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Born round
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Frank Bruni |
Bruni, restaurant critic for "The New York Times," tells his heartbreaking and hilarious account of his lifelong, often painful struggle with food. |
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Heft
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Liz Moore |
Arthur weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Kel navigates life as a poor kid in a rich school, and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball career. … |
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Presto!
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Penn Jillette |
An unconventional weight loss tale from an unconventional personality--magician Penn Jillette tells how he lost 100 pounds with his trademark outrageous sense of humor and biting social commentary th… |
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The metamorphosis of Mervin Applewhite
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Ted DeRochi |
This is a story of a young man whose ideas for Halo Shampoo, a new cologne for Speidel, a different approach to Coca Cola's Fresca, and a new cigarette from P. Lorillard, bring him from obscurity to … |
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Alive again
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Scott Mitchell |
"Scott Mitchell was a ticking time bomb. At age 46, the former record-setting NFL quarterback topped the scale at 366 pounds. He became a contestant on the reality TV show The Biggest Loser: Glory Da… |
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Born round
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Frank Bruni |
The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough after decades of wrestling with his weightFrank Bruni was born round. Round as in… |
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The Memory of Running
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Ron McLarty |
This debut novel is the story of Smithson Ide who grieves the death of his parents by getting on a Raleigh bicycle in his funeral suit and pedalling across America. |
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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Junot Díaz |
Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he kee… |
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