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Nov.13.2008
The journalist who famously lived as a man commits herself-literally
Norah Vincent's New York Times bestselling book, Self-Made Man, ended on a harrowing note. Suffering from severe depression after her eighteen months living disguised as a man, Vincent felt she was a danger to herself. On the...
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Nov.13.2008
Shrewd, sympathetic, and courageous, Self-Made Man is one woman's take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man's world. With an ever-present five o'clock shadow, a crew cut, wire-rimmed glasses, and her own size 11½ shoes, Norah Vincent spent a year and a half as her male alter ego, Ned,...
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Oct.18.2008
One journalist's riveting -- and surprising -- in the trenches look at Alzheimer's.
Like many children of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease that seemed to erase her mother's identity. But suppose people with Alzheimer's are not slates...
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Aug.07.2008
From the author of the bestseller Getting Things Done, comes a new book that will change your life. Getting Things Done hit a nerve and spawned a movement with businesses, students, and techies all the way from Silicon Valley to Europe and Asia. Now, David Allen leads the world on a new path to...
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Jul.16.2008
This, the 2nd Viking Critical Library edition of John Steinbeck's classic novel, reinstates the author's original (and previously expurgated) text, and bundles that with an excerpt from the Benson biography of Steinbeck, an updated essay on the critical reception of the novel, a series of...
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Mar.11.2008
From Publishers Weekly"You'd think it'd take a while to go from "given-every-opportunity, spoiled-in-every-way... middle-class housewife... to homeless single mother," but Kennedy did it in less than a year. Just some "bad judgment calls and wrong decisions," and a smart...
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Feb.29.2008
The stunning first novel in a new Edwardian mystery series featuring the young heiress Ursula Marlow
An Oxford graduate, an aspiring journalist, and a devoted suffragette, Ursula Marlow is no ordinary Belgravian heiress. Despite her father's insistence for her to settle down and marry, Ursula...
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Jan.21.2008
Tall, blonde, and pretty, Kelsey may look like a perfect California girl, but she doesn’t feel like one.That is, until she starts dating a popular skater dude named C. J. Logan. But after a while, the life of a skater girlfriend begins to wear on Kelsey, and she decides to go it alone. C. J. doesn’...
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Jan.21.2008
For Anyone Who's Ever Been Dragged on a Family Vacation
Fourteen year-old Tracy Forrester is stuck at Farnsworth House, a big, rambly, slightly musty-smelling house on Cape Cod, for a retreat for divorced parents and their kids.
For friend potential, there's only Beka, the Angry Girl from New York...
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Jan.16.2008
Dead gyncologist, Dominatrixes, raging right wing aunties, Henri the 18-lb turtle, sex drugs and rock n roll. 2nd in Robin Hudson series.
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