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Thicker Than Water
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Thicker Than WaterThicker Than Water

A compelling and beautifully written memoir about dark and shameful family secrets, and one young woman's pilgrimage to Australia to attempt to lay the past to rest. British journalist Cal Flyn was holidaying in her childhood home in the Highlands of Scotland, when she stumbled upon a dark family secret.
 
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Tags: family, Highlands, childhood, journalist, British, Thicker, Water
Autobiography: I Wonder As I Wander (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol 14)
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Autobiography: I Wonder As I Wander (Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Vol 14)

I Wonder As I Wander (1956), Hughes's second volume of autobiography, is a continuation from The Big Sea, detailing his global travels to such areas as Cuba, Haiti, Paris, the Soviet Union, and the Far East. It culminates in his 1937 coverage for the Baltimore Afro-American of the Spanish Civil War. The travelogue highlights the beginning of Hughes's career as a journalist, a further realization of his goal to live as a professional writer.
 
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Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War
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Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War

The battle on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945 was arguably the single most decisive factor of World War II, fixing the course of world history over the next half century. Now, drawing on sources newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reunification of Germany, historian and journalist Chris Bellamy presents the first full account of this deadly conflict.
 
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Tags: Soviet, World, historian, journalist, Chris
Cruel Intent by J.A. Jance
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Cruel Intent by J.A. JanceCruel Intent by J.A. Jance

On a dating site, singleatheart.com, bored housewives can find romance with married men looking for sex without strings. But these "married singles" are flirting with more than just their vows. At the heart of this seemingly innocent service, a vengeful computer hacker is playing games with people's lives...and deaths. Ex-television journalist Ali Reynolds just wants a break from excitement. In the midst of a remodel, the last thing she expects is a murder investigation that will stop the construction on her home. 

REUPLOAD NEEDED

 
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Tags: married, Reynolds, wants, break, excitement, Cruel, Jance, Intent, television, journalist
The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny
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The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things FunnyTwo guys. 19 experiments. Five continents. 91,000 miles. And a book that will forever change the way you think about humor.
Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist detail their epic quest to discover the secret behind what makes things funny.
Dr. Peter McGraw, founder of the Humor Research Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder, teamed up with journalist Joel Warner on a far-reaching search for the secret behind humor. Their journey spanned the globe, from New York to Japan, from Palestine to the Amazon. Meanwhile, the duo conducted their own humor experiments along the way—to wince-worthy, hilarious, and illuminating results.
 
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