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Feed the Beast

Steve Thompson

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A fiercely funny look at the rocky relations between our press and politicians in a world of...

Big Brother

Lionel Shriver

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The new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. Pandora has...

Stepmom (1998)

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Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents...

Women and Museums 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge

Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams and Kate Hill

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This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles...

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The Sportswriter

Richard Ford | 2006 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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"These two novels are about Frank Bascombe, a middle-aged man living in New Jersey. The Sportswriter begins a few years after the death of one of his children, and by the end of Independence Day, you’ve followed him for the next eight or so years. These are two of the greatest books about grief. Bascombe doesn’t sit in a corner and weep, but you know that his life has been affected by that loss. He used to be married; he used to have a family. It’s also incredibly accurate and illuminating about how men think. At the end of the first book, Bascombe wonders if one effect of life is to cover you in a residue “of all the things you’ve done and been and said and erred at.” In that instant, the veil lifts, and he feels a sense of being free again. But he also realizes that this lightness won’t last. And, worse, that it might not come again."

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