BARGAIN KINDLE BOOK PACK #1 – {12-29-2012}
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Memoirs, Science & Math, Biological Sciences, Animals, Zoology, Invertebrates, Nature & Ecology, Fauna, Nature Writing, Nonfiction, Professional & Technical, Professional Science, Science
Rating: 4.5 – {99 Reviews}
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f rapt attention is a kind of prayer, then this is a prayerful book. Bailey pays homage to splendors small and humble enough to fit inside a terrarium.” –Scott Russell Sanders
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her encounter with a Neohelix albolabris–a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches the wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings and comes to a greater understanding of her own confined place in the world.
Intrigued by the snail’s molluscan anatomy, cryptic defenses, clear decision making, hydraulic locomotion, and mysterious courtship activities, Bailey becomes an astute and amused observer, offering a candid and engaging look into the curious life of this underappreciated small animal. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a remarkable journey of survival and resilience, showing us how a small part of the natural world illuminates our own human existence and provides an appreciation of what it means to be fully alive.
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A Friend of the Family
Lauren Grodstein
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, United States, Chick-Lit, Domestic Life, Mystery Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Thrillers, Psychological Thrillers, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers
Rating: 4.1 – {84 Reviews}
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ete Dizinoff, a skilled and successful New Jersey internist, has a loving and devoted wife, a network of close friends, an impressive house, and, most of all, a son, Alec, now nineteen, on whom he has pinned all his hopes. But Pete hadn’t expected his best friend’s troubled daughter to set her sights on his boy. When Alec falls under her spell, Pete sets out to derail the romance, never foreseeing the devastating consequences.
In a riveting story of suburban tragedy, Lauren Grodstein charts a father’s fall from grace as he struggles to save his family, his reputation, and himself.
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Fearless: One Woman, One Kayak, One Continent
Joe Glickman
Genre(s): Biographies & Memoirs, Specific Groups, Adventurers & Explorers, Literature & Fiction, Literary, Sports & Outdoors, Biographies, Water Sports, Kayaking, Sea Kayaking, Travel, Australia & South Pacific, Australia, General, Sports
Rating: 4.6 – {48 Reviews}
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ike the instant classic The Last American Man, Fearless is the story of a remarkable individual who accepts no personal limits–including fear. Freya Hoffmeister, a forty-six-year-old former sky diver, gymnast, marksman, and Miss Germany contestant, left her twelve-year-old son behind to paddle alone and unsupported around Australia–a year-long adventure that virtually every expert guaranteed would get her killed. She planned not only to survive the 9,420-mile trip through huge, shark-infested seas, but to do it faster than the only other paddler who did it.
As journalist and expert kayaker Joe Glickman details the voyage of this Teutonic force of nature, he captures interminable days on the water and nights camped out on deserted islands; hair-raising encounters with crocs and great white sharks; and the daring 300-mile open-ocean crossing that shaved three weeks off her trip. For 332 days Glickman followed Freya’s journey on her blog–along with a far-flung audience of awestruck, even lovesick, groupies–as she took on one terrifying ordeal after the next. In the end, he says, “her vanity and pigheadedness paled next to her nearly superhuman ability to master fear and persevere.”
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Rose’s Garden: A Novel
Carrie Brown
Genre(s): Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, United States, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Science Fiction
Rating: 3.6 – {23 Reviews}
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onrad and Rose met as children, fell in love as teenagers, and married young. Conrad earned a living as a gilder, raised homing pigeons, and worshipped Rose. Rose gardened. They lived together for more than fifty years, and then Rose died. At seventy-five, Conrad found himself alone, staring at the walls of his house and neglecting Rose’s garden. Then an angel came to the garden, the last person he ever thought to see wearing wings. Startled, he felt compelled to spread the news throughout his town, and to his surprise, people he’d known all his life began to reveal their deepest selves to him. ROSE’S GARDEN tells an unforgettable story of a woman whose garden extended far beyond the boundaries of property and time, and the man who came into full blossom in its bower. “A sweet, gentle first novel.”–Publishers Weekly; “This is a finely crafted, deeply touching love story.”–Booklist; “A wise, surprisingly deft, fablelike first novel celebrating the rejuvenating effects of love. . . . A warm, remarkably surefooted debut.”–Kirkus Reviews; “Beautiful, bittersweet, and always moving, it is highly recommended. ROSE’S GARDEN is a joy to visit.”–Library Journal.
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Last Bite: A Novel of Culinary Romance
Nancy Verde Barr
Genre(s): Cookbooks Food & Wine, Literature & Fiction, Contemporary, United States, Romance, Cooking Food & Wine, Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
Rating: 4.0 – {12 Reviews}
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fter ending a bad relationship, Casey Costello, an executive chef at a morning television show, swears off men. Who has the time anyway? She’s busy overseeing a rambunctious food-prep crew in a kitchen the size of a closet; trying to please high-maintenance celebrity guest chefs; and dealing with her large extended Italian American family, who believe that the solutions to life’s problems involve food. And in the midst of her high-energy, stress-inducing career–punctuated by a steady stream of parties and restaurant openings that must not be missed–she’s trying to uncover why Sally Woods, a grand old dame of the culinary world and regular on the television show, is suddenly ready to jump ship and find a new station and a new executive chef.
When Danny O’Shea, a handsome chef from one of New York’s hottest new restaurants, makes a guest appearance on the show, Casey smells trouble. But feelings ignite faster than a flambé dessert, especially when Danny whips up a few surprises during a television shoot in Italy.
Narrated in Casey’s smart and refreshingly disarming voice, Last Bite is an irresistible culinary caper, with characters whose appetites are as big as their personalities.
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