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The Road to Joy

Letters to New and Old Friends

by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1989

The second volume of Thomas Merton's letters is devoted to his correspondence with friends -- relatives and family friends, longtime friends, special friends, young people he regarded as new friends, and circular letters addressed to groups of friends. They range from 1931, ten years before he became a monk, to 1968, the year in which he died at a monastic conference in Thailand.
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by Ron Rozelle
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015

When his father began to show signs of Alzheimer's disease, Rozelle watched the man's painful transformation into a dependent and ultimately foreign person. In this haunting memoir, Into That Good Night, Rozelle recreates and reclaims the past for his father, offering a son's gift that will echo for...
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A Gambling Man

Charles II's Restoration Game

by Jenny Uglow
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010

The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the startling role of credit and risk; from the shocking licentiousness of the court to failed attempts at religious tolerance. Negotiating all these, Charles II, the "slippery...
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Counting One's Blessings

The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012

William Shawcross's official biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, published in September 2009, was a huge critical and commercial success.One of the great revelations of the book was Queen Elizabeth's insightful, witty private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her letters...
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A Sense of Where You Are

Bill Bradley at Princeton

by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1999

When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee's first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates for the reader the training and techniques that made Bradley the extraordinary...
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Moving the Chains

Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything

by Charles P. Pierce
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007

When Tom Brady entered the 2005 NFL season as lead quarterback for the New England Patriots, the defending Super Bowl champions, he was hailed as the best to ever play the position. And with good reason: he was the youngest quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl; the only quarterback in NFL history...
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How the West Was Lost

Fifty Years of Economic Folly--and the Stark Choices Ahead

by Dambisa Moyo
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011

In How the West Was Lost, the New York Times bestselling author Dambisa Moyo offers a bold account of the decline of the West's economic supremacy. She examines how the West's flawed financial decisions have resulted in an economic and geopolitical seesaw that is now poised to tip in favor of the...
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Postcapitalism

A Guide to Our Future

by Paul Mason
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016

We know that our world is undergoing seismic change—but how can we emerge from the crisis a fairer, more equal society? Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes—economic cycles that veer from boom to bust—from which it has always emerged transformed...
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Here Come the Regulars

How to Run a Record Label on a Shoestring Budget

by Ian Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

Ian Anderson started recording music when he was thirteen and launched his own successful label, Afternoon Records, in 2003, when he was just eighteen. Now this wunderkind of the indie music scene has written the ultimate guide for all those aspiring to a career in the record industry.Here Come the...
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Bad Pharma

How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

by Ben Goldacre
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013

We like to imagine that medicine is based on evidence and the results of fair testing and clinical trials. In reality, those tests and trials are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors who write prescriptions for everything from antidepressants to cancer drugs to heart medication...
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Bad Paper

Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld

by Jake Halpern
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

The Federal Trade Commission receives more complaints about rogue debt collecting than about any activity besides identity theft. Dramatically and entertainingly, Bad Paper reveals why. It tells the story of Aaron Siegel, a former banking executive, and Brandon Wilson, a former armed robber, who become...
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The Sellout

A Novel

by Paul Beatty
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015

Winner of the Man Booker Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature New York Times Bestseller Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book...
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Disgruntled

A Novel

by Asali Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015

An elegant, vibrant, startling coming-of-age novel, for anyone who's ever felt the shame of being alive Kenya Curtis is only eight years old, but she knows that she's different, even if she can't put her finger on how or why. It's not because she's black—most of the other students in the...
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by Jeffrey Eugenides
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1993

The National Bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author of Middlesex and The Marriage Plot With a New Introduction by Emma Cline First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon...
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