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Truck: A Love Story (P.S.)
by Michael Perry
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A follow-up to "Population: 485, Truck" chronicles a year in which Perry struggles to grow his own food, live peaceably with his neighbors, and sort out his love life. Hilarious and heartfelt, this memoir introduces readers to a wonderful and unique cast... ( read more)
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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
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The extraordinary bestselling true story of a young man's uncompromising pilgrimage that ended in tragedy.... ( read more)
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
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Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests... ( read more)
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
by Bill Bryson
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Following an urge to rediscover his youth, Bill Bryson left his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that would take him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook. With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of... ( read more)
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
by Bill Bryson
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The master humorist and bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods now guides us on an affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities.
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the... ( read more)
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The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
by John Bailey
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It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years... ( read more)
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The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
by George Howe Colt
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In this intimate and poignant history of a sprawling century-old summer house on Cape Cod, George Howe Colt reveals not just one family's fascinating story but a vanishing way of life. Faced with the sale of the treasured house where he had spent forty... ( read more)
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Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
by Michael Perry
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)
by David Laskin
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The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota,... ( read more)
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West of Then: A Mother, a Daughter, and a Journey Past Paradise
by Tara Bray Smith
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This literary debut is a devastating memoir about one young woman's search for her homeless mother, whose past is inextricably linked with the bittersweet history of the paradise from which she hails: Hawaii.... ( read more)
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Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
by Ben Hamper
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The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast.... ( read more)
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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
by Isabella Bird
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Women were scarce enough in the West of the late nineteenth century, and a middle-ages English lady traveling alone, by horseback, was a real phenomenon. It was during the autumn and early winter of 1873 that Isabella Bird made this extended tour of the... ( read more)
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The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. From Florida’s swamps to its courtrooms, the New Yorker writer... ( read more)
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
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The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America — majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you're going to take a hike, it's probably the place to go. And Bill... ( read more)
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PrairyErth
by William Least Heat-Moon
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A New York Times bestseller for three months. Heat-Moon covers distance of a different sort by staying put in Chase Country, Kansas.... ( read more)
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
by John Berendt
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Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks... ( read more)
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Looking for Alaska
by Peter Jenkins
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More than twenty years ago, a disillusioned college graduate named Peter Jenkins set out with his dog Cooper to look for himself and his nation. His memoir of what he found, A Walk Across America, captured the hearts of millions of Americans. Now, Peter... ( read more)
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The Lobster Chronicles: Life on a Very Small Island
by Linda Greenlaw
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After 17 years at sea, Linda Greenlaw decided it was time to take a break from being a swordboat captain, the career that would earn her a prominent role in Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and a portrayal in the subsequent film. Greenlaw decided to... ( read more)
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
by Mike Davis
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To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work... ( read more)
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
by Michael Capuzzo
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Michael Capuzzo has skillfully recreated the summer of 1916,
when a rogue great white shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey
shore. Recounting in chilling detail the terrifying attacks, the
ensuing panic, and the incredible hunt for the... ( read more)
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