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June 13 2013

Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life

Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life

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.

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June 10 2013

AV Quick Picks, June 2013

  • Wedding Planning for Dummies (DVD)
  • Martha's Wedding Ideas (DVD)
  • Wedding Dances (DVD)
  • The Wedding Collection (Music CD)
  • What I did for Love (Book on CD)

  • June 6 2013

    Paris: A Love Story

    Paris: A Love Story

    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.

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