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A captivating, witty novel about two very different sisters engaged in a dangerous sibling rivalry, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Hot Flashes. Unglamorous Natalie Karavan Myers is a social worker-though currently unemployed-who had been running a women's homeless shelter in the nation's capital until the Reagan government cut her budget. Her sister, Stephanie "Shay" Karavan, is a famous investigative journalist with a sex life as...
14) What on Earth is Going On?: A Crash Course in Current Affairs: A Crash Course in Current Affairs
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"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." Gertrude Stein READ BY TOM BAIRD AND ARTHUR HOUSE. The world's a complex and bewildering place. Every day we are bombarded with far information than we can possibly hope to absorb. We don't have the time, energy or patience to process it all and select what's important, and sometimes it's tempting to drop the news section straight in the bin and curl up on the sofa...
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Wanting peace and quiet, and a low profile so he can recover from a series of traumatic events, Liko moves to an isolated island in the Gulf of Mexico. Maritauqua Island seems to provide what he's looking for: a quiet job as a security guard, and time to himself.
All that changes when he meets Hugo Haruun, a street artist living in a park. Liko learns that Hugo has witnessed and survived a civil war and genocide in his home country, and suffers from...
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Haarun is a political thriller about Zahi Haarun, an economics professor, who sells his soul to a Middle-Eastern kleptocracy. After reading about himself in his deceased wive's diary, he decides to reclaim his personal integrity. Liko helps Zahi and his brother, Hugo Haarun, who is a well-known international artist, take on the powerful, wealthy, and vicious kleptocrats in the Republican Democracy and the United States.
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From clones, family, abortion, terrorism, and the concept of the collective to economics, nuclear power, cap and trade, renewable energy, and the politics of climate change, Everest and Bedogne do something much needed and remarkably absent in today's media. They strip away the layers of liberal and conservative ideology to look at the most talked about topics of our time from the standpoint of what the politicians have forgotten--common sense. Brought...
18) Psychology today
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With it's intent to make psychology literature more accessible to the general public, the magazine focuses on behavior and covers a range of topics including psychology, neuroscience, relationships, sexuality, parenting, health (including from the perspectives of alternative medicine), work, and the psychological aspects of current affairs.
19) Vanity fair
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Vanity Fair is a monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs.
20) Weinstein
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How the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein allegedly sexually harassed and abused dozens of women over four decades. With allegations going back to Weinstein's early years, the film investigates the ways he and those around him tried to silence his accusers.
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