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How to Grow Old (2019)

English | November 14th, 2019 | ISBN: 1529105390, 1529105412 | 320 Pages | EPUB | 2.02 MB Intimate confessions and spit-your-dentures-out hilarious commentary – this is observational comedy at its best. How to Grow Old is a stupid title, because the answer is obvious: Don’t Die. Provided you...
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The Toni Morrison Book Club (2020)

English | February 4th, 2020 | ISBN: 029932494X | 208 Pages | EPUB | 1.72 MB In this startling group memoir, four friends-black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born-use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism...
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Mae Murray (2012)

2012 | 393 Pages | ISBN: 0813136903 | PDF | 5.5 MB Mae Murray (1885-1965), popularly known as “the girl with the bee-stung lips,” was a fiery presence in silent-era Hollywood. Renowned for her classic beauty and charismatic presence, she rocketed to stardom as a dancer in the...
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Math Makers (2020)

English | February 1st, 2020 | ISBN: 1633885208 | 435 Pages | True PDF | 11.32 MB An entertaining history of mathematics as chronicled through fifty short biographies. Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were...
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My Good Fortune (2019)

English | June 7th, 2019 | ISBN: 1644386097, 1644386100 | 192 Pages | EPUB | 6.35 MB Orphaned as a child, Lu Chi Fa survived brutality and starvation in China during and after World War II. Once sold for two sacks of rice, in 1951 he fled to...
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Ian Fleming (2020)

English | January 30th, 2020 | ISBN: 1785905473 | 384 Pages | EPUB | 8.44 MB Forged during the Second World War, the close and abiding friendship of Robert Harling and Ian Fleming, one of the twentieth century’s most iconic authors, would go on to define the lives...
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Texas Monthly On . . .: Texas Women (2006)

2006 | 229 Pages | ISBN: 0292713274 | PDF | 3 MB Since 1973, Texas Monthly has spotlighted hundreds of Texans who, for better or worse, make this state like no place else. TEXAS MONTHLY On . . . Texas Women profiles thirteen women who are not only...
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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir, UK Edition (2020)

English | January 14th, 2020 | ISBN: 0008296855 | 304 Pages | EPUB | 0.84 MB At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else’s...
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