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A Personal History with Jigsaws
by Margaret Drabble
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Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening
by Carol Wall
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsA true story of a unique friendship between two people who had nothing - and ultimately everything - in common
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsWitty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
by Wendy Moore
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsMoore resurrects history from dry names and dates, and vividly recreates this eerily familiar era with a historian's love for detail and a storyteller's passion for a good yarn.
by Joan Didion
Published Feb 2007
Read Reviews'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.'
by Simon Winchester
Published Oct 2004
Read ReviewsA scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the Oxford English Dictionary. Browse an exclusive excerpt at BookBrowse.
by David Sacks
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsA fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet, and into cultural history with twenty-six fact-filled "biographies" of letters A through Z.
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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