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Meet Lori Gottlieb, an insightful and compassionate therapist whose clients present with all kinds of problems. There's the struggling new parents; the older woman who feels she has nothing to live for; the self-destructive young alcoholic; and the terminally ill 35-year-old newlywed. And there's John, a narcissistic television producer, who frankly just seems to be a bit of a jerk. Over the course of a year, they all make progress. But Gottlieb is...
2) The store
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Imagine a near future of unparalleled convenience. A powerful retailer, the Store, can deliver anything to your door via drone, even anticipating needs and desires you didn't know you had. Most people are fine with that, but not Jacob and Megan Brandeis. New York writers whose livelihood is on the brink of extinction, Jacob and Megan have made a drastic decision--they're going undercover to dig up the Store's secrets in a book that could change the...
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"San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy “Two Toes” Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie’s Coffee Irregulars—a ragtag bunch of working mugs last seen in Noir—are on the hustle: they’re trying to open a driving school; shanghai an abusive Swedish stevedore; get Mable, the local madam, and her girls to a Christmas party at the State Hospital without alerting the overzealous head of the S.F.P.D. vice squad; all while Sammy’s girlfriend, Stilton...
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Gideon Crew volume 2
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After a standoff between a top nuclear scientist from Los Alamos and an innocent family taken hostage turns violent, Gideon Crew must track down a rogue nuclear device.
5) Next
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
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"We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars or test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes."
6) The odyssey
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The epic poem recounting the experiences of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.
A new translation of the epic poem, and the first by a woman, brings alive Homer's tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic, and provides an introductory overview of the poem's major themes, controversial origin, and the scope of its influence.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 "Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find...
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"In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and Built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant-- the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number 12 children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah's birth,...
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