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  On Bullshit

  by Harry G. Frankfurt

  One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is... (more)
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  The Night Watch

  by Sarah Waters

  A novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, thrilling coincidences, and psychological complexity, by the author of the Booker Prize finalist Fingersmith . Sarah Waters, whose works set in Victorian England have awards and acclaim and have reinvigorated the genres of both historical and lesbian fiction, returns with novel that marks a departure from nineteenth... (more)
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  Heaven Is for Real

  A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

  by Todd Burpo

  A young boy emerges from life-saving surgery with remarkable stories of his visit to heaven.Heaven Is for Real is the absolutely 100% true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven. He survives and begins talking about being able to look down and see the doctor operating and his dad praying in the waiting room.... (more)