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  • The Golden Flea

    A Story of Obsession and Collecting

    by Michael Rips ...
    A lovable oddball cast of characters is at the heart of this treasure-hunt through the last days of one of the greatest flea markets on earth. "[Rips] has humanity, humor and the gift of a limpid, agile, unpretentious prose style.… A captivating portrait.”—Ben Downing, Wall Street JournalAcross America and around the world, people wander through flea markets to search for lost treasures. For ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Cholera, Chloroform, and the Science of Medicine

    A Life of John Snow

    The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health. It modifies the conventional rags to riches portrait of John Snow by synthesizing fresh information about his early life from archival research and recent studies. It explores the intellectual roots of his ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Pasquale's Nose

    Idle Days in an Italian Town

    by Michael Rips ...
    Everywhere hailed for its quirkiness, its hilarity, its charm, Pasquale's Nose tells the story of a New York City lawyer who runs away to a small Etruscan village with his wife and new baby, and discovers a community of true eccentrics -- warring bean growers, vanishing philosophers, a blind bootmaker, a porcupine hunter -- among whom he feels unexpectedly at home. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Face Of A Naked Lady

    An Omaha Family Mystery

    by Michael Rips ...
    Nick Rips’s son had always known him as a conservative midwesterner, dedicated, affable, bland to the point of invisibility. Upon his father’s death, however, Michael Rips returned to his Omaha family home to discover a hidden portfolio of paintings — all done by his father, all of a naked black woman. So begins Michael Rips’s exquisitely humane second work of memoir, a gloriously funny yet deeply ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Uncontrolled Comedy, Volume 1

    Unabridged

    59 min

    Uncontrolled Comedy is Def Comedy Jam meets the legendary Apollo Theater, with edgy sketch, ingenious sets, and the ability to showcase and produce the next legendary comedian. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Golden Flea

    A Story of Obsession and Collecting

    by Michael Rips ...
    Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 3 min

    Across America and around the world, people wander through flea markets to search for lost treasures. For decades, no such market was more renowned than the legendary Chelsea flea market, which sprawled over several blocks and within an old garage on the west side of Manhattan. Visitors would trawl through booths crammed with vintage dresses, rare books, ancient swords, glass eyeballs, Afghan rugs ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Bruno, Chief of Police

    A Mystery of the French Countryside

    by Martin Walker ...
    Series Book 1 - Bruno, Chief of Police Series
    The first installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno.Meet Benoît Courrèges, aka Bruno, a policeman in a small village in the South of France. He’s a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rhythms of country life. He has a gun but never wears it; he has the power to arrest but never uses it. But then the murder of an elderly North ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The 50 Funniest American Writers

    An Anthology from Mark Twain to The Onion

    Edited by Andy Borowitz ...
    **New York Times BestsellerThe creator of The New Yorker’s long running satirical column, and “one of the funniest people in America,” pays tribute to comedic geniuses both past and present, including Mark Twain, George Saunders, Nora Ephron, and more (CBS Sunday Morning).**Library of America’s collection of hilarious stories, essays, and articles is an exclusive Who’s Who of the very best ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Round-Heeled Woman

    My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance

    by Jane Juska ...
    “Round-heeled” is an old-fashioned label for a woman who is promiscuous—someone who nowadays might be called “easy.” It’s a surprising way for a cultured English teacher with a passion for the novels of Anthony Trollope to describe herself, but then that’s just the first of many surprises to be found in this poignant, funny, utterly unique memoir. Jane Juska is a smart, energetic divorcée who ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Best American Essays 2013

    Series series The Best American Series
    Curated by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild, this volume shares intimate perspectives from some of today's most acclaimed writers.As Cheryl Strayed explains in her introduction, "the invisible, unwritten last line of every essay should be and nothing was ever the same again." The reader, in other words, should feel the ground shift, if even only a bit. In this edition of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life Stories

    Profiles from The New Yorker

    by David Remnick ...
    One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the twenties and thirties, such as Henry Luce and Isadora Duncan, and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD