Songs of the Baka and Other Discoveries: Travels after Sixty-Five
By: Dennis James
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Abandoning the comfort and security of a typical retirement, a couple travels and treks through the…
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1. Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles
By: Simon Winchester
3.58
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In the late 1980s, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester set out on foot to discover… read more
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2. Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
By: Rebecca Paley , Leah Remini
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memo… read more
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"By their actions, they will show you who they are."-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
"Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves."-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
"He wasn't attached to Scientology like I was. For him it was simply a tool to better your life. Then, if it wasn't doing that, it was time to leave the church."-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
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3. Chocolate And Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren
By: Alan Coren , Victoria Coren , Giles Coren
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
In a prolific 40-year career Alan Coren wrote for the Times, Observer, Tatler, Daily Mail, Mail on … read more
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4. Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
By: Anthony Doerr
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Shell Collector and About Grace comes an evocative memoir of t… read more
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5. Never Coming Back
By: Alison McGhee
3.54
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Clara Winter left her rural Adirondack Mountain town for college, she never looked back. Her m… read more
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6. A Meal In Winter
By: Sam Taylor , Hubert Mingarelli
4.30
Format: 503 pages, Hardcover
One morning, in the dead of winter, three German soldiers are dispatched into the frozen Polish cou… read more
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7. My Latest Grievance
By: Elinor Lipman
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
My Latest Grievance stars the beguiling teenager Frederica Hatch, the "Eloise of Dewing College." B… read more
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8. The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean
By: Philip Caputo
4.24
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
In The Longest Road, one of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, … read more
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9. Mornings with Barney: The True Story of an Extraordinary Beagle
By: None
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
I enrolled Barney in obedience school. If I had known how being 'bad' would be part of his charm an… read more
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10. The Windfall
By: Soneela Nankani , Diksha Basu
3.82
Format: 4 pages, Audio CD
For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha's lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corner… read more
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11. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
By: Eunsun Kim , Sébastien Falletti , David Tian
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the moder… read more
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12. Cowboy and His Elephant
By: Malcolm MacPherson
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the late 1980s, a female baby elephant was born on the plains of Southern Africa. In a "cull," h… read more
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13. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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"Many things get broken in a war."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
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"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
14. Displaced (Displaced, #1)
By: Stephen Drake
4.09
Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition
When Kevin Murdock, martial artist and outdoorsman extraordinaire, is revived from suspended animat… read more
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15. The Bookshop
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.28
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bo… read more
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"Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
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"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una libreria -le dijo Florence-. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
"Hojear libros es parte de la tradición de una librería —le dijo Florence—. Debes dejar que se queden y toquen los libros."-Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
16. The Postmistress of Paris
By: Meg Waite Clayton
3.75
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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"No one suspects American women of anything but needlepoint. Men so seldom imagine us capable of the things we're capable of."-Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris
"Even in the darkest times at Camp des Milles, the men kept making art and music, literature, theatre. It was how they stayed alive. How they helped the world right itself."-Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris
17. Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival
By: Spencer Schneider
3.53
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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18. The Girl in the Corn
By: Jason Offutt
3.60
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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19. Winds of the Steppe: Walking the Great Silk Road from Central Asia to China
By: Bernard Ollivier
4.32
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
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20. Attribution
By: Linda Moore
4.06
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
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21. Songs of the Baka and Other Discoveries: Travels after Sixty-Five
By: Dennis James
4.04
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Abandoning the comfort and security of a typical retirement, a couple travels and treks through the… read more
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