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(Available) Banker to the Poor, Muhammad Yunus (Nonfiction)
Econ professor in Bangladesh becomes advocate for microlending to help the poorest of the poor improve their lives.
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(Available) If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, Bruce Campbell
Memoir by the guy from the Evil Dead movies.
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14565763
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(Taken) Sag Harbor, Colson Whitehead
Benji (15) and his brother Reggie (14) summer at Sag Harbor where they are left to their own devices during the week, their parents only coming out from the city on weekends, if at all. Identity and growing up in the se…
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RE: RE: (WITHDRAWN) My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante
Sorry, that one released yesterday.
And don't feel bad about taking more than one book! If it's offered, go for it.
My current list, after releases and dog destruction:
Born to Be Posthumous, Mark Dery
A Primate…
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(Available) Born to Be Posthumous, Mark Dery
Another "NOT reading it, want it?" - biography of the artist/writer Edward Gorey that just isn't doing it for me.
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17142415
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(Withdrawn) The Assistants, Camille Perri
A low-paid assistant to the head of a giant corporation accidentally gets a reimbursement check for an expense that had already been reversed on her credit card. The amount is so big that she could use it to clear her e…
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(WITHDRAWN) Young Jane Young, Gabrielle Zevin
Young woman is involved in a sex scandal with a political figure and must re-invent herself. Lots of woman-positive messages and characters.
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16580781/
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(Withdrawn) To Hellholes and Back, Chuck Thompson
Actually, NOT reading it, want it. Grift in Africa is boring me because it was just a topic in A Primate's Memoir (which was much more interesting), so I'm giving up on this one.
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(Withdrawn) A Primate's Memoir, Robert Sapolsky
Scientist's memoir of two decades studying baboons in Africa.
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17177815
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Released.
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(Taken) The Man Who Died Twice, Richard Osman
Second in the Thursday Murder Club. Four friends in a retirement community who like to revisit old unsolved crimes have now become involved in actual criminal investigation. This time, someone's ex, a spy, is in hiding…
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(Withdrawn) Lighthousekeeping, Jeanette Winterson
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12793063
On an island village in Scotland, the lighthousekeeper takes in an orphaned to girl to train as his successor, maintaining the light and preserving the stories of the area a…
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(WITHDRAWN) Sorta Like a Rock Star, Matthew Quick
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16101824/
Teen with dysfunctional mom spend their nights living in the school bus her mom drives during the day, trying to keep up appearances and the spirits of those around her.
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(Withdrawn) Six and a Half Deadly Sins, Colin Cotterill
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17163355
A Dr. Siri mystery. Most likely won't mail until next week. Please post here and PM your mailing info if interested.
Withdrawn due to no interest and released.
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(WITHDRAWN) My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14470436/
Childhood friends who were the brightest and most promising take markedly different trajectories in life due to money and opportunity.
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(Taken) Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17142417/
Ada is born containing more than one being. Includes dark themes of self-harm, suicide and abuse.
Reserved for claudiu.
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(Taken) The Keeper of Lost Things, Ruth Hogan
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17163357
Sentimental and predictable. Woman inherits her boss's home, with the caveat that she try to reunite the objects he has been picking up for years with the people who migh…
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(Taken) Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, by Satoshi Yagisawa
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17163360
Short book about a young woman recovering from a terrible breakup by moving into the apartment above her uncle's used book store and broadening her horizons.
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(Taken) Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
Strange and beautiful story of a man living in an unusual maze-like house.
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17141858
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🇺🇸 USA & Canada Wishlist Tag Game 🇨🇦 2024
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I tag Dove-i-Libri
with Michaelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling.
I have added a few titles to my wishlist, but wings or tag someone else okay too.
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(Available) The Hero of This Book, by Elizabeth McCracken
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17142418
Narrator reflects on family and identity and memory while wandering around London for a day following the death of her mother, with whom she had had similar trips in the p…
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(Available) The Old Woman with the Knife, by Gu Byeong-mo
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17106638
Elderly hitwoman considering retirement starts to suspect someone is trying to get rid of her.
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20th bookcrossing anniversary RABCK
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Congratulations!
Happy anniversary, and may there be many more. No entry.
Happy bookiversary! No entry.
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(Taken) Blacktop Wasteland, by S. A. Cosby
Action-packed, like a heist movie.
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/17142419
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Reserved for perryfran, mailed 03/16/24.
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(Withdrawn) The Infernals, by John Connolly
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16961490
Second of three, but they stand alone. YA book, teen boy and his dachshund battle demons from Hell. Fun, though rather gory at times (because demons from Hell). Chapter …
