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Hannah Holmes (born 1963) is an American writer, journalist, essayist, and science commentator for Science Live (Discovery Channel) and radio shows such as Maine Things Considered. She has published four books, most recently Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality (Random House, 2011). She has published articles online and in magazines including Sierra, New York Times Magazine, L.A.Times Magazine, Outside, Islands, and Escape. She earned a B.A. from University of Southern Maine in 1988, and lives with her husband in Portland, Maine. Published works Quirk: : Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality, Random House, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4000-6840-1 The Well-dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself, Random House, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8129-7629-8 Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005, ISBN 978-1-59691-091-1 The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things, Wiley-Blackwell, 2001 References External links Essay: Discovery Channel: The Skinny On… > Why Asparagus Makes Your Pee Stink > by Hannah Holmes Audio: Maine Humanities Council > Interview with Hannah Holmes by Charlotte Albright Review: Boston Green Scene > Sunday, May 03, 2009 > Review by Daniel E. Walsh of Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn by Hannah Holmes Author’s Official Website. Discover the Hannah Holmes popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Hannah Holmes books.
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The Homeric Hymns
Homer & Jules CashfordComposed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. They recount the key episodes in the lives of ...
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My Brother Michael
Mary StewartThe original queen of the pageturner Mary Stewart leads her readers on a journey of murder and deceit through the dusty roads of midcentury Greece in this tale that fans of Agatha ...
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Do BIG
Hannah V HolmesDo you want to do big and amazing things but just aren’t sure how to get there yet? You’re not alone but you are on the right track… Learn how to STOP procrastinating and START ful...
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Classical Literary Criticism
T. DorschThe works collected in this volume have profoundly shaped the history of criticism in the Western world: they created much of the terminology still in use today and formulated endu...
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The Moon-Spinners
Mary StewartTransport yourself to the idyllic hills of midcentury Crete in this tale of peril and intrigue, from the original queen of romantic suspense and author of Madam, Will You Talk? 'Ma...
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The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
G. K. ChestertonThe colossus of crime leaned over to the little rustic priest with a sort of sudden interest.'You have heard of it?' he asked. 'Where have you heard of it?''Well, I mustn't tell yo...
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The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works
Thomas Nashe & J. SteaneWritten in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabeth...
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Better Left Unsent
Lia LouisSo many ways to torpedo your career and your love life… So little time.A woman accidentally reveals all her secrets in this witty and charming novel from the author of Eight Perfec...
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
Leo Tolstoy & David McDuff'The Kreutzer Sonata' is the selflacerating confession of a man consumed by sexual jealousy and eaten up by shame and eventually driven to murder his wife. The story caused a sensa...
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The Withered Arm and Other Stories 1874-1888
Thomas Hardy"See if she is dark or fair, and if you can, notice if her hands be white; if not, see if they look as though she had ever done housework, or are milker's hands like mine."So Rhoda...
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Life Is A Dream
Gyula Krúdy & John BatkiLife is a Dream (1931) is Gyula Krudy's magical collection of ten short stories. Creating a world where editors shoot themselves after a hard day's brunching, men attend duels inco...
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Birding with Benefits
Sarah T. DubbA divorcee embarks on her “year of yes” and crosses paths with a shy but sensitive birdwatcher who changes her life in this charming romcom that is perfect for fans of Christina La...
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Intimate Enemies
Juliet HastingsThere's something sexy about detectives and it's time crime novels admitted it. Crime & Passion novels are fastpaced murder mysteries in the British tradition but the detecti...
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Plain Tales from the Hills
Rudyard KiplingOriginally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For t...
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Two on a Tower
Thomas Hardy & Sally ShuttleworthTWO ON A TOWER (1882) is a tale of starcrossed love in which Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers against the background of the stellar universe. The unhappily married ...
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The Ivy Tree
Mary StewartMary Stewart, one of the great British storytellers of the 20th century, transports her readers to rural Northumberland for this tale of romance, ambition, and deceit a perfect fi...
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The Uncanny
Sigmund Freud & David McLintockAn extraordinary collection of thematically linked essays, including THE UNCANNY, SCREEN MEMORIES and FAMILY ROMANCES.Leonardo da Vinci fascinated Freud primarily because he was ke...
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles DickensCharles Dickens's final, unfinished novel has inspired generations of speculation ...Choirmaster John Jasper is a man of deep hypocrisy. His public reputation is flawless yet priva...
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The Dunwich Horror
H. P. LovecraftDeadly forces are about to be awakened …In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncan...
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens'Among the most powerful things Dickens ever did in fiction' GuardianGreed has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and nam...
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The Nun
Denis DiderotIn 1758 Diderot's friend the Marquis de Croismare became interested in the cause célèbre of a nun who was appealing to be allowed to leave a Paris convent. Less than a year later, ...
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Selected Tales
Edgar Allan PoeSince their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created m...
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The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories
Henry James & Frank KermodeThe stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James’s writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in ...
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This May Help You Understand the World
Lawrence PotterThis is a life raft for anyone who finds themselves floundering amidst a sea of tensecond soundbites, wishing they had a better grasp of complexities of world politics and global i...
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Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works
Aphra BehnWhen Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surin...
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Wildfire at Midnight
Mary StewartThe tense, twisty murder mystery which will have you on the edge of your seat, from the author of Madam, Will You Talk? /font size> 'Mary Stewart is magic' New York Times Follow...