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Educating Peter: How I Taught a Famous Movie Critic the Difference Between Cabernet and Merlot or How Anybody Can Become an (Almost) Instant Wine Expert

by Lettie Teague

Published: 2007-03-13

Hardcover: 256 pages

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An executive editor for Food & Wine magazine recounts how she tutored her friend, a Rolling Stone film critic, on the intricacies of wine, from understanding how it is made and the proper reading of a label to the contributions of key wineries and the secrets of making an informed selectio...

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I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel

by Percival Everett

Published: 2009-05-26

Paperback: 234 pages

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I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in AmericaI was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I w...

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Wuthering Heights (ApeBook Classics; engl.) (Victorian Writers)

by Emily Brontë

Published: 2016-08-05

Paperback: 276 pages

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"Wuthering Heights" is the only novel of English author Emily Brontë (1818-1848). It was first published in 1847, though under the author´s pen name Ellis Bell. ------ Mr. Earnshaw finds a presumably orphaned boy on the streets of Liverpool and takes him to Wuthering Heights. There the boy, who is...

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The Percussionist's Wife: A Memoir of Sex, Crime & Betrayal

by Monica Lee

Published: 2012-08-13

Paperback: 308 pages

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"It will get worse before it gets better," I heard the full-bosomed tarot card reader tell my husband, who was being investigated for raping one of his drum line students. Two weeks later, my husband of 11 years was officially charged with forcing himself on his student, and the crime was reported in...

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Travel as a Political Act (Rick Steves)

by Rick Steves

Published: 2018-02-06

Paperback: 304 pages

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Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever.With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Er...

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The Bookstore: A Book Club Recommendation!

by Deborah Meyler

Published: 2013-08-20

Paperback: 336 pages

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A witty, sharply observed debut novel about a young woman who finds unexpected salvation while working in a quirky used bookstore in Manhattan.Brilliant, idealistic Esme Garland moves to Manhattan armed with a pres­tigious scholarship at Columbia University. When Mitchell van Leuven— a ...

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The Awakening of Miss Prim

by Sonia Soto (translator) Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera

Published: 2015-01-06

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Blood in the Promised Land

by Eliot Sefrin

Published: 2011-09-14

Hardcover: 328 pages

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It is 1943, and World War II rages on battlefields across the globe. But in America, another bloody, divisive battle rages as stepped-up wartime production lures legions of poor blacks from the rural South to defense jobs in the North-to a so-called "promised land" of opportunity. The wart...

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Colonial Horrors: Sleepy Hollow and Beyond

by Graeme Davis

Published: 2017-10-03

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The most spine-tingling suspense stories from the colonial era?including Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and H. P. Lovecraft?are presented anew to the contemporary reader. This stunning anthology of classic colonial suspense fict...

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The Enchanted Wanderer: And Other Stories (Vintage Classics)

by Nikolai Leskov

Published: 2014-01-14

Paperback: 608 pages

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Nikolai Leskov's writing exploded the conventions of nineteenth-century Russian fiction. Here is the other Russia, mythical and untamed: an uneasy synthesis of Orthodoxy and Old Believers, a land populated by soldiers and monks, serfs and princes, Tartars and gypsies—a vast country brimm...