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What do readers say about The Underground Railroad?
alternative historical fiction fresh and creative brilliant and affecting matter of factWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this #1 New York Times bestseller chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Vide... More details on The Underground Railroad
This was her grandmother talking. Cora’s grandmother had never seen the ocean before that bright afternoon in the port of Ouidah and the water dazzled after her time in the fort’s dungeon. The dungeon...
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What do readers say about The Midnight Library?
unique story plot entertaining and instructive contemporary fiction novel very simplistic and straightforwardThe New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon
Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year
"A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."-The ... More details on The Midnight Library
Mrs Elm made her first move. A knight hopping over the neat row of white pawns. ‘Of course, you’re going to be worried about the exams. But you could be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all tha...
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What do readers say about Woman?
a woman's tribute densely abstruse or fluffy a fascinating and revealing force and witNational Book Award finalist
A New York Times notable book
"A tour de force, a womderful, entertaining and informative book." -Abraham Verghese, New York Times Book Review
After fifteen years in print, Woman remains an essential guide to everything... More details on Woman
PUTAFEWADULTS in a room with a sweet-tempered infant, and you may as well leave a tub of butter sitting out in the midday sun. Within moments of crowding around the crib, their grown-up bones begin to...
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What do readers say about True Enough?
short and airy it's a liberal rant health care reform modern communications technology has shifted our understanding of the truthWhy has punditry lately overtaken news? Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they've been thoroughly discredited? And why, when more people than ever before are documenting the truth with laptops and digital came... More details on True Enough
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What do readers say about A Talent for War?
lots of small shoot offs and red herrings sparse a pleasant read set in an interesting universe a 200-year dead military heroThe acclaimed classic novel and fan favorite-the far-future story of one man's quest to discover the truth behind a galactic war hero.... More details on A Talent for War
Cam Chulohn loved the plain stone chapel. He knelt on the hard bench and watched the crystal water dribble across Father Curry's fingers into the silver bowl held by the postulant. The timeless symbol...
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What do readers say about One Life at a Time, Please?
more complicated picture abbey's great desert solitaire it has enough good in it to overcome the bad unevenFrom stories about cattlemen, fellow critics, his beloved desert, cities, and technocrats to thoughts on sin and redemption, this is one of our most treasured writers at the height of his powers.... More details on One Life at a Time, Please
When I first came West in 1948, a student at the University of New Mexico, I was only twenty years old and just out of the Army. I thought, like most simple-minded Easterners, that a cowboy was a kind...
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What do readers say about The Finkler Question?
love, loss and guilt three men and judaism funny and challenging terrifying but honestJulian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio
producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and
television personality, are old school friends. Despite very different
lives, they've never quite lost touch with ... More details on The Finkler Question
At around about this time - give or take half an hour - in a restaurant close by - give or take a quarter of a mile - Treslove's sons were settling the bill for dinner. They were in the company of the...
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What do readers say about The Dream of Enlightenment?
a very valuable historical overview and context a period that changed western cultural endlessly entertaining and frequently instructiveOne of Slate's 10 Best Books of the Year
Anthony Gottlieb's landmark The Dream of Reason and its sequel challenge Bertrand Russell's classic as the definitive history of Western philosophy.
Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but ... More details on The Dream of Enlightenment
DESCARTES (1596–1650) WAS A PARTICULARLY KNOWLEDGEABLE MAN, but he is more famous for what he pretended to doubt than for what he actually knew. How can I be sure that I am not dreaming?, he asked. Ho...
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What do readers say about On Writing?
the act of writing part memoir and part guide very frank and practical practical and common senseONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME
"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb vol... More details on On Writing
A year or so later, my mother, my brother, and I were in West De Pere, Wisconsin. I don’t know why. Another of my mother’s sisters, Cal (a WAAC beauty queen during World War II), lived in Wisconsin wi...
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What do readers say about Bird by Bird?
elegant and simple self deprecating humor captivating and motivational laugh out loud funnyFor a quarter century, more than a million readers-scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities-have been inspired by Anne Lamott's hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne'... More details on Bird by Bird
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice d...
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