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"Did you really have to write a book about the darkest chapter of your life?" my mother asked me. Sentenced to prison for smuggling marijuana, the author recounts his experiences inside and outside the prison. With courage and ingenuity, the musician tries to salvage what he can and finds a bookstore in Offenbach where he can work as a day release prisoner. On his free weekends, he goes on ... Read more

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"Did you really have to write a book about the darkest chapter of your life?" my mother asked me. Sentenced to prison for smuggling marijuana, the author recounts his experiences inside and outside the prison. With courage and ingenuity, the musician tries to salvage what he can and finds a bookstore in Offenbach where he can work as a day release prisoner. On his free weekends, he goes on
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The Book of Questions

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A new, updated edition of the thought-provoking, conversation-starting #1 New York Times–bestseller!This completely revised edition of the classic bestseller includes approximately three hundred questions—more than 100 of them all-new—that delve into such topics as:*The disappearing border between man and machine—How would you react if you learned that a sad and beautiful poem that touched you ... Read more

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A new, updated edition of the thought-provoking, conversation-starting #1 New York Times–bestseller!This completely revised edition of the classic bestseller includes approximately three hundred questions—more than 100 of them all-new—that delve into such topics as:*The disappearing border between man and machine—How would you react if you learned that a sad and beautiful poem that touched you
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How to Be Alone

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Musings on postmodern America by the National Book Award–winning author: "Why be alone? For the pleasure of reading books such as this." — Entertainment WeeklyHow to Be Alone is a powerful collection of nonfiction by the New York Times–bestselling author of novels including The Corrections, Freedom, and Crossroads. While the essays range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a ... Read more

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Musings on postmodern America by the National Book Award–winning author: "Why be alone? For the pleasure of reading books such as this." — Entertainment WeeklyHow to Be Alone is a powerful collection of nonfiction by the New York Times–bestselling author of novels including The Corrections, Freedom, and Crossroads. While the essays range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a
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**WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE • A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NEW YORKER, PITCHFORK, LITHUB, AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a memoir about drugs, techno, and New York City"The first great book about what it was like to live through the Trump presidency"—Emily Gould, The Cut**In the
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Guilt

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On a sweltering day in August, a small town drunkenly celebrates its six-hundredth anniversary with a funfair when an anonymous tip leads police to find a young woman brutally beaten, raped, and thrown under the floorboards of the very stage on which her attackers had just played a polka. An eight-member brass band composed of respectable family men with respectable day jobs is charged with the ... Read more

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Ciao, America!

An Italian Discovers the U.S.

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In the wry but affectionate tradition of Bill Bryson, Ciao, America! is a delightful look at America through the eyes of a fiercely funny guest—one of Italy’s favorite authors who spent a year in Washington, D.C.When Beppe Severgnini and his wife rented a creaky house in Georgetown they were determined to see if they could adapt to a full four seasons in a country obsessed with ice cubes, air ... Read more

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by Martin Goffa, Štěpán Kopřiva, Miloš Urban, Jiří W. Procházka, Chaim Cigan, Ondřej Neff, Petr Stančík, Kateřina Tučková, Markéta Pilátová, Michal Sýkora, Michaela Klevisová, Petra Soukupová, Irena Hejdová ...

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"The 14 crime stories set in Prague in this superior entry in Akashic's Noir Series offer armored car robbery, kidnapping, murder masked as suicide, and more--not bad for a burg that, as the editor notes in his intro, didn't even have 'the profession of private detective' until 1990...In the varied and polished content of this volume, readers will find much to amuse."--Publishers Weekly"Murder and ... Read more

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"The 14 crime stories set in Prague in this superior entry in Akashic's Noir Series offer armored car robbery, kidnapping, murder masked as suicide, and more--not bad for a burg that, as the editor notes in his intro, didn't even have 'the profession of private detective' until 1990...In the varied and polished content of this volume, readers will find much to amuse."--Publishers Weekly"Murder and
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A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the "Apologetic Bandit"In 2003 Daniel Genis, the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic, was fresh out of NYU when he faced a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and ultimately crime. After he was arrested for robbing people at knifepoint, he was nicknamed the “Apologetic Bandit” in ... Read more

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A memoir of a decade in prison by a well-educated young addict known as the "Apologetic Bandit"In 2003 Daniel Genis, the son of a famous Soviet émigré writer, broadcaster, and culture critic, was fresh out of NYU when he faced a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and ultimately crime. After he was arrested for robbing people at knifepoint, he was nicknamed the “Apologetic Bandit” in
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