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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
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"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was  ten years old at the time, was trying to get a  report on birds written that he'd had three months to  write. It was due the next day. We were out at our  family... (read more)

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Pieter Hugo: This Must Be the Place
Pieter Hugo: This Must Be the Place
by Tj Demos
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Filled with startling portraits of Africa's raw and tragic beauty, this first retrospective of Pieter Hugo's award-winning work collects the most important images from the photographer's career to date. Pieter Hugo has been documenting his native... (read more)

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #12: The Penultimate Peril
A Series of Unfortunate Events #12: The Penultimate Peril
by Lemony Snicket
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The stakes just got higher at Hotel Denouement — no orphan is safe, as plot twists abound and shudder-causing jeopardy is rife. Read this, the next-to-last installment, at your own risk!... (read more)

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The Caves of Steel (The Robot Series #01)
The Caves of Steel (The Robot Series #01)
by Isaac Asimov
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How To Meditate a Practical Guide
How To Meditate a Practical Guide
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What is meditation? Why practice it? Which technique is best for me? How do I do it? The answers are in this book.... (read more)

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Wish You Well
Wish You Well
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David Baldacci has always delivered great stories, authentic characters, and thought-provoking ideas since he burst on the literary scene with Absolute Power. Now this versatile writer movingly evokes the charms of rural America as he makes us believe in... (read more)

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W is for Wasted
W is for Wasted
by Sue Grafton
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Of the #1 New York Times–bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, “Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters.” Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other Id never laid eyes on until I... (read more)

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Bucko
Bucko
by Jeff Parker and Erika Moen
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After discovering a dead body in an office bathroom, hungover job interviewee Rich "Bucko" Richardson becomes suspected of the murder. What he thinks is a quest to find the real killer turns into a weeklong romp through the wilds of Portland, Oregon... (read more)

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Brimstone
Brimstone
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Cole and Hitch are back in a new Western classic... The guns-for-hire introduced in Robert B. Parker's Appaloosa are back... When Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch track down the woman who stole Virgil's heart, they find a dispirited prostitute rather than... (read more)

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World History
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
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From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this... (read more)

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The Art of Doubles
The Art of Doubles
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English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary
English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary
by Kenneth Katzner
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Based on American rather than British English, this is among the first Russian dictionaries revised for the post-Soviet era. Includes new political terminology, new Russian institutions, new countries and republics and new city names. Contains 26,000... (read more)

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French for Cats
French for Cats
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