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  2. Four to Score - Wikipedia

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    LC Class. PS3555.V2126 F6 1998. Preceded by. Three to Get Deadly. Followed by. High Five. Four to Score is the fourth novel by Janet Evanovich featuring the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her friends and family in New Jersey. Written in 1998, it is set mainly in Trenton, but also includes Point Pleasant and Atlantic City.

  3. 81 Words - Wikipedia

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    81 Words. " 81 Words " is an episode of the popular public radio program, This American Life, which is broadcast from Chicago Public Radio. This episode was originally aired January 18, 2002. The episode is narrated by Alix Spiegel, who was the recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award, the Livingston Award, and the Dupont Award.

  4. Levels of Life - Wikipedia

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    0-22-409815-2. Levels of Life is a 2013 memoir by English author Julian Barnes, dedicated to his wife Pat Kavanagh, a literary agent who died in 2008. [1] The book comprises three essays: [1] The Sin of Height: The first essay explores Anglo-French ballooning in the 19th century, concentrating on photographer and inventor Gaspard-Félix ...

  5. The Spectacles (short story) - Wikipedia

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    When he puts on the spectacles, he sees that she is a toothless old woman. He expresses horror at her appearance, and even more so when he learns she is 82 years old. She begins a rant about a very foolish descendant of hers, one Napoleon Buonaparte Froissart. He realizes that she is his great-great-grandmother.

  6. On Being Ill - Wikipedia

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    Design by Vanessa Bell. On Being Ill is an essay by Virginia Woolf, which seeks to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle. Woolf writes about the isolation, loneliness, and vulnerability that disease may bring and how it can make even the maturest of adults feel like children again.

  7. Stephanie Land - Wikipedia

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    Website. Official website. Stephanie Land (born September 1978) is an American author and public speaker. [1][2][3] She is best known for writing Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (2019), which was adapted to television miniseries Maid (2021) for Netflix. [4] Her second memoir, Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and ...

  8. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby - Wikipedia

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    The essay that many critics have considered the strongest is "The Last American Hero," a profile of Junior Johnson, an early star of the stock car racing world and NASCAR. In looking at a single day at the races, Wolfe also examines the rise of race day culture, how it is a stark contrast to the Grand Prix motor racing popular in Europe.

  9. Pharmakon (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The novel Pharmakon is divided into three parts. The first part of the novel, titled "Book 1", takes place in the 1950s and centers around Will Friedrich; a middle aged, nontenured professor of psychology at Yale University. Though extremely smart and known around campus for his ability to take a set of data and "calculate the standard ...