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  The Corrections

  by Jonathan Franzen

  After almost 50 years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children are all making catastrophes of their own lives. Enid however, has her heart set on one last family Christmas.
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  Eating Animals

  by Jonathan Safran Foer

  "Eating Animals" is the third book by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer. Published in 2009, it is an account of the author's investigation into the meat industry and factory foods.
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  Lit

  A Memoir

  by Mary Karr

  Mary Karr was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry in 2005 and has won Pushcart prizes for both her poetry and her essays. She has also published two bestselling memoirs: The Liars' Club , which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, and Cherry . She has received the Whiting Award and the Bunting Fellowship from Radcliffe College. Her poetry appears frequently in the New Yorker . She is the Peck Professor of English... (more)
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  Pink and Say

  by Patricia Polacco

  In a true story, Pinkus Aylee, a black Union soldier, finds Sheldon Curtis left for dead and carries him home to be tended by his mother, but when the two boys attempt to rejoin the Union troops, they are captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
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  Thought Experiment: Book 1

  God's Debris

  A Thought Experiment

  by Scott Adams

  In God's Debris, best-selling author and creator of Dilbert Scott Adams fashioned a thought-provoking exploration of life's great mysteries (everything from quantum physics and God to psychic phenomena and dating) that quickly captured the attention and imaginations of readers everywhere. The intriguing story of a deliveryman who meets the world's smartest person and learns the secret of reality is threaded with a... (more)
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  If the World Were a Village

  A Book About the World's People

  by David J. Smith, Shelagh Armstrong

  There are currently more than six billion people on the planet! This enormous number can be difficult to grasp, especially for a child. But what if we imagine the whole world as a village of just 100 people? In this village * 22 people speak a Chinese dialect * 20 earn less than a dollar a day * 32 are of Christian faith * 17 cannot read or write * 39 are under 19 years old In a time when parents and educators are... (more)
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  A Planet Called Treason

  by Orson Scott Card

  Republished under the title "Treason"Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad" -- radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh... and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. For, on a planet without hard metals -- or the means of escape -- iron is power in the race to build a... (more)
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  My Name is Asher Lev

  by Chaim Potok

  Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher’s passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, the other... (more)
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  The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte

  by Syrie James

  "I have written about the joys of love. I have, in my secret heart, long dreamt of an intimate connection with a man; every Jane, I believe, deserves her Rochester." Though poor, plain, and unconnected, Charlotte Bronte possesses a deeply passionate side which she reveals only in her writings—creating Jane Eyre and other novels that stand among literature's most beloved works. Living a secluded life in the... (more)
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  Taoism and Winnie-the-Pooh: Book 2

  The Te of Piglet

  by Benjamin Hoff

  In The Te of Piglet , a good deal of Taoist wisdom is revealed through the character and actions of A. A. Milne's Piglet. Piglet herein demonstrates a very important principle of Taoism: The Te-a Chinese word meaning Virtue-of the Small.
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  Heartburn

  by Nora Ephron

  Out of analysis and seven months pregnant, cookbook writer Rachel Samstat discovers that her husband is into analysis and an affair and suffers six weeks of intense heartburn.
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  Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time

  The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith

  by Marcus J. Borg

  Of the many recent books on the historical Jesus, none has explored what the latest biblical scholarship means for personal faith. Now, in Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg addresses the yearnings of those who want a fully contemporary faith that welcomes rather than oppresses our critical intelligence and openness to the best of historical scholarship. Borg shows how a rigorous examination of... (more)
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  Integrity

  by Stephen L. Carter

  Why do we care more about winning than about playing by the rules? Integrity - all of us are in favor of it, but nobody seems to know how to make sure that we get it. From presidential candidates to crusading journalists to the lords of collegiate sports, everybody promises to deliver integrity, yet all too often, the promises go unfulfilled. Stephen Carter examines why the virtue of integrity holds such sway... (more)
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  Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

  by Helen Fielding; Narrator-Tracie Bennett

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  Meeting of Minds

  The Complete Scripts, With Illustrations, of the Amazingly Successful PBS-TV Series - Series I

  by Steve Allen

  The award-winning PBS-TV network series "Meeting of Minds" received a more enthusiastic and complimentary reaction than any program ever carried on American educational television. Small wonder that the nation's television critics voted its scripts the "Best TV Writing of 1976-77," together with James Costigan's "Eleanor and Franklin." Here are the scripts of the First Series. The programs--unique, ... (more)
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  Do Try to Speak as We Do: The Diary of an American Au Pair

  by Marjorie Leet Ford

  How can you not love Melissa? She's so charming and so real - worrying about her sweet tooth and her weight, blowing hot and cold about her fianc back in the States, trying her best to decipher her testy employer's language. (Directed to prepare a "cot" for the youngest of her charges, she is chastised disgustedly. The small bed she carefully made is NOT a cot!A cot is what the benighted Americans call a... (more)
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  A Class Divided, Then and Now, Expanded Edition

  by William Peters

  Examines how a "discrimination" exercise in 1970 affected children participants then and in 1984.
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  The Touch

  by Steven Altman

  In the tradition of Coma and The Andromeda Strain comes the ultimate biological terror... A Depriver is someone who, for reasons still under scientific investigation, possesses and employs a defense mechanism that can drastically incapacitate other human beings. They are prohibited by law from touching anyone due to the inherent adverse effects of their touch. Some people, unfortunately, don't know... (more)
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  Sophie's Choice

  by William Styron

  In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness, confidant and supplicant. Ultimately, he arrives... (more)
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  Everything Happens for a Reason

  Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives

  by Mira Kirshenbaum

  Can it really be true that everything happens for a reason? As amazing as it sounds, it is. There is significance in every event of our lives, from the most joyful and empowering to the inexplicable or seemingly unjust. In Everything Happens for a Reason , psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum encourages us to discover the meaning in what has happened to us, seeing these experiences as gifts, lessons, or... (more)