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What do readers say about Eat Pray Love?
breezy, funny style stream of consciousness quick but fact-filled light and breezyA transformational journey through Italy, India, and Bali searching for pleasure and devotion-the massive bestseller from the author of Big Magic and City of Girls.
This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among both readers and re... More details on Eat Pray Love
Oh, but there are so many reasons why this would be a terrible idea. To begin with, Giovanni is ten years younger than I am, and—like most Italian guys in their twenties—he still lives with his mother...
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What do readers say about The Grand Sophy?
engaging and humorous regency romance novels a comic romp effervescent, witty, intelligent, hilariousIF YOU LOVE BRIDGERTON, YOU'LL LOVE GEORGETTE HEYER!
'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers ... the permanent glister of scandal [...] ties the whole thing together' INDEPENDENT
'One of my perennial comfort autho... More details on The Grand Sophy
THE BUTLER, recognizing her ladyship’s only surviving brother at a glance, as he afterward informed his less percipient subordinates, favored Sir Horace with a low bow, and took it upon himself to say...
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What do readers say about Collected Fictions?
depth and breadth awkward and stilted prose high quality work keeping things briefJorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English, all of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered into a single volume, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. From his 1935 debut... More details on Collected Fictions
In 1517, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brou...
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What do readers say about Old Bones?
engaging and humorous thoroughly traditional murder mystery about the author engaging and interesting charactersAn Edgar Award-winning mystery featuring the forensic anthropologist hailed as "a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth"-from the author of Switcheroo (Chicago Tribune).
"With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide t... More details on Old Bones
SO still and silent was the fog-wreathed form that it might have been an angular, black boulder. But there are no boulders, angular or otherwise, to mar the immense, flat tidal plain that is Mont St. ...
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What do readers say about Hattie Big Sky?
homesteading during wwi homesteading in early-20th-century montana young adult novel a great historical bookThis Newbery Honor winning, New York Times bestseller celebrates the true spirit of independence on the American frontier.
For most of her life, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has been shuttled from one distant relative to another. Tired of being Hat... More details on Hattie Big Sky
I ran into your mother today at Uncle Holt’s store. She said word is you are heading for England soon, France after that. I won’t hardly be able to look at the map behind Miss Simpson’s desk now; it w...
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What do readers say about Counting by 7s?
surviving the unexpected clear and concise language engaging and well-paced engaging and unpredictableA New York Times Bestseller
In the tradition of Out of My Mind, Wonder, and Mockingbird, this is an intensely moving middle grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family.
Willow Chance is a twelve-... More details on Counting by 7s
I’m imagining you see a tall tree with delicate leaves. You catch sight of swaying grass in a wide field. Weeds pushing up through a crack in the sidewalk are in the distance somewhere. We are surroun...
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What do readers say about Tell Me Where It Hurts?
emergency animal surgeries engaging and warm humorous and enlightening descriptive and unsentimentalFrom the front lines of modern medicine, Tell Me Where It Hurts is a fascinating insider portrait of a veterinarian, his furry patients, and the blend of old-fashioned instincts and cutting-edge technology that defines pet care in the twenty-first ... More details on Tell Me Where It Hurts
This might seem strange, coming from an Englishman, but sometimes emergency surgery in the middle of the night can play out like a synopsis of a perfect season for the Boston Red Sox. The beginning ma...
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What do readers say about Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It?
searching for meaning great little book beautiful smart and witty light and funnyA humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
Daniel Klein's fans have fallen in love with the warm, humorous, and thoughtful way he shows how philosophy re... More details on Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It
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What do readers say about Zoobiquity?
high-class pop culture engaging, educational and humorous love, war, and genius fun and enlighteningA revelatory depiction of what animals can teach us about the human body and mind, exploring how animal and human commonality can be used to diagnose, treat, and heal patients of all species.
"Full of fascinating stories." -Atul Gawande, M.D.
I reached for my car keys. For thirteen years I’d been a cardiologist treating members of my own species at the UCLA Medical Center. From time to time, however, the zoo veterinarians asked me to weigh...
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What do readers say about Searching for Dragons?
fun and light all the characters gpl 4. 0 license fun, anachronistic fantasyThe cast: an un-ordinary king, and an extraordinary princess, a couple of kooky giants, an overzealous magician, a loyal and helpful witch, and a host of evil and dangerous wizards.
The instruments: a broken-down magic carpet, a leaking magical sword... More details on Searching for Dragons
The King of the Enchanted Forest was twenty years old and lived in a rambling, scrambling, mixed-up castle somewhere near the center of his domain. He sometimes wished he could say that it was exactly...
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