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Cures for Hunger
by Deni Y. Béchard
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Goose Lane Editions
April 27 2012
Hardcover
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“A moving story of rebellion, lost love, criminal daring, and restless searching. Driven above all by the need to grasp his father’s secrets, Béchard has written his narrative in skillful, resonant prose graced with a subtle tone of obsession and longing.” — Leonard Gardner, author of Fat City (20120509)...
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)
by Cheryl Strayed
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 (23 customer reviews)
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Knopf
Mar 20 2012
Hardcover
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From Author Cheryl Strayed Oprah with Cheryl Strayed, author of Book Club 2.0's inaugural selection, Wild. I wrote the last line of my first book, Torch, and then spent an hour crying while lying on a cool tile floor in a house on a hot Brazilian island. ...
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My Year of the Racehorse: Falling in Love With the Sport of Kings
by Kevin Chong
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(1 customer review)
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Greystone Books
Mar 2 2012
Paperback
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"""There are plenty of tidbits for the equine ignorant like me -- why racehorses have such silly names, and a chapter on horse genital hygiene -- and gripping personal narratives of those behind-the-scenes of smalltime horse racing, but the heart of the bo...
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A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring
by Nahlah Ayed
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(5 customer reviews)
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Viking Canada
April 10 2012
Hardcover
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“Ayed’s voice is fresh in Middle East coverage. She is plain-spoken, intellectually honest.” - National Post“Powerful … [A Thousand Farewells is] part memoir, part history lesson on the Arab world—and quietly, but oh so passionately, a defence of good old-fashioned journalism in a time of cost cuts and Google ...
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True North: A Life Inside the Music Business
by Bernie Finkelstein
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 (3 customer reviews)
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McClelland & Stewart
April 17 2012
Hardcover
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"A fast-paced, fascinating tour of the tumultuous birth of the Canadian music industry, by an insider who knows the business and the personalities better than anyone else. Gripping, gritty and gracefully written -- it doesn't get better than this." ...
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To the Last Breath: A Memoir of Going to Extremes
by Francis Slakey
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Simon & Schuster
May 8 2012
Hardcover
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“Intrepid Francis Slakey scales each continent's highest peak, surfs every ocean, and lives to tell the tale in To The Last Breath, an exhilarating thrill show for armchair adventurers who prefer air conditioning to thin air.” —Vanity Fair“When a Georgetown physics professor saw his existence becoming mundane, he actually ...
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Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection
by A. J. Jacobs
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 (3 customer reviews)
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Simon & Schuster
April 10 2012
Hardcover
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"A.J. Jacobs is very, very bad for your health. He will keep you up reading til 2 a.m., disturbing your circadian rhythms, making you sleep through breakfast and overeat at lunch. He is delicious. He's habit-forming. He will give you infectious titters an...
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Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
by Scott Jurek
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(12 customer reviews)
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Mariner Books
Jun 5 2012
Hardcover
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"The surprise here isn't that Scott Jurek knows a lot about nutrition...
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)
by Jenny Lawson
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 (32 customer reviews)
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Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
April 17 2012
Hardcover
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"Even when I was funny, I wasn't this funny." —Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors and This is How “There’s something wrong with Jenny Lawson—magnificently wrong. I defy you to read her work and not hurt yourself laughing.” —Jen Lancaster“The Bloggess writes stuff that actually is laugh-out-loud, but ...
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Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
by Anna Quindlen
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(2 customer reviews)
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Random House
April 24 2012
Hardcover
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Praise for Anna Quindlen “A reporter by training, a storyteller at heart, [Quindlen’s] writing is personal, humorous, and thought-provoking.”—The Seattle Post-Intelligencer “Quindlen is an astonishingly graceful writer.”—San Francisco Examiner “Thank goodness for Anna Quindlen. [She] is smart. And compassionate. And witty. And wise.”—Detroit Free-Press “[Quindlen ...
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