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Pretend I'm Dead: A Novel

by Jen Beagin

Published: 2018-05-15

Hardcover: 240 pages

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Miranda July meets Mary Karr in this brilliant debut novel from Jen Beagin, Whiting Award winner and “one of the freshest voices I've read in years—funny, wise, whip-smart and compassionate” (Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins), about a cleaning lady on a quest for self-accep...

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Conundrum: The Evolution of Homosexuality

by N.J. Peters

Published: 2006-02-20

Paperback: 208 pages

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A pro-gay, pro-science look at a vexing issue ... evolutionary biology suggests that individual living things are designed to reproduce. So why does homosexuality exist? Wouldn't a gay gene ensure its own demise? Conundrum pulls together information from biology, anthropology, and recent lesbian and...

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The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain

by James Fallon

Published: 2014-10-28

Paperback: 256 pages

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“Compelling, essential reading for understanding the underpinnings of psychopathy.” — M. E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a SociopathFor his first fifty-eight years, James Fallon was by all appearances a normal guy. A successful neuroscientist and professor, he’d been rais...

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Mark Twain - Roughing It

by Mark Twain

Published: 2016-12-14

Paperback: 166 pages

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"Roughing It" is another one of Mark Twain's chronicles of his wandering years, this one being the prequel to "Innocents Abroad." His adventures take place in the Wild West, Salt Lake City and even in Hawaii - among other places. He even enlists as a Confederate cavalryman for some time. The book is...

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The Word Is Murder: A Novel

by Anthony Horowitz

Published: 2018-06-05

Hardcover: 400 pages

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SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a fictional version of himself as the Watson to a modern-day Ho...

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Guernica

by Dave Boling

Published: 2009

Paperback: 0 pages

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"Boling threads his way through the stories of his many characters with humor, compassion and rich details of Basque tradition…Moving."?Washington Post Book World In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself on the wrong side of the Spanish Nationalists, so he flees to Guernica, the most ancien...

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Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)

by Paulo Coelho

Published: 2005-03-29

Paperback: 273 pages

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Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer....

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Emergency Contact

by Mary H. K. Choi

Published: 2018-03-27

Hardcover: 400 pages

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“Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book.” —Rainbow RowellFrom debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory—perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park ...

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Awakening Your Ikigai: How the Japanese Wake Up to Joy and Purpose Every Day

by Ken Mogi

Published: 2018-01-02

Hardcover: 224 pages

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“Awakening Your Ikigai is really quite a delightful look at sometimes mystifying Japanese traditions.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIntroducing IKIGAI: find your passions and live with joyIkigai is a Japanese phenomenon commonly understood as “your reason to get up in the morning....

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Edokko: Growing up a Stateless Foreigner in Wartime Japan (Holocaust/WWII memoirs by seasidepress)

by Isaac Shapiro

Published: 2017-11-06

Paperback: 202 pages

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In 1926, professional musicians Constantine Shapiro, born in Moscow, 1896 and Lydia Chernetsky (Odessa, 1905) met and married in Berlin, Germany after their respective families had suffered continuous persecution in war-torn Russia, or the Soviet Union, as it was known after 1922. With Hitler’s national...