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Jennifer Egan

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The A...

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Dan Egan

**New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeWinner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award"Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review**The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fr...

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Timothy Egan

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A Chicago Review of Books Best Book of the Year • A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year • A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist"With narrative elan, Egan gives us a riveting saga of how a predatory con man became one of the most powerful people in 1920s America, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Kla...

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Timothy Egan

In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story of the Dust Bowl rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.The dust storms that terrorized America’s High Plains during the Great Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding bla...

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Cecilia Egan

Most people know very little about the care of the native semi-aquatic turtles that are sold throughout Australia as pets. The majority of these animals die when they are very young, mainly due to the ignorance or laziness of their owners. Don't be one of these owners. Your pet will live a long time if you do your part by devoting a little time to its welfare.

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Timothy Egan

In the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the life of one heroic man.A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony for life. But two years later he was "back f...

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Jennifer Egan

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Part horror tale, part mystery, part romance ... utterly fantastic.”—O, The Oprah Magazine • The bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reun...

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Timothy Egan

National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time.On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and ti...

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Kerry Egan

**"A poetic and philosophical and brave and uplifting meditation on how important it is to make peace and meaning of our lives while we still have them.” *–*Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat Pray Love"Illuminating, unflinching and ultimately inspiring... A book to treasure.” –People Magazine**A hospice chaplain passes on wisdom on giving meaning to life, from those taking leave of it.As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan did...

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Colleen Egan

Imagine sitting in a maximum security prison, wrongly convicted of murdering a woman you've never met. This was the fate of Andrew Mallard. His incredible story is a battle for justice, truth and, ultimately, freedom.'Even great courts and independent judges can sometimes get things wrong. Reading this book, we should resolve to strengthen our defences against miscarriages of justice.'The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, past Justice of the High Court of Australia...

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Timothy Egan

**From "the world's greatest tour guide," a deeply-researched, captivating journey through the rich history of Christianity and the winding paths of the French and Italian countryside that will feed mind, body, and soul (New York Times)."What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed account of his pilgrimage will have you wondering whether we should all embark on such a journey, either of the body, the soul or, as in Egan's case, both." --Cokie Robe...

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Sophie Egan

A radically practical guide to making food choices that are good for you, others, and the planet.Is organic really worth it? Are eggs ok to eat? If so, which ones are best for you, and for the chicken—Cage-Free, Free-Range, Pasture-Raised? What about farmed salmon, soy milk, sugar, gluten, fermented foods, coconut oil, almonds? Thumbs-up, thumbs-down, or somewhere in between?Using three criteria—Is it good for me? Is it good for others? Is it good f...