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<title><![CDATA[The Kitchen Counter Cooking School]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143122173</link>
<description><![CDATA[ The author of The Sharper Your Knife tells the inspiring  story of how she helped nine others find their inner cook After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, writer Kathleen  Flinn returned with no idea what to do next, until one day at a  supermarket she watched a woman loading her cart with ultraprocessed  foods. Flinn's "chefternal" instinct kicked in: she persuaded the  stranger to reload with fresh foods, offering her simple recipes for  healthy, easy meals.The Kitchen Counter Cooking School includes practical,  healthy tips that boost readers' culinary self-confidence,  and strategies to get the most from their grocery  dollar, and simple recipes that get readers cooking.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Kitchen Counter Cooking School]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathleen Flinn]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Penguin Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780143122173]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ The author of The Sharper Your Knife tells the inspiring  story of how she helped nine others find their inner cook After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, writer Kathleen  Flinn returned with no idea what to do next, until one day at a  supermarket she watched a woman loading her cart with ultraprocessed  foods. Flinn's "chefternal" instinct kicked in: she persuaded the  stranger to reload with fresh foods, offering her simple recipes for  healthy, easy meals.The Kitchen Counter Cooking School includes practical,  healthy tips that boost readers' culinary self-confidence,  and strategies to get the most from their grocery  dollar, and simple recipes that get readers cooking.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-09-25T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Diviners]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316126113</link>
<description><![CDATA[Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-toot-ly thrilled. New York is the city of speakeasies, shopping, and movie palaces! Soon enough, Evie is running with glamorous Ziegfield girls and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is Evie has to live with her Uncle Will, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult--also known as "The Museum of the Creepy Crawlies."When a rash of occult-based murders comes to light, Evie and her uncle are right in the thick of the investigation. And through it all, Evie has a secret: a mysterious power that could help catch the killer--if he doesn't catch her first.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Diviners]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Libba Bray]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Little, Brown Books for Young Readers]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780316126113]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-toot-ly thrilled. New York is the city of speakeasies, shopping, and movie palaces! Soon enough, Evie is running with glamorous Ziegfield girls and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is Evie has to live with her Uncle Will, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult--also known as "The Museum of the Creepy Crawlies."When a rash of occult-based murders comes to light, Evie and her uncle are right in the thick of the investigation. And through it all, Evie has a secret: a mysterious power that could help catch the killer--if he doesn't catch her first.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-09-18T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Every Day]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307931887</link>
<description><![CDATA[In his New York Times bestselling novel, David Levithan introduces readers to what Entertainment Weekly calls a "wise, wildly unique" love story about A, a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life.Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl. There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.With his new novel, David Levithan, bestselling co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, has pushed himself to new creative heights. He has written a captivating story that will fascinate readers as they begin to comprehend the complexities of life and love in A’s world, as A and Rhiannon seek to discover if you can truly love someone who is destined to change every day.  ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Every Day]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Levithan]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Knopf Books for Young Readers]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780307931887]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In his New York Times bestselling novel, David Levithan introduces readers to what Entertainment Weekly calls a "wise, wildly unique" love story about A, a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life.Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl. There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.With his new novel, David Levithan, bestselling co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, has pushed himself to new creative heights. He has written a captivating story that will fascinate readers as they begin to comprehend the complexities of life and love in A’s world, as A and Rhiannon seek to discover if you can truly love someone who is destined to change every day.  ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-08-28T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Liar & Spy]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385737432</link>
<description><![CDATA[The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of the Newbery Medal book When You Reach Me: a story about spies, games, and friendship. Seventh grader Georges moves into a Brooklyn apartment building and meets Safer, a twelve-year-old self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy recruit. His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives in the apartment upstairs. But as Safer becomes more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: what is a lie, and what is a game? How far is too far to go for your only friend? Like the dazzling When You Reach Me, Liar & Spy will keep readers guessing until the end.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Liar & Spy]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rebecca Stead]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Wendy Lamb Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780385737432]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of the Newbery Medal book When You Reach Me: a story about spies, games, and friendship. Seventh grader Georges moves into a Brooklyn apartment building and meets Safer, a twelve-year-old self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy recruit. His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives in the apartment upstairs. But as Safer becomes more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: what is a lie, and what is a game? How far is too far to go for your only friend? Like the dazzling When You Reach Me, Liar & Spy will keep readers guessing until the end.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-08-07T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Katerina's Wish]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781442433434</link>
