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<title><![CDATA[Little Bee]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781416589648</link>
<description><![CDATA[This haunting, New York Times bestselling novel tells the story of an African refugee, nicknamed Little Bee, whose violent and courageous journey from a Nigerian beach to a suburban London home and back puts a stunning face on the worldwide refugee crisis. WE DON'T WANT TO TELL YOU TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS BOOK. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn't. And it's what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Little Bee]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Cleave]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781416589648]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[This haunting, New York Times bestselling novel tells the story of an African refugee, nicknamed Little Bee, whose violent and courageous journey from a Nigerian beach to a suburban London home and back puts a stunning face on the worldwide refugee crisis. WE DON'T WANT TO TELL YOU TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS BOOK. It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn't. And it's what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-02-16T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Incendiary]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781439157176</link>
<description><![CDATA[You aren't stupid. You know there's no such thing as a perfect mother. Plenty of other books will tell you there is, but this one  won't lie to you.    I was weak and I cheated and I was punished, but my god I loved my child through all of it. Love means you never  break, and it means you're stronger than the things they  do to you. I know this is true because I have been through  fire, and I am the proof that love survives.    I am not a perfect mother but I will tell you the perfect  truth, because this is you and me talking.    This is my story.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Incendiary]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Cleave]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781439157176]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[You aren't stupid. You know there's no such thing as a perfect mother. Plenty of other books will tell you there is, but this one  won't lie to you.    I was weak and I cheated and I was punished, but my god I loved my child through all of it. Love means you never  break, and it means you're stronger than the things they  do to you. I know this is true because I have been through  fire, and I am the proof that love survives.    I am not a perfect mother but I will tell you the perfect  truth, because this is you and me talking.    This is my story.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-12-29T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A Covert Affair]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781439163528</link>
<description><![CDATA[Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child’s experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery and honor. It is the fascinating portrait of a group of idealistic men and women who were recruited by the citizen spy service, slapped into uniform, and dispatched to wage political warfare in remote outposts in Ceylon, India, and China. The eager, inexperienced 6 foot 2 inch Julia springs to life in these pages, a gangly golf-playing California girl who had never been farther abroad than Tijuana. Single and thirty years old when she joined the staff of Colonel William Donovan, Julia volunteered to be part of the OSS’s ambitious mission to develop a secret intelligence network across Southeast Asia. Her first post took her to the mountaintop idyll of Kandy, the headquarters of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the supreme commander of combined operations. Julia reveled in the glamour and intrigue of her overseas assignment and lifealtering romance with the much older and more sophisticated Paul Child, who took her on trips into the jungle, introduced her to the joys of curry, and insisted on educating both her mind and palate. A painter drafted to build war rooms, Paul was a colorful, complex personality. Conant uses extracts from his letters in which his sharp eye and droll wit capture the day-to-day confusion, excitement, and improbability of being part of a cloak- and-dagger operation. When Julia and Paul were transferred to Kunming, a rugged outpost at the foot of the Burma Road, they witnessed the chaotic end of the war in China and the beginnings of the Communist revolution that would shake the world. A Covert Affair chronicles their friendship with a brilliant and eccentric array of OSS agents, including Jane Foster, a wealthy, free-spirited artist, and Elizabeth MacDonald, an adventurous young reporter. In Paris after the war, Julia and Paul remained close to their intelligence colleagues as they struggled to start new lives, only to find themselves drawn into a far more terrifying spy drama. Relying on recently unclassified OSS and FBI documents, as well as previously unpublished letters and diaries, Conant vividly depicts a dangerous time in American history, when those who served their country suddenly found themselves called to account for their unpopular opinions and personal relationships.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[A Covert Affair]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennet Conant]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781439163528]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child’s experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery and honor. It is the fascinating portrait of a group of idealistic men and women who were recruited by the citizen spy service, slapped into uniform, and dispatched to wage political warfare in remote outposts in Ceylon, India, and China. The eager, inexperienced 6 foot 2 inch Julia springs to life in these pages, a gangly golf-playing California girl who had never been farther abroad than Tijuana. Single and thirty years old when she joined the staff of Colonel William Donovan, Julia volunteered to be part of the OSS’s ambitious mission to develop a secret intelligence network across Southeast Asia. Her first post took her to the mountaintop idyll of Kandy, the headquarters of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the supreme commander of combined operations. Julia reveled in the glamour and intrigue of her overseas assignment and lifealtering romance with the much older and more sophisticated Paul Child, who took her on trips into the jungle, introduced her to the joys of curry, and insisted on educating both her mind and palate. A painter drafted to build war rooms, Paul was a colorful, complex personality. Conant uses extracts from his letters in which his sharp eye and droll wit capture the day-to-day confusion, excitement, and improbability of being part of a cloak- and-dagger operation. When Julia and Paul were transferred to Kunming, a rugged outpost at the foot of the Burma Road, they witnessed the chaotic end of the war in China and the beginnings of the Communist revolution that would shake the world. A Covert Affair chronicles their friendship with a brilliant and eccentric array of OSS agents, including Jane Foster, a wealthy, free-spirited artist, and Elizabeth MacDonald, an adventurous young reporter. In Paris after the war, Julia and Paul remained close to their intelligence colleagues as they struggled to start new lives, only to find themselves drawn into a far more terrifying spy drama. Relying on recently unclassified OSS and FBI documents, as well as previously unpublished letters and diaries, Conant vividly depicts a dangerous time in American history, when those who served their country suddenly found themselves called to account for their unpopular opinions and personal relationships.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-04-05T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Final Forest]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780140177503</link>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[The Final Forest]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[William  Dietrich]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Penguin (Non-Classics)]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780140177503]]></dc:identifier>
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<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1993-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Hidden Forest]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780870710940</link>
<description><![CDATA[Veteran science writer Jon Luoma uncovers the inner workings of an ancient forest, from the microscopic bugs in the soil to the giant trees.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Hidden Forest]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon R. Luoma]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Oregon State University Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780870710940]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Veteran science writer Jon Luoma uncovers the inner workings of an ancient forest, from the microscopic bugs in the soil to the giant trees.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2006-04-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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