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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 Memoirs of a Geisha?
first person narration japanese cinderella story entertaining and insightful rags to riches taleA literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's Th... More details on Memoirs of a Geisha
Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said t...
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What do readers say about Modern Romance?
light and humorous romance and dating research backed nonfiction flat and unengaging proseThe #1 New York Times Bestseller
"An engaging look at the often head-scratching, frequently infuriating mating behaviors that shape our love lives." -Refinery 29
A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern ... More details on Modern Romance
Many of the frustrations experienced by today’s singles seem like problems unique to our time and technological setting: not hearing back on a text. Agonizing over what really is your favorite movie f...
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What do readers say about Boomerang?
snarky and glib collection of essays the financial crisis a short bookFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Big Short, Liar's Poker and The Blind Side!
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering ... More details on Boomerang
Just after October 6, 2008, when Iceland effectively went bust, I spoke to a man at the International Monetary Fund who had been flown in to Reykjavík to determine if money might responsibly be lent t...
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What do readers say about Nine Perfect Strangers?
character driven stories my first libby book easy, witty style tongue in cheek humorNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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"If three characters were good in Big Little Lies, nine are even better in Nine Perfect Strangers." -Lisa Scottoline, The New York Times Book Review
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author o... More details on Nine Perfect Strangers
It was his first day as a trainee paramedic. His third call-out. Yao wasn’t nervous, but he was in a hypervigilant state because he couldn’t bear to make even an inconsequential mistake. When he was a...
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What do readers say about Fool?
brilliant and tricky bastardized british style a bawdy tale it transcends potty humor"Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students."
-Dallas Morning News
Fool-the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore-i... More details on Fool
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What do readers say about Lost At Sea?
brilliant, entertaining and insightful a collection of stories stranger than fiction stories humorous journalism gameNew York Times-bestselling author of The Psychopath Test Jon Ronson writes about the dark, uncanny sides of humanity with clarity and humor. Lost at Sea-now with new material-reveals how deep our collective craziness lies, even in the most mundane ci... More details on Lost At Sea
Milwaukee. A bad part of town. From all around, thousands of young men and women, wearing clown face paint, are descending upon a disused indoor swimming pool that has been transformed into a music ve...
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What do readers say about The Bookseller of Kabul?
a documentary novel simple and dull entertaining and insightful easy to readTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other … compelling' CHRISTINA LAMB, SUNDAY TIMES
For more than twenty years Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul, defied the authorities - be they communist or Tali... More details on The Bookseller of Kabul
Sultan needed help. A suitor cannot himself ask for a girl’s hand. It is an Afghan custom that one of the women of the family conveys the proposal and gives the girl the once-over to assure herself th...
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What do readers say about Faithful?
fun reliving certain games collection of diary entries entertaining and insightful a book for red sox fansA chronicle of the Boston Red Sox's 2004 baseball season features a running diary of observations, arguments, play analyses, and controversial management decisions, as recorded by a pair of best-selling horror writers and diehard Red Sox fans.... More details on Faithful
I want to get up and be at the practice fields by nine. I expect it’ll be just me and Steph, but Trudy comes too, driving while I navigate. We peel off the Tamiami Trail and in a few blocks we see Cit...
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What do readers say about House?
simple and straightforward love kidder's prose art versus commerce as entertaining and insightfulIn the New York Times bestseller House, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder takes readers to the heart of the American Dream: the building of a family's first house with all its day-to-day frustrations, crises, tensions, challenges, and tr... More details on House
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