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Dinner With Persephone - Patricia Storace
"I lived in Athens, at the intersection of a prostitute and a saint." So begins this astonishing memoir of fantastical peregrinations throughout Greece. Dinner with Persephone is a... -
Different - Youngme Moon
Why trying to be the best ... competing like crazy ... makes you mediocreEvery few years a book—through a combination of the author’s unique voice, storytelling abilit... -
Destiny Disrupted_ A History of - Tamim Ansary
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Death, Snow, and Mistletoe - Valerie S. Malmont
SUMMARY: Murder in the holiday spiritIt was Christmas in Lickin Creek, and all through the town something was stirring..The borough council was quarreling about the color of the Ch... -
Daughter of the Drow - Elaine Cunningham
Product DescriptionBeautiful as she is deadly, Liriel Baenre flits throught the shadows of Menzoberranzan, city of the dark elves. Amid treachery and murder that are the drow's dai... -
Darwin Slept Here - Eric N. Simons
For "Darwin Year," a fresh-eyed and enchanting journey through South America in his footsteps One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed "southernmost city in the wor... -
Dangerous Waters_ Modern Piracy - John Burnett
While sailing alone one night in the shipping lanes across one of the busiest waterways in the world, John Burnett was attacked by pirates. Through sheer ingenuity and a little bit... -
Contrarywise - Zohra Greenhalgh
SUMMARY:Rimble, the Trickster, is a merry god--dancing through streets as a gust of leaves, hobbling along canals as an old hag, roaming through gardens as a wiry dog. And w... -
Cod - Mark Kurlansky
A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble f... -
Cleaving - Julie Powell
Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do--until she embarked on the voyage recounted in h...