The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage
by Cathi Hanauer




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Great essays like these give you an opportunity to look at the world through another person's eyes and re-examine your own experiences. The 26 included here take you on a journey through the a myriad women's lives. I laughed, I cried, I felt better about... (read more)

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Chosen by a Horse
by Susan Richards


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The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn’t be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her heels, walked right up that ramp and into Susan’s life. This gentle creature—... (read more)

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Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
by Taras Grescoe


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An eye-opening look at aquaculture that does for seafood what Fast Food Nation did for beef. Dividing his sensibilities between Epicureanism and ethics, Taras Grescoe set out on a nine-month, worldwide search for a delicious — and humane —... (read more)

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And Only to Deceive
by Tasha Alexander


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From gifted new writer Tasha Alexander comes a stunning novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves stolen antiquities, betrayal, and murder And Only to Deceive For Emily, accepting... (read more)

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The Film Club: A Memoir
by David Gilmour




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What kind of father would allow his son to drop out of high school as long as the kid would agree to watch three movies of the father's choosing each week? Want to start an interesting conversation about parenting and education? Talk about what Gilmore... (read more)

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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga




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A remarkable first novel ingeniously written in the form of a letter to the Chinese premier soon to visit India, Adiga's dark yet witty debut brings to Western readers the tense drama of a developing country and a character caught up in corruption and... (read more)

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Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
by Arthur Herman


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In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and... (read more)

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The Host
by Stephenie Meyer


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The author of the Twilight series of #1 bestsellers delivers her brilliant first novel for adults: a gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded... (read more)

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Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks
by Lyanda Lynn Haupt




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Charles Darwin was a bumbling neophyte naturalist when he boarded the Beagle in 1831. Through the five years that followed, as the ship hugged the coastline of South America, Darwin found himself wading through waist-deep mud, climbing towerlike trees... (read more)

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The Story of a Marriage
by Andrew Sean Greer


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From the bestselling author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a love story full of secrets and astonishments set in 1950s San Francisco. "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery... (read more)

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I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by Sloane Crosley


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Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to... (read more)

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The Gift of Rain
by Tan Twan Eng




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I loved The Gift of Rain and will recommend it to all my bookselling friends. It's a beautiful work of historical fiction, but its themes also make it timely and relevant — a look at the excruciating choices that war inflicts on civilians. A small... (read more)

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09/11 8:48 AM: Documenting America's Greatest Tragedy
by BlueEar.com


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A stirring oral history capturing America's most tragic day. Edited by BlueEar.com and written in the voices of the survivors, witnesses and helpless onlookers of the "Attack on America", this chronicle has a raw style that captures the fragile humanity... (read more)

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The Historian: A Novel
by Elizabeth Kostova




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This is the perfect summer read — I promise. From Anne Rice to Stephen King to Bram Stoker and beyond, desire for tales from the crypt never seems to die. Even if you believe the Dracula legend has been bludgeoned to the thinnest pulp, you will be... (read more)

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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
by Benjamin Wallace


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It was the most expensivebottle of wine ever sold. In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by... (read more)

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The Lost Dog
by Michelle De Kretser




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A subtle, complicated, literary mystery about a lost dog, but underneath is a portrait of obsession. Michelle de Kretser, author of The Hamilton Case, possesses literary gifts that make The Lost Dog truly extraordinary. Recommended by Danielle, Powells.... (read more)

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Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Sixth Edition, 2 Volumes; with CD-ROM)
by Oxford University Press




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This updated two-volume edition is as wonderful as expected and is the next best thing to owning the 20-volume granddaddy version. Word-nerd heaven. Recommended by Kay, Powells.com... (read more)

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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes and Edith Grossman


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Edith Grossman's definitive English translation of the Spanish masterpiece. Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and... (read more)

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