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The Hand That Feeds You

The Hand That Feeds You

2015 ·
·3.33·5,785 Ratings ·273 Pages
“ The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. ” ― Chinese Proverb
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    In 1970, Sara Ehrenreich boards a small plane and returns to New York City with much fanfare; she will be featured in Life magazine. She has not left Ta'un'uu–the South Seas island upon which she and her husband, Philip, were marooned during a storm–i
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    ·3.52·915 Ratings
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    2006·
    ·4.26·5,168 Ratings
    The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel gathers together the complete work of a writer whose voice is as singular and astonishing as any in American fiction. Hempel, fiercely admired by writers and reviewers, has a sterling reputation that is based on four ve
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    1995·
    ·4.15·2,582 Ratings
    It is always "earthquake weather" in Amy Hempel's California, a landscape where everything can change without warning. Traditional resources—home, parents, lovers, friends, even willpower—are not dependable. And so the characters in these short, compe
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    2005·
    ·3.99·1,147 Ratings
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    1998·
    ·4.04·1,215 Ratings
    Critically acclaimed master of the short story Amy Hempel’s Tumble Home is narrated by people with skewed visions of home. Not exactly crazy, they become obsessed and irrational as their inner logic leads them astray. In the title novella, a woman livin
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    1995·
    ·4.18·786 Ratings
    Here the very talented Hempel works in a hard-bitten, often mannered mode with material made familiar in her first book, Reasons to Live . The stories in her new collection follow people through crises and emergencies, from traffic accidents to mastectomi
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    1999·
    ·4.03·187 Ratings
    Now in paperback, an irresistible gift for dog lovers: poems from the dogs' point of view, written by the well known writers and poets who love them.List of contributors:Edward Albee,  Jennifer Allen,  Danny Anderson,  Lynda Barry,  Rick Bass,  
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