In the tradition of Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad about My Neck, Jenna McCarthy dishes up her hilarious observations about the unique challenges of the midlife years, including sex, cosmetic surgery, dieting, parenting, the omnipresent bucket list, and why we’re always so damn f***ing tired.
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97 year old Louis Zamperini has lived one of the most amazing life stories imaginable. The story of an Olympic athlete, a soldier, a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp in WWII. He told it himself in the 2003 book DEVIL AT MY HEELS. But then Laura Hillenbrand told it in her 2010 book...
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Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to...
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Andrew Smart wants you to sit and do nothing much more often – and he has the science to explain why.
At every turn we’re pushed to do more, faster and more efficiently: that drumbeat resounds throughout our wage-slave society. Multitasking is not only a virtue, it’s a necessity. Books...
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A mosaic of stories that build an admirable novel about the circular nature of fate and the ability of the past to come knocking at our door when we least expect it.
In Puerto Negro, capital of the island of St. Kitts, everyone knows Santiago Cardamomo, a charming scoundrel who works as a...
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Sophie Porter is the last person in the world you’d expect to be an art thief with a renaissance masterpiece hidden in her cupboard… and that’s exactly why she’s so good at it.
Growing up on the road, Sophie longed for stability. So when she bought a stately townhouse with her husband...
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Mary Costello’s ACADEMY STREET is taken the world by storm and is already receiving incredible endorsements from no one other than JM Cotzee and fellow Irish writer John Boyne
'With extraordinary devotion, Mary Costello brings to life a woman who would otherwise have faded into oblivion...
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“[…] Perhaps most poignantly, though, it will be remembered for the questions it asks about size and scope. How large is the world in which we live? How far do our lives extend? Ray constantly probes the reader with that question in narratives both large and small. The book, which features...
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“Smoke River packs some stunningly hard punches – here is racial tension rendered with penetrating insight, raw feeling, turbulent violence and profound compassion. Each page ripe with sensual imagery, searing with political clout. Krista Foss has written a morally complex, magnificently...
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This book is a delight! - Anne Korkeakivi, author of An Unexpected Guest
Like Louise Fitzhugh's classic Harriet the Spy, the story is powered by a precocious and independent loner whose observations and reports are both charming and moving. Tita is a remarkable debut. - Katharine Weber,...
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John Searles’s Help for the Haunted is an unforgettable story of a most unusual family, their deep secrets, their harrowing tragedy, and ultimately, a daughter’s discovery of a dark and unexpected mystery.
Sylvie Mason’s parents have an unusual occupation—helping “haunted souls” find...
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Autumn 1919: The pull of scientific discovery brings Charles Proteus Steinmetz, brilliant mathematician, to town. His ability to capture lightning in a bottle earns him the title ‘Wizard of Electric City’. Steinmetz is barely four feet tall with a deeply curving spine, but his physical...
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Prayers Stay the Same (Dualar Kalıcıdır), 2007, novel 250 000 copies sold This novel is about a friendship between a female refugee in Istanbul during World War II and a young girl trying to survive in the city. In an "over-civilized" Central European country, fragile Rosella Galante and...
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MAINLANDER, the first novel from the unbelievably talented Will Smith – best known as a writer performer with a career spanning stand-up, acting and writing. Will was a writer for and starred in the THICK OF IT and more recently has worked as writer and co-producer on Emmy-winning HBO series...
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For fans of Denis Johnson and Peter Matthiessen, a literary thriller from one of the most exciting new voices in American fiction.
Bill Reed manages a wildlife sanctuary in rural Idaho, caring for injured animals—raptors, a wolf, and his beloved bear, Majer, among them—that are unable...
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