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Rose and Walter Mortibois decided to throw an Easter weekend party at their country place. Bad idea. Lucy—Rose's sister—shows up with her husband Dick and their kid Robin. Then there's Gilbert, Walter's brother, plus a gaggle of other guests. What could go wrong? Everything, apparently.
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I grabbed this travel memoir for my trip—seemed fitting. At sixty, Bernard Ollivier, a former journalist, ditched his comfortable life and started walking. Not around the block. Across Anatolia. On foot. This first volume chronicles his trek through Turkey, and it's raw, honest, and occasionally brutal.
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Just a few snapshots from Morocco. Turns out the desert is hard to put into words. I loved nearly every moment, even when the weather turned nasty. Twenty-five hours of wind, sand in my teeth, sleeping under stars—it's the kind of thing you can't really explain to someone who wasn't there.
Keep ReadingClaiming physical, mental, moral, and nervous exhaustion—pretty real, honestly—plus a desperate need for a break, a spiritual retreat in wide-open spaces with clean air, silence, and solitude, he borrows the little Suzuki jeep and heads out. Sometimes you just need to disappear for a while.
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Adrian's nine. Lives in the sad suburbs of some forgettable town. He's just a regular kid. Well, not exactly. Taken from his mother, abandoned by his father, he ended up with his grandmother. Adrian's life is a mess, and Hartnett doesn't sugar-coat it.
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I used to think poets were ethereal types who lived on words and fresh air. This novel proves otherwise. Meet Ted Hughes—English, raised in the countryside, big on hunting and animal guts—and Sylvia Plath. Their relationship was electric, destructive, and absolutely fascinating.
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"A politician doesn't read books. At best, he reads the titles. Same with people." Everything you ever wanted to know about politics—without asking—Monsieur Kraus spills in these sharp, cynical chronicles. Tavares cuts through the BS with surgical precision.
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Commissioner Viviane Lancier—she insists on the feminine article—has problems. Still hung up on her ex, can't shake those last five pounds, tries every diet in the book. But mostly, she's got a murder case that involves poets. And she really, really hates poetry.
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"Down with the empire! Long live spring!" Remember them? Four eco-terrorists fighting to save the American West, armed with monkey wrenches and attitude. They're back. Abbey brings his crew together one more time for another round of sabotage, mayhem, and environmental justice.
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