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Ishmael
Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn
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For those of us who have been in the rat race of modern culture long enough that we have stopped thinking, and for those of us who have never deeply examined our place in the world, this book is an awakening. It just may change the way you think about... (read more)

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Diane Arbus: A Biography
Diane Arbus: A Biography
by Patricia Bosworth
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The inspiration for the new major motion picture Fur starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. "Haunted, disturbing….Bosworth has brought us tantalizingly close to her subject." So said Christopher Lehman-Haupt in the New York Times about this... (read more)

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Children's
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Nancy Drew #002: The Hidden Staircase
Nancy Drew #002: The Hidden Staircase
by Carolyn Keene
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Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion.... (read more)

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Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Anathem
Anathem
by Neal Stephenson
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For ten years Fraa Erasmas, a young avout, has lived in a cloistered sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside world. But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned... (read more)

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Religion Eastern
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The Art of War
The Art of War
by Sun Tzu and Thomas Cleary
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Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it... (read more)

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The Mauritius Command
The Mauritius Command
by Patrick O'Brian
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Captain Jack Aubrey is ashore on half pay without a command-until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands... (read more)

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The Eyre Affair  (Thursday Next #01)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #01)
by Jasper Fforde
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The Eyre Affair took me a little time to really get into, but once Thursday Next — a literary detective from the future — enters Charlotte Bronte's novel and tries to save Jane and the story, the book is thoroughly fun, with all the digs at the... (read more)

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Graphic Novels
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The Sandman #01: Preludes and Nocturnes
The Sandman #01: Preludes and Nocturnes
by Neil Gaiman
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Preludes and Nocturnes is the first volume in the story of The Sandman. Morpheus, the King of Dreams, has been held prisoner for 75 years by a wealthy madman. The world has suffered in his absence. Regaining his freedom, Morpheus must restore his... (read more)

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Westerns
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Kid Rodelo
Kid Rodelo
by Louis Lamour
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Joe Harbin no había matado a un hombre por una fortuna en oro para pudrirse en la cárcel y dejar que Rodelo se la arrebatara. Pero cuando él y sus hombres se fugan y van en busca del botín, acaban acompañados por un par de... (read more)

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World History
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to Rise of Medieval Europe (Hinges of History)
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to Rise of Medieval Europe (Hinges of History)
by Thomas Cahill
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A delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little known "hinge" of history in which the author shows that the Irish were not only conservators of civilization, but became shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western... (read more)

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Sports and Fitness
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The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power
The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power
by Travis Culley
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Travis Hugh Culley went to Chicago to make his name in its thriving theater scene, yet found in his day job a sense of community and fulfillment—and a brotherhood of like-minded individualists—that he encountered nowhere else. In The Immortal... (read more)

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Cimarron
Cimarron
by Miguel Barnet
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En 1963, Miguel Barnet conocio en Cuba al ultimo cimarron superviviente de America, un ex esclavo que logro huir a las cimas de los montes de la provincia de Las Villas: Esteban Montejo, de 103 anos de edad. Durante mas de tres anos, Barnet apunto la... (read more)

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Humor
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Forbidden Knowledge: 101 Things Not Everyone Should Know How to Do
Forbidden Knowledge: 101 Things Not Everyone Should Know How to Do
by James Gusto
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Want to know how to . . . start a riot? make moonshine? beat a lie detector test? True, if everyone know how to do such things, the world may not be a better place. But for you, this is just the sort of Forbidden Knowledge that can transform... (read more)

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