<description><![CDATA[In this moving debut, an immigrant girl discovers that hard work and determination can make dreams come true.Katerina has a dream. It’s her papa’s dream, too. Her family came to America to buy their own farm. But a year later, Papa is still working in the dangerous coal mine. Each day, the farm seems farther away.Then Katerina is reminded of the carp that granted three wishes in an old folktale. When her younger sisters hear the story, they immediately make wishes. Trina doesn’t believe in such silliness—but what is she to think when her sisters’ wishes come true?A farm is still too big to wish for. But, with the help of the neighbor’s handsome son, Trina starts building her dream with hard work and good sense. Then tragedy strikes, and it seems that nothing Trina wishes for will ever come true again.With warmth and gentle humor, Jeannie Mobley tells the story of a girl whose determination is as inspiring as her dreams.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Katerina's Wish]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeannie Mobley]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Margaret K. McElderry Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781442433434]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In this moving debut, an immigrant girl discovers that hard work and determination can make dreams come true.Katerina has a dream. It’s her papa’s dream, too. Her family came to America to buy their own farm. But a year later, Papa is still working in the dangerous coal mine. Each day, the farm seems farther away.Then Katerina is reminded of the carp that granted three wishes in an old folktale. When her younger sisters hear the story, they immediately make wishes. Trina doesn’t believe in such silliness—but what is she to think when her sisters’ wishes come true?A farm is still too big to wish for. But, with the help of the neighbor’s handsome son, Trina starts building her dream with hard work and good sense. Then tragedy strikes, and it seems that nothing Trina wishes for will ever come true again.With warmth and gentle humor, Jeannie Mobley tells the story of a girl whose determination is as inspiring as her dreams.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-08-28T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Unspoken]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375870415</link>
<description><![CDATA[Kami Glass is in love with someone she's never met—a boy she's talked to in her head since she was born. This has made her an outsider in the sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale, but she has learned ways to turn that to her advantage. Her life seems to be in order, until disturbing events begin to occur. There has been screaming in the woods and the manor overlooking the town has lit up for the first time in 10 years. . . . The Lynburn family, who ruled the town a generation ago and who all left without warning, have returned. Now Kami can see that the town she has known and loved all her life is hiding a multitude of secrets—and a murderer. The key to it all just might be the boy in her head. The boy she thought was imaginary is real, and definitely and deliciously dangerous.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Unspoken]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Rees Brennan]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Random House Books for Young Readers]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780375870415]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Kami Glass is in love with someone she's never met—a boy she's talked to in her head since she was born. This has made her an outsider in the sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale, but she has learned ways to turn that to her advantage. Her life seems to be in order, until disturbing events begin to occur. There has been screaming in the woods and the manor overlooking the town has lit up for the first time in 10 years. . . . The Lynburn family, who ruled the town a generation ago and who all left without warning, have returned. Now Kami can see that the town she has known and loved all her life is hiding a multitude of secrets—and a murderer. The key to it all just might be the boy in her head. The boy she thought was imaginary is real, and definitely and deliciously dangerous.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-09-11T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Tigers in Red Weather]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780316211338</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war. Soon the gilt begins to crack. Helena's husband is not the man he seemed to be, and Hughes has returned from the war distant, his inner light curtained over. On the brink of the 1960s, back at Tiger House, Nick and Helena--with their children, Daisy and Ed--try to recapture that sense of possibility. But when Daisy and Ed discover the victim of a brutal murder, the intrusion of violence causes everything to unravel. The members of the family spin out of their prescribed orbits, secrets come to light, and nothing about their lives will ever be the same.Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Tigers in Red Weather]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liza Klaussmann]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Little, Brown and Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780316211338]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war. Soon the gilt begins to crack. Helena's husband is not the man he seemed to be, and Hughes has returned from the war distant, his inner light curtained over. On the brink of the 1960s, back at Tiger House, Nick and Helena--with their children, Daisy and Ed--try to recapture that sense of possibility. But when Daisy and Ed discover the victim of a brutal murder, the intrusion of violence causes everything to unravel. The members of the family spin out of their prescribed orbits, secrets come to light, and nothing about their lives will ever be the same.Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-07-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780486278070</link>
