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	<description>Climbing Mount TBR, One Book at a Time</description>
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		<title>Double Falsehood by William Shakespeare (et al.)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the back cover: “On December 1727 an intriguing play called Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers was presented for production by Lewis Theobald, who had it published in January 1728 after a successful run at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. The title page to the published version claims that the play was &#8216;Written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise Lost by John Milton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Penguin: “In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the publisher: “Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive young man, falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Though he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion and his infatuation torments him to the point of despair. The first great &#8216;confessional&#8217; novel, it draws both on Goethe&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readerofthestack.com/the-sorrows-of-young-werther-by-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe</link>
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		<title>The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John LeCarré</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the back cover: “In this classic, John le Carré&#8217;s third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he created a world unlike any previously experienced in suspense fiction. With unsurpassed knowledge culled from his years in British Intelligence, le Carré brings to light the shadowy dealings of international espionage in the tale [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readerofthestack.com/the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold-by-john-lecarre</link>
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		<title>Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the publisher: “Mary Barton, the daughter of disillusioned trade unionist, rejects her working-class lover Jem Wilson in the hope of marrying Henry Carson, the mill owner’s son, and making a better life for herself and her father. But when Henry is shot down in the street and Jem becomes the main suspect, Mary finds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catch-22 by Joseph Heller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the back cover: “Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off Italy, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readerofthestack.com/catch-22-by-joseph-heller</link>
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		<title>The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the publisher: “The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright’s eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his ‘charming’ friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readerofthestack.com/the-woman-in-white-by-wilkie-collins</link>
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		<title>Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the back cover: “Why do we look the way we do? Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the ‘fish with hands,’ tells the story of our bodies as you&#8217;ve never heard it before. By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readerofthestack.com/your-inner-fish-by-neil-shubin</link>
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		<title>The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the back cover: “‘For God&#8217;s sake, come!’ Unfortunately, by the time Hercule Poirot received Monsieur Renauld&#8217;s urgent plea, the millionaire was already dead—stabbed in the back, lying in a freshly dug grave on the golf course of his adjoining Merlinville estate. There&#8217;s no lack of suspects: his wife, whose dagger served as the weapon; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readerofthestack.com/the-murder-on-the-links-by-agatha-christie</link>
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		<title>Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the jacket: “At the heart of Michael Ignatieff&#8217;s disquieting novel of a woman&#8217;s descent into illness are the tangled threads of a family, strained by tragedy yet still tenuously connected. An anguished philosophy professor watches his dying mother&#8217;s measured steps into the mysterious depths of neurological illness: the misplaced glasses, kitchen catastrophes, and anecdotes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readerofthestack.com/scar-tissue-by-michael-ignatieff</link>
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