Marie




Marie is head book buyer at Vroman's.  She is hiding.

 

 

 

 

 

Cutting for Stone: A novel (Hardcover)

By Abraham Verghese
$26.95
ISBN-13: 9780375414497
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Published: Knopf, 02/01/2009
This is a rich, gripping, and ambitious narrative about abandoned twin brothers and the most attaching group of doctors and nuns that becomes their family, and how they each try to restore the balance of what was once greatly disturbed by love, lost and unrequited.  Set in the unique locale of Ethiopia in the waning days of Selassie, and viewed through the prism of modern surgery and medicine, the reader is offered a wholly original novel brimming with generosity, sorrow, and a profound life spirit.  I cannot recommend it enough!

Recommended by Marie

Falling Man (Hardcover)

By Don DeLillo
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781416546023
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Published: Scribner, 04/01/2007

Through the testimony of a 9/11 survivor and the deep impact his return makes on the lives of his estranged wife and son, DeLillo succeeds at revisiting the tragedy from an emotionally renewed standpoint. It's a revelatory approach and a stunning achievement.

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Eucalyptus (Paperback)

By Murray Bail
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780312427313
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Published: Picador, 08/01/2007

A love story like no other, where to win the heart of a young woman, a man proceeds to tell her about each and every eucalyptus tree on the large and beautiful property of his father. It is a delightful tale of quiet understanding and respectful discovery, and by the end of it, the reader is quite enchanted.

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The Nimrod Flipout: Stories (Paperback)

By Etgar Keret
$12.00
ISBN-13: 9780374222437
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 04/01/2006

This is the other Israel. Keret's collection of short uncanny tales gives voice to the greater population of the plain an unknown younger people, the antiheroes, the regular nobodies of a high-profile country. The stories are crisp, rich in tone, sometimes absurdist, but always very touching. A refreshing discover! P.S. Check out Keret's novel Jetlag.

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The Equations: Icons of Knowledge (Hardcover)

By Sander Bais
$18.95
ISBN-13: 9780674019676
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Published: Harvard University Press, 11/01/2005
The beauty of abstraction right at your fingertips! Written in a clear and understandable way, from the standpoint of all possible approaches, this is the book I have been waiting for. To reacquaint oneself with familiar laws as to discover new symbolic representations, this handy and elegant book is just perfect! Recommended by Marie

Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Hardcover)

By Laurence Bergreen
$28.95
ISBN-13: 9781400043453
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Published: Knopf, 10/01/2007

In his inimitable voice, Bergreen, just as he did with Magellan in his previous book, will lead you through the voyages of Marco Polo with renewed understanding of the 13th Century world and a keen insight into the character of this young, intrepid Venetian merchant.

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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: 23 Questions from Great Philosophers (Hardcover)

By Leszek Kolakowski
$20.00
ISBN-13: 9780465004997
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Published: Basic Books, 11/01/2007

In one handsome and handy little book, you have the many big questions that underscore our lives and which have obsessed many thinkers of the Western world: Can we know anything? Is the world good? Do we have free will? This is a wonderful compendium that distills the debates of the great philosophers and ultimately informs us on how we lead our lives and place ourselves in this bigger world.

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