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Author	A.J. Jacobs
ISBN	0743250621

Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.

33,000 Pages
44 Million Words
10 Billion Years Of History
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Author	Frank McCourt
ISBN	0743243781

McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer.

Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his...

Author	Kate Alcott
ISBN	0385536496

From the best-selling author of The Dressmaker comes the warm-hearted and enthralling saga of a bold young woman caught between two worlds-the vibrant camaraderie of factory life and the opulence that a budding romance with the mill owner's son affords-as the murder of her best friend sends shock...

Author	Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
ISBN	2896472053

Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. S'y croisent sans se voir Roxane, Mélissa et Kevin, chacun de son côté du Bloc, chacun au départ de sa vie. À douze ans, ils composent avec le monde dans lequel ils arrivent. Entre le coin des putes, les matchs de lutte, les virées alcoolisées des adultes et la classe des...

Author	Alix Nathan
ISBN	0385545339

Herbert Powyss lives in an estate in the Welsh Marches, with enough time and income to pursue a gentleman's fashionable investigations and experiments in botany. But he longs to make his mark in the field of science--something consequential enough to present to the Royal Society in London. He hits...