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The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the American Athlete

by Ryan Swanson

Published: 2019-08-20

Hardcover: 336 pages

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In full and intricate detail, featuring an amazing cast of characters from the worlds of politics, athletics, entertainment and more, this is the story of how President Theodore Roosevelt helped shepherd in an American sports and fitness revolution.Crippling asthma and grossly myopic eyesi...

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Go Find: My Journey to Find the Lost - and Myself

by Susan Purvis

Published: 2018-10-02

Hardcover: 384 pages

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Somewhere between hunting for gold in Latin America as a geologist and getting married to a new husband, thirty-three-year-old Susan Purvis loses her way. Susan comes to believe that a puppy and working on ski patrol at the last great ski town in Colorado will improve her life. When she ...

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Where the River Runs Gold

by Sita Brahmachari

Published: 2019

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Two children must risk everything to escape their fate and find the impossible . . . A brave, thought-provoking adventure by award-winning author, Sita Brahmachari. Shifa and her brother, Themba, live in Kairos City with their father, Nabil. The few live in luxury, whilst the millions like them crowd...

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The Doll Factory: A Novel

by Elizabeth Macneal

Published: 2019-08-13

Hardcover: 368 pages

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The #1 International BestsellerNew York Times Editor’s Choice“A lush, evocative Gothic.” —The New York Times Book Review“This terrifically exciting novel will jolt, thrill, and bewitch readers.” —Booklist, starred reviewObsession is an art.In this “sharp, scary, gorgeo...

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Girl, Woman, Other

by Bernardine Evaristo

Published: 2019-05-02

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain, to black womanhood, to the ever-changing heart of LondonGirl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their famil...

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Captains of the Sands (Penguin Classics)

by Jorge Amado

Published: 2013-06-25

Paperback: 288 pages

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A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of BahiaA Penguin ClassicsThey call themselves “Captains of the Sands,” a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bah...

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Rapture Practice: A True Story About Growing Up Gay in an Evangelical Family

by Aaron Hartzler

Published: 2014-05-27

Paperback: 416 pages

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A true story about finding salvation in the strangest places. Aaron Hartzler grew up in a home where he was taught that at any moment the Rapture could happen. That Jesus might come down in the twinkling of an eye and scoop Aaron and his family up to heaven. As a kid, Aaron was thrilled by...

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Every Secret Thing: A Novel

by Laura Lippman

Published: 2011-08-16

Paperback: 448 pages

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From critically acclaimed, multiple-award winner Laura Lippman comes a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence.Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party find an abandoned stroller with an infant inside on an unfamiliar Baltimore street. What happens next i...

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Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 535 Easy(ish) Steps

by Kelly Williams Brown

Published: 2018-03-06

Paperback: 352 pages

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING GUIDE, WITH UPDATED MATERIAL AND A NEW FOREWORDIf you graduated from college but still feel like a student . . . if you wear a business suit to job interviews but pajamas to the grocery store . . . if you have your own apartment but no idea how to cook or cle...

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by Jonathan Tropper

Published: 2014

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Featuring cover artwork from the major motion picture starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, and Adam Driver "Often sidesplitting, mostly heartbreaking...[Tropper is] a more sincere, insightful version of Nick Hornby, that other master of male psyche." -USA Today The death of Judd Foxman's father marks the...