The Ordinary

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William Boyd
Ordinary Thunderstorms: A Novel
“William Boyd seems singularly blessed with both an innate love of storytelling and the talent to render those stories in swift, confident prose.” — The New York Times From William Boyd, award-winning author of Brazzaville Beach and Restless , comes a stunning literary mystery about crime a...
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Amie Thomasson
Ordinary Objects
Arguments that ordinary inanimate objects such as tables and chairs, sticks and stones, simply do not exist have become increasingly common and increasingly prominent. Some are based on demands for parsimony or for a non-arbitrary answer to the special composition question; others arise from prohibi...
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William W. Hagen
Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840 (New Studies in European History)
This book is about ordinary villagers and landlords (Junkers) in the Prussian-German countryside, from the late middle ages to the nineteenth century. It is distinguished by its concentration on first-person testimony, and focus on the lives and fortunes of ordinary people during the era of the rise...
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William Boyd
Ordinary Thunderstorms: A Novel
One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, ...
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Neil Roos
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: Social Histories of Accommodation
How were whites implicated in and shaped by apartheid culture and society, and how did they contribute to it? In Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society , historian Neil Roos traces the lives of ordinary white people in South Africa during the apartheid years, beginning in 1948 when the National Party...
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Jeremy Michael Rios
Ordinary Prayer: Encountering God Through Our Everyday Needs
Everybody struggles with prayer. It is one of the most difficult things we are commanded to do. In fact, if we are not careful, we will allow a host of excuses to keep us from obeying God’s command to pray—that is, to ask Him for things; to pray in petitions. Against this difficulty, Ordinary Pr...
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Judith L. Mitrani
Ordinary People and Extra-ordinary Protections (The New Library of Psychoanalysis)
Many people come to analysis appearing quite 'ordinary' on the surface. However, once below that surface, we often come into contact with something quite unexpected: 'extra-ordinary protections' created to keep at bay any awareness of deeply traumatic happenings occurring at some point in life. Judi...
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Barry Magid
Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychoanalysis
Is meditation an escape from--or a solution to--our psychological problems? Is the use of antidepressants counter to spiritual practice? Does a psychological approach to meditation reduce spirituality to "self-help"? What can Zen and psychoanalysis teach us about the problems of the mind and sufferi...
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Jonathan Kozol
Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope
  Jonathan Kozol's books have become touchstones of the American conscience. In Ordinary Resurrections, he spends four years in the South Bronx with children who have become his friends at a badly underfunded but enlightened public school. A fascinating narrative of daily urban life, Ordinary Re...
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Judith Guest
Ordinary People: A Novel
One of the great bestseller of our time: the novel that inspired Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning film starring Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore In Ordinary People , Judith Guest’s remarkable first novel, the Jarrets are a typical American family. Calvin is a determined, successful provid...
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Andrew Farmer
Ordinary Greatness: A Life of Elias Boudinot
“In the era of the American Revolution, Elias Boudinot was friendly, generous, welcoming, a problem-solver, a man of faith, a person you’d enjoy getting to know.” ―Jonathan Den Hartog, Samford University You won’t find this American Founder on a coin or a Broadway musical. But Elias Boud...
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Pam Flowers
Ordinary Dogs, Extraordinary Friendships: Stories of Loyalty, Courage, and Compassion
A polar bear races across the sea ice, heading straight for the dogs. The terrified team barks furiously as the bear clamps down on Hank's neck! Hank freeze and then ..... Are dogs capable of courage or even good judgement? The eleven stories in  Ordinary Dogs Extraordinary Friendships  prove that...
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William Alexander
Ordinary Recovery: Mindfulness, Addiction, and the Path of Lifelong Sobriety
The key to ongoing freedom from alcoholism or any other kind of addiction is right before us, here and now, in the ordinary and perfect present moment. The problem is that addictions are often the result of our efforts to escape living in the present in the first place. Bill Alexander’s unique app...
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Richard Bradley
ORDINARY BOY: Life was about to become anything but ordinary
Sixth form is supposed to be about studying, right? But for Danny, it's about to become so much more. It's about falling in love, navigating the thrill and confusion of a first kiss, and experiencing emotions he's never had to deal with before. When Jamie smiles at him across the crowded common room...
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Nicole Sealey
Ordinary Beast: Poems
ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF 2017 A striking, full-length debut collection from Virgin Islands-born poet Nicole Sealey The existential magnitude, deep intellect, and playful subversion of St. Thomas-born, Florida-raised poet Nic...
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Beth Smith
Ordinary Jesus: For the Moments Between the Miracles
He never wrote a book. He didn't own a home. He took naps during storms, made breakfast on the beach, and walked dusty roads with ordinary people. And somehow... He changed the world. Ordinary Jesus is a heartfelt and down-to-earth devotional that looks at the quieter moments of Christ's life, t...
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Linda H Williams
Ordinary Days
When Lives Intersect, The Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary! Most of us look forward to exciting events, often bypassing the everyday ones, and labeling them as mundane. But according to Linda H. Williams, Co-founder of With Love From Jesus (WLFJ) Ministries and author, it's the ordinary days that take...
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Lisa Hickman
Ordinary Magic: Little Vignettes from the Big Apple
“I took a bite of the cookie and smiled. It wasn’t even noon and already this frigid, freaky Friday had been full of sweet surprises—which could only mean that even when Mercury is in retrograde, it really is my world,” Lisa Hickman writes in Ordinary Magic. In this debut collection of vigne...
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Jane Smiley
Ordinary Love and Good Will
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres —and “one of her generation’s most eloquent chroniclers of ordinary familial love” ( The New York Times ) — comes two exquisite twin novellas that chronicle the difficult choices that reshape the lives of two very different famili...
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Michael Horton
Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World
Radical. Crazy. Transformative and restless. Every word we read these days seems to suggest there’s a “next-best-thing,” if only we would change our comfortable, compromising lives. In fact, the greatest fear most Christians have is boredom—the sense that they are missing out on the radical ...
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