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  • Gabrielle Bauer 2-Book Bundle

    Waltzing the Tango / Tokyo, My Everest

    "Canada's Bridget Jones" Gabrielle Bauer shares her journey of self-recognition in her memoirs of a life as a square peg in a round hole.Includes:Waltzing the Tango: A Late Boomer Dances to the Wrong TuneBauer's hilarious memoir tells the story of her life as a square peg in a round hole. It’s a tale most women will not only identify with, but will also laugh along with - occasionally with the ... Leer más

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  • Waltzing the Tango

    A Late Boomer Dances to the Wrong Tune

    Short-listed for the 2002 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-FictionSo you grow up as a member of the baby boom. You’re well-brought up, well-educated, and your parents have great expectations. And, yet, somehow, you just don’t feel you belong.Along the way, you find the right wrong boyfriends: the poet-husband, and bane of your mother’s existence, the married Japanese doctor. When love at last ... Leer más

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  • Tokyo, My Everest

    A Canadian Woman in Japan

    By either folly or design, Gabrielle Bauer finds herself on a plane bound for Tokyo, leaving her career, home, and husband behind.Co-winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Awards 1997. ... Leer más

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    From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, award nominations, and an ever-growing cadre of loyal fans. In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley's life in New York City-always teetering between the glamour of Manhattan parties, ... Leer más

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  • At A Loss For Words

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    In a “he said, she said” story, the writer always gets the last word.She is a writer, established and successful, with a full life and supportive friends. Then he walks into a book signing and back into her life 30 years after he broke her heart. This time, things seem different. The pair reconnects through emails, messages and fragments of conversation. But love leaves her with a nasty case of ... Leer más

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  • Learning to Bow

    An American Teacher in a Japanese School

    de Bruce Feiler ...
    Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and culminating in an all-night trek to the top of Mt. Fuji, Feiler teaches his students about ... Leer más

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  • The Lady and the Monk

    Four Seasons in Kyoto

    de Pico Iyer ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through ... Leer más

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  • I Feel Great About My Hands

    And Other Unexpected Joys of Aging

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  • What Remains

    Object Lessons in Love and Loss

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    From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating Sigmund Freud in a department store window during the holidays, climbing an icy mountain in cheap loafers, or learning primitive survival skills in the wilds of New Jersey, Rakoff clearly demonstrates how he doesn’t belong–nor does he try to.In ... Leer más

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  • Dave Barry Does Japan

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    "One of the funniest peole ever to tap tap on a PC."PHILADELPHIA INQUIRERNot since George Bush's memorable dinner with the Japanese prime minister has the Land of the Rising Sun seen the likes of a goodwill ambassador like Dave Barry. Join him as he belts out oldies in a karaoke bar, marries a geriatric geisha girl, takes his first bath in public, bows to just about everyone, and explores culture ... Leer más

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