<description><![CDATA[Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton. The novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wilde's brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, 'You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.'. Encouraged by Lord Henry to substitute pleasure for goodness and art for reality, Dorian tries to watch impassively as he brings misery and death to those who love him. But the picture is watching him, and, made hideous by the marks of sin, it confronts Dorian with the reflection of his fall from grace, the silent bearer of what is in effect a devastating moral judgement.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Oscar Wilde; Cscar Wilde]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Dover Publications]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780486278070]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton. The novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wilde's brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, 'You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.'. Encouraged by Lord Henry to substitute pleasure for goodness and art for reality, Dorian tries to watch impassively as he brings misery and death to those who love him. But the picture is watching him, and, made hideous by the marks of sin, it confronts Dorian with the reflection of his fall from grace, the silent bearer of what is in effect a devastating moral judgement.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1993-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A Clockwork Orange]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780393089134</link>
<description><![CDATA[A newly revised text for "A Clockwork Orange"'s 50th anniversary that brings the work closest to Burgess' intentions.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[A Clockwork Orange]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Burgess; Andrew Biswell]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[W. W. Norton & Company]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780393089134]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[A newly revised text for "A Clockwork Orange"'s 50th anniversary that brings the work closest to Burgess' intentions.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Carrie]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307743664</link>
<description><![CDATA[Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. A candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her power and her sin. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offered Carrie a chance to be a normal and go to her senior prom. But another act--of ferocious cruelty--turned her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that her classmates would never forget.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Carrie]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen King]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Anchor]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780307743664]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates. Carrie White may have been unfashionable and unpopular, but she had a gift. Carrie could make things move by concentrating on them. A candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her power and her sin. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offered Carrie a chance to be a normal and go to her senior prom. But another act--of ferocious cruelty--turned her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that her classmates would never forget.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2011-08-30T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Malice of Fortune]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385536318</link>
<description><![CDATA[Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince...When Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, to the remote fortress city of Imola to learn the truth behind the murder of Juan, his most beloved illegitimate son, she cannot fail, for the scheming Borgia pope holds her own young son hostage. Once there, Damiata becomes a pawn in the political intrigues of the pope’s surviving son, the charismatic Duke Valentino, whose own life is threatened by the condottieri, a powerful cabal of mercenary warlords. Damiata suspects that the killer she seeks is one of the brutal condottierri, and as the murders multiply, her quest grows more urgent. She enlists the help of an obscure Florentine diplomat, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Valentino’s eccentric military engineer, Leonardo da Vinci, who together must struggle to decipher the killer’s taunting riddles: Leonardo with his groundbreaking “science of observation” and Machiavelli with his new “science of men.” Traveling across an Italy torn apart by war, they will enter a labyrinth of ancient superstition and erotic obsession to discover at its center a new face of evil—and a truth that will shake the foundations of western civilization. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Malice of Fortune]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Ennis]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Doubleday]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780385536318]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Against a teeming canvas of Borgia politics, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci come together to unmask an enigmatic serial killer, as we learn the secret history behind one of the most controversial works in the western canon, The Prince...When Pope Alexander dispatches a Vatican courtesan, Damiata, to the remote fortress city of Imola to learn the truth behind the murder of Juan, his most beloved illegitimate son, she cannot fail, for the scheming Borgia pope holds her own young son hostage. Once there, Damiata becomes a pawn in the political intrigues of the pope’s surviving son, the charismatic Duke Valentino, whose own life is threatened by the condottieri, a powerful cabal of mercenary warlords. Damiata suspects that the killer she seeks is one of the brutal condottierri, and as the murders multiply, her quest grows more urgent. She enlists the help of an obscure Florentine diplomat, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Valentino’s eccentric military engineer, Leonardo da Vinci, who together must struggle to decipher the killer’s taunting riddles: Leonardo with his groundbreaking “science of observation” and Machiavelli with his new “science of men.” Traveling across an Italy torn apart by war, they will enter a labyrinth of ancient superstition and erotic obsession to discover at its center a new face of evil—and a truth that will shake the foundations of western civilization. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-09-11T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Roots of the Olive Tree]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062130518</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Meet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women?an unbroken line of daughters?living together in the same house on a secluded olive grove in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California.   