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  Down the Garden Path

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  Winter Solstice: An Essay

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  1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round

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  At Home: A Short History of Private Life

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  At Bertram's Hotel (Miss Marple, #10)

  This old-fashioned London hotel may not be quite as reputable as it makes out!
  
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  Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the wor…

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  The Wood at Midwinter

  'A church is a sort of wood. A wood is a sort of church. They're the same thing really.'
  
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  Excellent Women

  One of Barbara Pym’s richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman’s daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of tho…

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  Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power

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  The Book of Delights: Essays

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  Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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  Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

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  How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older

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