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Where I live now : a journey through lov...
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The water beetles
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All we leave behind : a reporter's journ...
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The longest year
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We'll all be burnt in our beds some nigh...
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What the soul doesn't want : poems
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Uncertain weights & measures
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All the beloved ghosts
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Where it hurts : essays
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Lost in September
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Within the glass
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The way of the strangers : encounters wi...
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The hand-over : how bigwigs and bureaucr...
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In search of New Babylon
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Slow war
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The colony of unrequited dreams
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Brothers
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On not losing my father's ashes in the f...
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"A collection of poetry about aging, grief, and the eccentricities of the natural world -- a cockroach, an eggplant."--Provided by publisher.
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A woman emerging from mourning spends her savings on a fur coat, a coat she will wear to a dance that will change her life. A professor of cardiovascular physiology lingers on the cusp of consciousness as he waits for hi...
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"Through a series of personal essays, De Leeuw reflects on the fracturing and intangibility of loss"--Provided by publisher.
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The definitive book on the distinctive history and psychology of ISIS, based on Wood's unprecedented access to the Islamic State's own recruiters and supporters, and his extensive time reporting throughout the region. Ba...
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"The wily characters in this monumental western novel captivate and intrigue as they seek the American dream in a lawless town in the 1860s. Reverend Aaron is found lying unconscious on the dusty trail to a family farm s...
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"Based on the classic novel by Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is a fictionalized portrait of Joseph R. Smallwood, the controversial political figure who ambitiously led Newfoundland into Confederation wi...
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"In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared...
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