Anna, the family matriarch, is 112 and determined to become the oldest person in the world. An indomitable force, strong in mind and firm in body, she rules Hill House, the family home she shares with her daughter Bets, granddaughter Callie, great-granddaughter Deb, and great-great-granddaughter Erin. Though they lead ordinary lives, there is an element of the extraordinary to these women: the eldest two are defying longevity norms. Their unusual lifespans have caught the attention of a geneticist who believes they hold the key to breakthroughs that will revolutionize the aging process for everyone.   But Anna is not interested in unlocking secrets the Keller blood holds. She believes there are some truths that must stay hidden, including certain knowledge about her origins that she has carried for more than a century. Like Anna, each of the Keller women conceals her true self from the others. While they are bound by blood and the house they share, living together has not always been easy. And it is about to become more complicated now that Erin, the youngest, is back, alone and pregnant, after two years abroad with an opera company. Her return and the arrival of the geneticist who has come to study the Keller family ignites explosive emotions that these women have kept buried and uncovers revelations that will shake them all to their roots.   Told from varying viewpoints, Courtney Miller Santo's compelling and evocative debut novel captures the joys and sorrows of family?the love, secrets, disappointments, jealousies, and forgiveness that tie generations to one another. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Roots of the Olive Tree]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Courtney Miller Santo]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[William Morrow]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780062130518]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[ Meet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women?an unbroken line of daughters?living together in the same house on a secluded olive grove in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California.   Anna, the family matriarch, is 112 and determined to become the oldest person in the world. An indomitable force, strong in mind and firm in body, she rules Hill House, the family home she shares with her daughter Bets, granddaughter Callie, great-granddaughter Deb, and great-great-granddaughter Erin. Though they lead ordinary lives, there is an element of the extraordinary to these women: the eldest two are defying longevity norms. Their unusual lifespans have caught the attention of a geneticist who believes they hold the key to breakthroughs that will revolutionize the aging process for everyone.   But Anna is not interested in unlocking secrets the Keller blood holds. She believes there are some truths that must stay hidden, including certain knowledge about her origins that she has carried for more than a century. Like Anna, each of the Keller women conceals her true self from the others. While they are bound by blood and the house they share, living together has not always been easy. And it is about to become more complicated now that Erin, the youngest, is back, alone and pregnant, after two years abroad with an opera company. Her return and the arrival of the geneticist who has come to study the Keller family ignites explosive emotions that these women have kept buried and uncovers revelations that will shake them all to their roots.   Told from varying viewpoints, Courtney Miller Santo's compelling and evocative debut novel captures the joys and sorrows of family?the love, secrets, disappointments, jealousies, and forgiveness that tie generations to one another. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781616200398</link>
<description><![CDATA[After a great loss, a teenager with muscular dystrophy and his caregiver venture out in a hair-raising road trip across the American West, in this lively, soulful novel that ponders life's terrible surprises and the heart's ability to heal.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Evison]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781616200398]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[After a great loss, a teenager with muscular dystrophy and his caregiver venture out in a hair-raising road trip across the American West, in this lively, soulful novel that ponders life's terrible surprises and the heart's ability to heal.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A Good Hard Look]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143121152</link>
<description><![CDATA[Forced by illness to leave behind a successful life as a writer in New York, Flannery O’Connor has returned to her family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. She desires a quiet, solitary existence, but her mother, Regina, drags Flannery to the wedding of a family friend.The embodiment of southern womanhood, Cookie Himmel is Flannery’s antithesis and has returned from her time in Manhattan to marry rich fiancé, Melvin Whiteson. Lona Waters, a dutiful housewife, is hired by Cookie to help create a perfect home, but when she is given an opportunity to remember what it feels like to be truly alive, and she seizes it with both hands.In the course of one tragic afternoon, these characters must take a good hard look at the choices they have made and face up to O’Connor’s observation that “the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[A Good Hard Look]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Napolitano]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Penguin Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780143121152]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Forced by illness to leave behind a successful life as a writer in New York, Flannery O’Connor has returned to her family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. She desires a quiet, solitary existence, but her mother, Regina, drags Flannery to the wedding of a family friend.The embodiment of southern womanhood, Cookie Himmel is Flannery’s antithesis and has returned from her time in Manhattan to marry rich fiancé, Melvin Whiteson. Lona Waters, a dutiful housewife, is hired by Cookie to help create a perfect home, but when she is given an opportunity to remember what it feels like to be truly alive, and she seizes it with both hands.In the course of one tragic afternoon, these characters must take a good hard look at the choices they have made and face up to O’Connor’s observation that “the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-06-26T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Night Circus]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307744432</link>
<description><![CDATA[The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Night Circus]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erin Morgenstern]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Anchor]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780307744432]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-07-03T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Carry the One]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781451656930</link>
