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Title: I’m a Stranger Here Myself Author: Bill Bryson Format: Audiobook Audiobook length: 9 hrs 16 min Release Date: June 06, 2000 Publisher: Broadway Source: personal copy Read the back of the book After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed
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Title: Under the Streets of Nice Author: Ken Follett Format: Paperback Pages: 216 Release Date: 1978 Source: personal copy Read the back of the book Follett’s engaging Streets of Nice tells the true story of Albert Spaggiari, the man who engineered the European crime of the century. Intriguingly, he accomplished his 1976 bank heist “without guns, without violence, without hate.” Here is the breathtakingly compelling
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Title: Everybody Into The Pool: True Tales Author: Beth Lisick Format: Paperback Pages: 240 Release Date: 2005 Publisher: Avon Source: personal copy Read the back of the book Beth Lisick started out as a homecoming princess with a Crisco-aided tan and a bad perm. And then everything changed. Plunging headlong into America’s deepest subcultures, while keeping both feet firmly planted in her parents’ Leave It
Read moreTitle: Sometimes I Feel Like A Nut: Essays And Observations Author: Jill Kargman Format: Hardback Pages: 192 (2012 total – 3,619) Approx. Word Count: 38,400 (2012 total – 984,225) Release Date: January 24, 2011 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Categories: humor, memoir Source: Publisher Rating: 3 out of 5 Back of the book: Jill Kargman is a mother, wife, and writer living the life in New York
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