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Carolyne Roehm is one of those rare individuals who built one successful career and later embarked on another.

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By Bill Bryson
Broadway Books, 544 pages
Available at Powerbooks


If you’re sitting down while reading this, consider the following: you’re not really sitting in that chair or lounging on that sofa. The trillions of atoms that compose your body are actually hovering an angstrom or two above the chair or sofa on which you "sit," your electrons constantly being repelled from closer contact by its electrons.
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By Bill Bryson
Broadway Books, 331 pages

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The Secret History of the Geisha
By Lesley Downer
Broadway Books
288 pages
Available at Goodwill Bookstore
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By Bill Bryson
Broadway Books, 544 pages
Available at Powerbooks


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Broadway Books, 331 pages

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Broadway Books
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Available at Goodwill Bookstore
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