<description><![CDATA[“When you add us up, you always have to carry the one.” Following a devastating moment in the hours after Carmen’s wedding, three siblings and their friends move through the next twenty-five years under its long shadow. Through friendships and love affairs; marriage and divorce; parenthood, holidays, and the modest calamities and triumphs of ordinary days, Carry the One shows how one life affects another, and how those who thrive and those who self-destruct are closer to each other than we’d expect. Whether they take refuge in art, drugs, social justice, or love, Carol Anshaw’s characters are sympathetic, funny, and uncannily familiar as they reflect back to us our deepest pain and longings, our joys, and our transcendent moments of understanding.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Carry the One]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Anshaw]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Simon & Schuster]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781451656930]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[“When you add us up, you always have to carry the one.” Following a devastating moment in the hours after Carmen’s wedding, three siblings and their friends move through the next twenty-five years under its long shadow. Through friendships and love affairs; marriage and divorce; parenthood, holidays, and the modest calamities and triumphs of ordinary days, Carry the One shows how one life affects another, and how those who thrive and those who self-destruct are closer to each other than we’d expect. Whether they take refuge in art, drugs, social justice, or love, Carol Anshaw’s characters are sympathetic, funny, and uncannily familiar as they reflect back to us our deepest pain and longings, our joys, and our transcendent moments of understanding.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2012-10-23T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307277671</link>
<description><![CDATA[An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.A desperate race through  the cathedrals and castles of Europe.An astonishing truth concealed for centuries  . . . unveiled at last.While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened  by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been  murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and  gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are  stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues  visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.Even more startling,  the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—a secret society whose members  included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci—and he guarded a breathtaking  historical secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle—while  avoiding the faceless adversary who shadows their every move—the explosive, ancient  truth will be lost forever.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Brown]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Anchor]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780307277671]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci.A desperate race through  the cathedrals and castles of Europe.An astonishing truth concealed for centuries  . . . unveiled at last.While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened  by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been  murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and  gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are  stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues  visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.Even more startling,  the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—a secret society whose members  included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci—and he guarded a breathtaking  historical secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle—while  avoiding the faceless adversary who shadows their every move—the explosive, ancient  truth will be lost forever.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2006-03-28T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Chocolat]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780140282030</link>
<description><![CDATA[In tiny Lansquenet, where nothing much has  changed in a hundred years, beautiful newcomer                Vianne Rocher and her exquisite chocolate shop                arrive and instantly begin to play havoc with                Lenten vows. Each box of luscious bonbons comes                with a free gift: Vianne's uncanny perception of its                buyer's private discontents and a clever, caring                cure for them. Is she a witch? Soon the parish no                longer cares, as it abandons itself to temptation,                happiness, and a dramatic face-off between Easter                solemnity and the pagan gaiety of a chocolate                festival. Chocolat's every page offers a                description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of                chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets,                cookbook readers, and lovers of passion                everywhere. It's a must for anyone who craves an                escapist read, and is a bewitching gift for any                holiday.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Chocolat]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joanne Harris]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Penguin Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780140282030]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In tiny Lansquenet, where nothing much has  changed in a hundred years, beautiful newcomer                Vianne Rocher and her exquisite chocolate shop                arrive and instantly begin to play havoc with                Lenten vows. Each box of luscious bonbons comes                with a free gift: Vianne's uncanny perception of its                buyer's private discontents and a clever, caring                cure for them. Is she a witch? Soon the parish no                longer cares, as it abandons itself to temptation,                happiness, and a dramatic face-off between Easter                solemnity and the pagan gaiety of a chocolate                festival. Chocolat's every page offers a                description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of                chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets,                cookbook readers, and lovers of passion                everywhere. It's a must for anyone who craves an                escapist read, and is a bewitching gift for any                holiday.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2000-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Nineteen Minutes]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780743496735</link>
