the father calls to the mysterious nighttime bird.But there is no answer.Wordlessly the two companions walk along, for when you go owling you d...