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A Memoir of Life in Death
by Jean-Dominique Bauby
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by Ruth Fitzmaurice
Published Mar 2019
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Published Sep 2016
Read ReviewsIn a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris a common woodland snail.
by Joan Didion
Published Feb 2007
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by Christopher Reeve
Published Jun 1999
Read ReviewsThe determined, passionate story of one man, and how he and his family came to grips with the kind of devastating, unexplainable shock that fate can bring to any of us.
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