<description><![CDATA[Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.    Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show--destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Nineteen Minutes]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jodi Picoult]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Washington Square Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780743496735]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle, pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.    Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show--destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2008-02-05T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[33 Snowfish]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780763629175</link>
<description><![CDATA["Adam Rapp's brilliant and haunting story will break your heart. But then his words will mend it. . . . Absolutely unforgettable." - Michael CartOn the run in a stolen car with a kidnapped baby in tow, Custis, Curl, and Boobie are three young people with deeply troubled pasts and bleak futures. As they struggle to find a new life for themselves, it becomes painfully clear that none of them will ever be able to leave the past behind. Yet for one, redemption is waiting in the unlikeliest of places. With the raw language of the street and lyrical, stream-of-consciousness prose, Adam Rapp hurtles the reader into a world of lost children, a world that is not for the faint of heart. Gripping, disturbing, and starkly illuminating, his hypnotic narration captures the voices of two damaged souls - a third speaks only through drawings - to tell a story of alienation, deprivation, and ultimately, the saving power of compassion.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[33 Snowfish]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Rapp; Timothy Basil Ering]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Candlewick]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780763629175]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Adam Rapp's brilliant and haunting story will break your heart. But then his words will mend it. . . . Absolutely unforgettable." - Michael CartOn the run in a stolen car with a kidnapped baby in tow, Custis, Curl, and Boobie are three young people with deeply troubled pasts and bleak futures. As they struggle to find a new life for themselves, it becomes painfully clear that none of them will ever be able to leave the past behind. Yet for one, redemption is waiting in the unlikeliest of places. With the raw language of the street and lyrical, stream-of-consciousness prose, Adam Rapp hurtles the reader into a world of lost children, a world that is not for the faint of heart. Gripping, disturbing, and starkly illuminating, his hypnotic narration captures the voices of two damaged souls - a third speaks only through drawings - to tell a story of alienation, deprivation, and ultimately, the saving power of compassion.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2006-02-14T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Go Ask Alice]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781416914631</link>
<description><![CDATA[January 24th   After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs....   It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life.   Read her diary.   Enter her world.   You will never forget her.   For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl's harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful -- and as timely -- today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction. ]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Go Ask Alice]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Simon Pulse]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781416914631]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[January 24th   After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs....   It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life.   Read her diary.   Enter her world.   You will never forget her.   For thirty-five years, the acclaimed, bestselling first-person account of a teenage girl's harrowing decent into the nightmarish world of drugs has left an indelible mark on generations of teen readers. As powerful -- and as timely -- today as ever, Go Ask Alice remains the definitive book on the horrors of addiction. ]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2005-12-27T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Diary of a Young Girl]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780553296983</link>
<description><![CDATA[Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Diary of a Young Girl]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[B.M. Mooyaart; Eleanor Roosevelt; Anne Frank]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Bantam]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780553296983]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Mass Market Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1993-06-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Tuesdays with Morrie]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780767905923</link>
<description><![CDATA[It’s been ten years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world.  Now–twelve million copies later–in a new afterword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning of Morrie’s life lessons and the gentle, irrevocable impact of their Tuesday sessions all those years ago. . .                                                                       _____Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague.  Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder.  Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?Mitch Albom had that second chance.  He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life.  Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college.  Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live.Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Tuesdays with Morrie]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Albom]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Broadway]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780767905923]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[It’s been ten years since Mitch Albom first shared the wisdom of Morrie Schwartz with the world.  Now–twelve million copies later–in a new afterword, Mitch Albom reflects again on the meaning of Morrie’s life lessons and the gentle, irrevocable impact of their Tuesday sessions all those years ago. . .                                                                       _____Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague.  Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder.  Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?Mitch Albom had that second chance.  He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life.  Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college.  Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live.Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2002-10-08T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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