Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
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In this book seventy-three-year-old Daniel Klein returns to an island he visited as a young man to contemplate the question of how to grow old. Klein's journey is precipitated by a visit to the dentist's office where he is told that dental implants would not age him as much as his other options. Thinking over the cost, pain and time involved, he cancels his dental appointments and travels to Hydra with his suitcase full of philosophy books. |
AV Quick Picks, June 2013
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Paris: A Love Story
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In a bittersweet and reflective memoir, author Kati Marton describes her exciting career as a foreign correspondant and her tumultuous life with second husband Peter Jennings and third husband U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke. Born in Hungary, she and her parents escaped the communist invasion of Hungary in the 1950s and fled to America but it was in Paris where she flourished. |



